What classic board games did you grow up with?

[SithSolo1]

Monopoly, Mouse Trap, Fireball Island, Don't Break the Ice, Battleship, Tornado Rex, Hungry Hippos, Trouble, Chess, Checkers, probably others but its been decades.

 

[KeithTalent]

Oh man, how did I forget about Risk? Ukraine is strong!

KT

 

[moonbogg]

Game of Life
Monopoly
Strawberry Shortcake
Connect Four
Kerplunk
battleship
Mouse trap

Others...

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Risk taught me everything I needed to know about being a man. I spent three very uncomfortable years holed up in Indonesia whittling tiny men out of durian to fortify my position before I realized that maybe I should take life lessons from something other than a glorified dictator simulator.

 

[norseamd]

Monopoly
Battleship
Scrabble

And I have only had much time playing Stratego but it is one of my favorite games of all time.

 

[smackababy]

I started off with Mousetrap, Battleship, Sorry, such. Eventually, went into the most strategic games, but my friends often didn't enjoy them due to being rather dim witted. I was reserved to playing chess against my computer, and Chessmaster 3000 was fucking hard! Also, the Hoyle casino games always intrigued me, but I am a degenerate gambler.

Always had a soft spot for Scrabble though. Still play Words with Friends almost every day.

 

[Thebobo]

 

[SphinxnihpS]

 

[Mayne]

those manuals bring back memories.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

most of the ones listed above.

slightly off topic but have any of you tried playing Eat Poop You Cat? It's a free "game" you can play with your friends in place of something like pictionary. Just read about it.

http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/eat-poop-you-cat-telestrations-review/

EPYC is a game that plays best with a large number of players: We played with nine, though I think the more that you can have, the better. Looking through our own drawings from our game, I think that nine players gives enough time that most every drawing is guaranteed to go through some sort of funny mutation. Our game took 40 minutes to create and play all the way through, though overall playtime will vary with number of players.

Each player needs a pack of papers with sheets equal to the number of people playing. On the first page of the pack, each player writes a phrase or sentence of their choosing. It can be anything, but it should be something that can at least be somewhat represented visually.

You could choose "The bear ran for president and lost" or "cats playing rock band on the wii" or even something as straightforward as "the ball bounces down the stairs."

Then, you hand your sentence to the player on your left, and they draw your sentence on the next page of the book. They finish that drawing and then pass it left so that the next player can only see the drawing that they just drew. That next player captions it and passes it so only the caption is visible to the next player.

Since you're also seeing one page, you have no idea what the item was originally. You may have been trying to draw a singing cowboy, but the person seeing your drawing might think that you were trying to draw Yankee Doodle.

 

[alkemyst]

It was more a broad game called Doctor.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Ok, I'll fill in the most obvious omission: Candy Land

 

[JTsyo]

Careers was what we played the most. Checkers and Connect 4 probably was played more but I don't consider them board games.

 

[Linflas]

Sorry!

 

[DigDog]

d&d doesn't count.
i had that bug too, but we played boardgames when the muggles were around. we played rpgs otherwise.

..ooh now i itch to make a "what rpgs did you play as a child" thread.

aaaaand here it is; i couldn't hold myself. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=36856866

 

[purbeast0]

my favorite by far was torpedo run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLn6qG0xFOo

closest 2nd favorite (or tied) was crossfire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

 

[DigDog]

omg, how could i forget: