Some really old board games

risumon · January 2009

OMG I remember fireball island. That game was sweet.

What was the game with cannons and catapults? I don't ever remember actually playing it, just setting shit up and shooting at them.

Also, drunk risk is the best board game ever.

Wetsun · January 2009

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

Wetsun wrote: »

The Omega Virus. It is 16 or 17 years old.

Spoiler:

Code..............two...two

dude... davoid and I were just talking about it

on the same page

it is awesome

I ctrl+f'd "omega" and got nothing. Also I have a picture which makes it okay.

Spoiler:

Szechuanosaurus · January 2009

We used to have a sort of card game where are the cards were modular pieces of space ships and you had to make these big ships. I can't remember why or what the winning goal of the game was but man the ships looked awesome in that 1970s sci-fi novel cover illustration / battlestar galactica sort of way.

Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.

I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.

ThatDudeOverThere · January 2009

I'm gonna go in the exact opposite direction and talk about a fairly new game that I was recently introduced to:

Dominion.

It's this sort of economy/military game thing with cards

it's pretty rad

Szechuanosaurus · January 2009

My sister gave us a new board game called Stonehenge which is actually a variety of different games all designed to be played on the same board. She got herself the Age of Empires board game and the intention was to start getting together for boardgame nights but it never happened and I haven't even opened Stonehenge yet.

QuestionMarkMan · January 2009

man I played War of the Ring a couple months ago

that was like Risk but 5 times more complicated

Seg · January 2009

thorgot wrote: »

yes to hero quest

also shogun

the simple-looking boardgame with the 2 hour moves

I saw that and wanted to play it, but didn't get a chance until a few years later when my brother and I found Samurai Swords at a Toys R' Us.

edit: Wait a moment, I was just looking at Wikipedia, is that the 1986 version or the new Shogun game from 2006?

redfenix · January 2009

I have lord of the rings risk also

and got a new version of classic risk for christmas
and i live with my wife and 2 stepdaughters

guess how many of them want to play risk, ever

thorgot · January 2009

Seg wrote: »

thorgot wrote: »

yes to hero quest

also shogun

the simple-looking boardgame with the 2 hour moves

I saw that and wanted to play it, but didn't get a chance until a few years later when my brother and I found Samurai Swords at a Toys R' Us.

edit: Wait a moment, I was just looking at Wikipedia, is that the 1986 version or the new Shogun game from 2006?

i might have accidentally posted the new one

i meant the old one, which was also called samurai swords

MrMonroe · January 2009

Ok, bidding on a complete copy of Hero Quest now. Wish me luck.

redfenix · January 2009

why does catan cost so much?

MrMonroe · January 2009

Doesn't seem to be that terrible.

Clint Eastwood · January 2009

ObiFett wrote: »

Anyone remember this game?

You would run your dudes along this board:

Spoiler:

and try to get the crystal. You could go through caves and over bridges. Then every once in a while you would get to roll a FRIGGIN FIREBALL down a path and cause death and destruction.

This is where the fireballs came from:

Spoiler:

Greatest board game ever.

EDIT: DAMN. I AM SO SLOOW. I GOT BEATED.

Holy shit yes

I used to love this game so much it was almost unhealthy.

Dangerou-Dave · January 2009

visiblehowl wrote: »

Cold Salmon and Hatred wrote: »

stratego is almost the greatest board game of all time

second only to pokemon monopoly

Except the new version has 1 being the Scout and like 9 being the Marshal or whatever.

I guess having the 1 be the most powerful piece on the board was just too fucking complicated for some people.

It really throws me off when I'm playing the new version.

As silly as it seems...this really bothered me, haha. I was like...wait, so 3's are miners and...and what the hell?

Val · January 2009

visiblehowl wrote: »

ASimPerson wrote: »

Diplomacy

This game ruins friendships.

Which is half the fun of the game. Also the BSG boardgame is pretty great, played it a few times since christmas.

Seg · January 2009

VÃ l wrote: »

visiblehowl wrote: »

ASimPerson wrote: »

Diplomacy

This game ruins friendships.

Which is half the fun of the game. Also the BSG boardgame is pretty great, played it a few times since christmas.

