[nickcarraway]

[alternatives?]

Panzer Blitz?

[FatherofFive]

Diplomacy remains a great game. There are several websites for online play

[notdownwidems]

8-track tapes: how many players were ruined by people drunk Kelly trying to put the tapes in with the cover still on?

[ConservativeMind]

It’s missing “Pay Day.”

[CatOwner]

Not exactly mainstream, but baseball board games from Strat-O-Matic and APBA were quite popular. So were the various bookshelf board games from Avalon Hill, which included many war game scenarios.

[mmichaels1970]

I’ve got vintage Masterpiece in my basement. As well as this awesome game:

[FatherofFive]

Coup d’Etat is a card game we still enjoy, and my grandkids like Bridg-it.

[Zathras]

Risk!
The longest playing board game ever created.

[telescope115]

Chutes and ladders, Monopoly, Perfection, Hungry Hippo, Operation, Mouse Trap, it goes on and on. Some of the I played as a kid in the 60s, and then I played them with my kids in the 80s and 90s.

FUN TIMES!

[Sacajaweau]

Risk was a favorite. Made you think.

Monopoly was next...made you greedy.

[Marmolade]

Careers was popular in our house. We found 3 different
versions over the years and we played them all. We still
have that game and it gets played by adults and kids on
game night. We also have several of the others mentioned, too.

[linMcHlp]

Golf
Regatta

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One game not on the list...Inside Moves. A greater strategy game combining Chess and Checkers. We still play it. I think in the 70s it was called Camelot's Court.

[mmichaels1970]

I played Pit! A couple weeks ago. Still holds up and can make even the shyest person scream.

[Dr. Sivana]

First, how can you include "Probe", but not "Scrabble"? I played almost all of those games, though older versions of Clue, Life, Risk, and Careers. Mastermind is a worthy inculsion. It was HUGE for a couple of years. I know about Perfection, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and Mr. Mouth, but only from commercials. Mille Bornes should have a place on the list. My sister bought Masterpiece and Mouse Trap with her own money.

We were a board game playing family. I wore out several Monopoly sets. Baltic and Mediterranean are Dark Purple, NOT Brown. Risk needs WOODEN armies.

Something that is outside of the scope of this list but should be mentioned is that SOME of us actually bought and played the home version of TV game shows. I personally had Concentration, Jeopardy, Eye Guess, Pay Cards.

We also played a game that my wife insists I made up called Feely-Meely. No one outside my family remembers it.

[Wuli]

Yes, we played Battleship

Risk

and

Monopoly (with modifications for 4 additional revenue streams (one for each player, awarded by role of the dice) - the banker (able to make agreed on fixed interest loans (each time around the board) to buy properties or build on properties (loans could be paid off anytime), the construction/developer (fixed building fees - sale of houses and hotels), the utility board commission (fixed levies on utility properties as % of charges collected), and the railroad board commission (same revenue method as the utilities. The mods were invented by a lawyer friend of ours.

[BradyLS]

PIT was a great stock-trading game with a closing bell to add to the fun.

[BradyLS]

Dungeons & Dragons was first published in the 70’s. Make of it what you will.

Dragonmaster, a trick-taking card game that was basically Coup d’Etat, was a favorite of mine.

Before Panzerblitz, I played the Milton Bradley war-themed classics Tank Battle, Skirmish (essentially a true—but very light—wargame), Broadsides, BattleCry, and Dogfight.

[ifinnegan]

Smess.

Battling Tops.

[PIF]

You maybe, but others were too busy trying to make a living after the trauma of Nam.