If you could have..

[gator75]

aggervation i got it as a gift for my 8th birthday.

 

[mhsjax]

OPeration or Clue. Can't decide which one.

 

[hucifer]

Only one board game back from your childhood, which one would you choose?

Mine would be "Candyland"..

I agree with Candyland for sure, BUT...it has to be the Candyland that I grew up with, not the new versions that have those awful characters on them.

 

[MIGrandma]

Oh gosh, only one?! Probably Monopoly then as that's the one I played the most. I would love to have Shenanigans too, and Mystery Date (although I just might still have that one upstairs in the storage closet...not sure I got rid of that when I got married). That is a fall/winter project for this year, to clean out that storage closet (it's a huge walk-in) so maybe I'll find it!

 

[Kitty 34]

Parcheesi

 

[PinballFamily]

We had a game called "Which Witch?" where the gameboard was a 3-D haunted house. You were trying to reach the top of the staircase, but (I'm a little fuzzy on the details; it's been a while!) if a metal ball got dropped down the chimney, it would randomly come out one of the staircases -- and if you were on it, it would bowl you over.

Any chance anyone remembers this game?

Also, "Lost Gold," where you used a little metal detector to find where your opponent hid their three gold stashes...kinda like Battleship.

Ah, nostalgia. Off to eBay...

That is SO funny! When I opened this thread, it was to see if anyone else wrote Which Witch! I loved that game!!! (And it goes on ebay for insane prices! - or at least did when I looked a few years ago...). My other favorites were Hands Down, SkipBo/RackO (sort of variations of Uno), and Crazy Clock (like Mousetrap, but better).

 

[Liberty Belle]

We had a game called "Which Witch?" where the gameboard was a 3-D haunted house. You were trying to reach the top of the staircase, but (I'm a little fuzzy on the details; it's been a while!) if a metal ball got dropped down the chimney, it would randomly come out one of the staircases -- and if you were on it, it would bowl you over.

Any chance anyone remembers this game?

Also, "Lost Gold," where you used a little metal detector to find where your opponent hid their three gold stashes...kinda like Battleship.

Ah, nostalgia. Off to eBay...

I remember that game! I didn't have it, but my friend did.

 

[minkydog]

Unlike - sorry, C. Ann - CANDYLAND - the worst children's game ever invented because of the inability to cheat at it and get it over with before either I or my child had a screaming meltdown. Remember getting almost to the end and getting sent back to the beginning?? Sheer diabolical genius...

Also, Mousetrap was hell. It NEVER worked the way it was suposed to and inevitably one of those plastic pieces would break/get lost. Just awful...

I agree with you about Mousetrap. That game was awful.

But you're going about Candyland all wrong. You have to stack the deck. I take all the special cards and put them in order. Then I load the deck so that NOBODY gets sent back to the beginning when they're halfway through the game. Three & four year olds do not take that well. Heck, 54 year olds don't take that well.

My favorite game was Clue. I wore out 3 boards!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Trivial Pursuit - or rather, the group of kids I used to play it with. I still have the board and cards, but it's just not fair playing at 39 against my 9-year-old.

We have a junior trivial pursuit and when we play with our 7 year old, he draws cards from there.

 

[Rora]

Clue, Life, or Monopoly!

I still have all 3.

 

[Jaime4004]

I always groan (inwardly) when my kids want to play candyland or chutes and ladders. They're horrible! Now Payday and Life, those were great games...

 

[Pixiedust34]

I think I actually do own most, if not many, of the games I played as a child. I played Monopoly most often, and I still have my original game! One original game I wish I had kept was my Life game because the old board folded with all of the plastic parts on it and now you have to re-assemble everything when you play.

Most boards from board games nowadays fold into fourths and boards from my childhood folded in half.

I bought the kids Hungry, Hungry Hippos for Christmas years ago. The noise of that game drove me crazy! I think that has to be my least favorite childhood game. I was glad when they outgrew that one!

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

It would be a tie between Monopoly and Sorry...I still play them once a year at Christmas when we have family together. Oh...that...and Scrabble. I love that game as well...but I don't think of it as a 'kid's game'.

Wish my kids liked board games

 

[charming23]

Mall madness. I used to play it for hours with friends

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Probably Monopoly. I also loved Clue and Sorry while growing up. Interestingly, those are my kids favorite board games as well.

For card games, I like Rage and Mille Bornes.

 

[Robinrs]

Life and Sorry. I also liked Mousetrap!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Simon. Okay technically it wasn't a "board game" but I was an only child and didn't have anyone to play with. I also loved Don't Break the Ice and Monopoly (but only if I was the banker).

 

[Liberty Belle]

I forgot about Risk. My brother and I used to play that a lot. He liked it more than I did, though.

 

[ksjayhawks]

Camp Granada (think that was the right name)

 

[The Princess]

Chutes and Ladders