Once some friends of mine wanted to play a long term game of Diplomacy. We were supposed to spend the week working on deals with each other and then on Saturday everyone turns in their move.

It died off after a few moves.

Dangerou-Dave · January 2009

redfenix wrote: »

I have lord of the rings risk also

and got a new version of classic risk for christmas
and i live with my wife and 2 stepdaughters

guess how many of them want to play risk, ever

Damn, finding people to play is always a chore.

There are some places around here, little comic shops and stuff, where people meet once a week to play board games. If you get desperate you could probably try one of those? I personally have never been...

Stationary · January 2009

Man I know this has mostly been older games but can we talk about

This is maybe the best team based board game I've ever played and everything about it is fantastic.

Also A Game of Thrones is really good if you like Risk.

Fishman · January 2009

Meta T. Dust wrote: »

Talisman is the one and only

and some others I guess

This. But I miss my expansion pack with the random endings.

I loaned it to a good friend who was usually pretty good about those things, but it never came back and is now in the possession of an old school mate I haven't seen in 10+ years.

Oh well, I still have the City and Timescape expansions, I guess.

thorgot wrote: »

Seg wrote: »

thorgot wrote: »

yes to hero quest

also shogun

the simple-looking boardgame with the 2 hour moves

I saw that and wanted to play it, but didn't get a chance until a few years later when my brother and I found Samurai Swords at a Toys R' Us.

edit: Wait a moment, I was just looking at Wikipedia, is that the 1986 version or the new Shogun game from 2006?

i might have accidentally posted the new one

i meant the old one, which was also called samurai swords

Yes. 1986 version is awesome.

I used to play it with my regular opponent for Axis and Allies, as well. Sadly, he had some fairly useless house rules which made A&A less interesting (Infinite capacity transports), so we switched to this more or less exclusively after a while.

MrMonroe · January 2009

Is that based on the book in the George R.R. Martin's series?

Is there as much incest in the board game as the book?

Edit: also, I played A&A for a year or two with my buddies before we realized you weren't allowed to place your newly purchased reinforcements anywhere on the map.

Dangerou-Dave · January 2009

Jesus, two sentences into the wiki page

Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell and the North, executes a man of the Night's Watch who has betrayed his vows and fled from the Wall. His sons Robb and Bran, his bastard son Jon Snow, and his ward Theon Greyjoy all attend. After the beheading, Robb finds a dead direwolf (the symbol of House Stark), killed by the antlers of a stag (the symbol of House Baratheon), which had given birth to five pups before it died.

Also, according to the page you linked, the board game is based off the book.

MrMonroe · January 2009

I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.

It's pretty silly.

Stationary · January 2009

MrMonroe wrote: »

Is that based on the book in the George R.R. Martin's series?

Is there as much incest in the board game as the book?

Yes it is based on the books you take control of one of the houses and try to take over as much of the map as you can in 10 turns.

Each turn consists of turning over 3 cards that each cause different things to happen ranging from fighting for turn order to not being able to play certain orders for that turn. After that you place orders and then execute them and man it is just so much fun to fuck someones entire turn over with one raid order.

A Dabble Of Thelonius · January 2009

MrMonroe wrote: »

I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.

It's pretty silly.

That's, that's not right at all.

Anywho. I found an incredibly old Chinese Checkers set at a yard sale once. It had metal marbles.

Seg · January 2009

MrMonroe wrote: »

I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.

It's pretty silly.

You didn't read it then, I am geussing someone told you about it. Someone who is shitty at comprehending written stories.

Stationary · January 2009

Yeah I hadn't even seen that but that is not what happened at all.

MrMonroe · January 2009

Seg wrote: »

MrMonroe wrote: »

I just remember a scene where some kid climbs the outside of a large castle to see his mother fucking her brother and is so surprised that he falls to his death.

It's pretty silly.

You didn't read it then, I am geussing someone told you about it. Someone who is shitty at comprehending written stories.

I read it perhaps nine or ten years ago. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else.

Bugman · January 2009

best board game hands down:

MrMonroe · January 2009

Wow, that looks awful.

