Posted on 07/07/2025 2:09:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ditto. My problem is that the cats LOVE to play.
Wasn’t there an eastern front edition?
It had a little piece of felt for a ball...the way we played, you only had to hit it on the man for a completion... I don’t think I ever completed a pass
In HS we loved toilet papering peoples homes. Once we got caught by Brad Thorp. Unbeknownst to us, his dad was a juvenile court judge. Threatened to put our fannies in jail.
Good times.
We had a Strat-O-Matic league in our college dorm. When it came time to play an All-Star game midway through the season, we cleaned out a dorm room of all the furniture, brought in all the desks from surrounding rooms as a “Tier” of seats, put a row of chairs on top of the desks to form another “Tier” and then placed chairs in front of all of the desks. The two managers and the scorekeeper were crammed into a little nook in the room surrounded by desk lamps for our outfield lights. There were 47 people in that room to watch the game. Guys across the hallway made hot dogs and sold them as well as candy bars and pop. You will never see a thing like this again since everyone wants to live off campus as soon as they attend their first day of college. This is something that will never be forgotten by those that were there. The NL won the game by the way.
That is a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing. I can imagine how awesome that must have been.
I do remember, and this would be in the mid 60s....one son whipping out a big fat dictionary from under the sofa to prove there was some such word. It was some kind of sword from Dungeons and Dragons.
Yep. Panzerblitz. It came out a few years before Panzer Leader. Both are excellent.
I got Panzer Leader first, but, the concept was the same.
Good to know there are some other fans here.
There are a bunch of us out in the interwebs that still play the die-cut counter wargames.
There are several gamer sites out there where you may find a local opponant.
I still have a copy.
My first Wargame! I have a copy on the sailboat and still play solo.
Pachesi? Chinese Checkers? We played one called “Square Mile” - it was a Monopoly clone IIRC.
Ahhh...the game you learn to play just once after a smart aleck comes up to you with a pack of cards.
We were so poor we played "Cootie" with the real thing.
Saw that commercial for the "Mystery Date" game and wondered how they got my picture for "The Dud".
Never got a check for it, either.
I hear you. Last big one that I played was Global War in my college dorm. It was a big multiplayer version. I actually managed to invade and occupy Hawaii (as Japan) but the American player’s everything on Germany first strategy knocked them out of the war more than a year early and, of course, I couldn’t hold my over extended lines.
My older sister and I had many of the games listed in this article.
I also remember the “Miss America”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Bargain Hunter” and “Stop Thief” board games. My board game playing days were mainly during the late ‘70’s and the early/mid 80’s.
One day when I was nine years old, my sister brought home an Ouija board. We got on the living room floor and started playing. Our dad had recently died, so my sister started asking the board about him.
After a while, my mom came home. She was none too happy with my sister for purchasing the Ouija board and forced her to return it to the store. I didn’t understand why my mother was so angry.
Now, I look back on that incident and laugh.
There's a new version of Clue. Arkancide...Mrs Clinton in Fort Marcy Park with a rope! 😀
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