I'm trying to find pictures of the Anti-Monopoly game we have up in NH, but all I can find is this totally gay hippie bullshit where some people play as free marketeers and the others as big, evil, corporate bastards. The one I remember has you playing as an anti-trust litigator and you had to rack up what was essentially political capital by busting the big firms.

Fishman · January 2009

Up at my grandparent's beach house they have some mad old board games from like the 1960's or some shit.

There's like the oldest copy of Monopoly, some dutch language rummicub-type thing I never learned the rules to as I don't speak dutch, and this neat old game called 'Top Cop' or something.

The idea was to go around the board collecting clues and matching them to crimes. When the clues in your collection matched an outstanding crime, you 'caught' that criminal, and another crime would be added to the stack. Eventually, you run out of crimes, and the person who caught the most criminals won.

It's pretty basic stuff, but it's kinda neat to play because it's all yellowed and dogearred with age, and is made from post-WWII materials.

Bedlam · January 2009

More like bo....aw damnit, mike.

RubberAC · January 2009

Axis and Allies is great when you can find people who are willing to play

Rankenphile · January 2009

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

We used to have a sort of card game where are the cards were modular pieces of space ships and you had to make these big ships. I can't remember why or what the winning goal of the game was but man the ships looked awesome in that 1970s sci-fi novel cover illustration / battlestar galactica sort of way.

Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.

I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.

holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit

Rankenphile · January 2009

Cold Salmon and Hatred wrote: »

I was the king of stratego

I have yet to be beaten, every kid at school used to challenge me when I'd bring it to play at the christmas concert

man, I love stratego

I've got this version, a totally swank Limited Library Edition version that is a fully wooden box, styled to look like a leather-bound library book, with gold leaf lettering on the spine and shit. So fucking sweet. Picked it up at Target, who had some exclusivity deal, for like $20. They had Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk and a couple other games that were styled the same. WIsh I would have got all of them, they would look so fucking ritzy, all lined up on a bookshelf.

Rankenphile · January 2009

oh woah, they still have them on amazon for twenty bucks a pop

that's a rad fucking deal

Risk

Yahtze

Life

Scrabble

Jenga

Monopoly

no more Stratego, though, apparently

Meta T. Dust · January 2009

Who wants too play some fucking talisman

Lets do this shit bitches

Ol' Sparky · January 2009

Godddd

Is there anyone in phoenix who would like to play these with me?

because I can get my friends to play risk and have lots of fun but thats it

A Dabble Of Thelonius · January 2009

Rankenphile wrote: »

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

We used to have a sort of card game where are the cards were modular pieces of space ships and you had to make these big ships. I can't remember why or what the winning goal of the game was but man the ships looked awesome in that 1970s sci-fi novel cover illustration / battlestar galactica sort of way.

Um, what else did we have. A really old D&D precursor game where you had to adventure around a dungeon and there was a GIANT WORM monster card that looked like a black pudding and I think my dad always called it the black pudding so I figured that's what it was in the game. Oh fuck, it was Dungeon! which actually came out a year after D&D but was made by the same guys.

I wonder if they still have that...they have two huge cupboards in the living room basically stowed out with old board games that I bet nobody has even thought of looking in for years.

holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit

Oh shit, I remember playing that a couple of times.

Rankenphile · January 2009

I'm going to try to buy a copy of that tonight on ebay, I think.

If I find out any of you dicks are bidding against me, I swear to god I will rape your families.

Moriveth · January 2009

Rankenphile wrote: »

Cold Salmon and Hatred wrote: »

I was the king of stratego

I have yet to be beaten, every kid at school used to challenge me when I'd bring it to play at the christmas concert

man, I love stratego

I've got this version, a totally swank Limited Library Edition version that is a fully wooden box, styled to look like a leather-bound library book, with gold leaf lettering on the spine and shit. So fucking sweet. Picked it up at Target, who had some exclusivity deal, for like $20. They had Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk and a couple other games that were styled the same. WIsh I would have got all of them, they would look so fucking ritzy, all lined up on a bookshelf.

Yesssss, Rachel and I got that for our wedding! It's fucking sweet.

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