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Title: Favorite Board Games
Post by: EdenEye on Thursday 06 May 2010, 09:14 am
I thought it would be fun to find out what everyone favorite childhood board games were. My favorite and most memorable (I'm sure I'll think of more later on) were:

Pretty Pretty Princess
  -I loved putting on all the pretty jewelery and would wear it even when I wasn't playing the game.

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/010322.jpg?t=1273133454)

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/010321.jpg?t=1273133498)


Goosebumps Shrieks and Spiders
   -I had another Goosebumps game at the same time, the board was actually a large piece of plastic, like twister but no where near as big. I can't find any info on it. Anyone know what I am talking about?

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/1995GOOSEBUMPSSHREIKSSPIDERS.jpg?t=1273133571)


Hungry Hungry Hippos
  -I still have the original game but no idea where the balls went??? - I've been meaning to find some replacements.
 
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/hungry-hippos1.jpg?t=1273133654)

Ouija
   -I remember my brother telling me to "rules" and steps to follow before I use the Ouija Board. I also totally believe that a friend and I comunicated with my dead neighbor!)

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/Ouija.jpg?t=1273134195)

Girl Talk
   -Hours and Hours spent playing this game. I LOVED It!)

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/GirlTalk.jpg?t=1273134352)

MASH!
 -The Fortune Telling Game for Girls! (I know it's not a board game but I spent so much time playing it, I had to include it in my list.)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/MASH.jpg?t=1273134631)

Party Mania
  -Ok, so the tape just played the same thing over and over again, but each game was different from the last anyways, depending on how you rolled.

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/PartyMania.jpg?t=1273135053)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: mouse on Thursday 06 May 2010, 03:34 pm
They still make Hungry Hippos (along with Gator Golf and Elefun)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: DarkAnjel77 on Sunday 09 May 2010, 02:22 am
My board games were all old school.  My grandma and I LOVED to play Aggravation.
(http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp173/Sinz77/NOT%20FOR%20SALE/BsWIbQEWkKGrHqYOKjoEvN44eNlBL3fKRFp.jpg)

She also taught me how to play cards.  Rummy mostly.  

Man I miss those days.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: zuse on Sunday 09 May 2010, 03:02 am
Board games I had as a child. Later on I might make a list of the ones I really wanted that I saw on TV or that my friends had. :)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!BrktNNgBGk~$(KGrHqUH-DMEuqELYqK9BL0NB7nq+Q~~_3.JPG)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!BrktO4wB2k~$(KGrHqMH-DEEu+8jultZBL0NCD0lmQ~~_3.JPG)

(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/1/9/8/8/0/3/webimg/276113734_o.jpg)

(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/1/9/8/8/0/3/webimg/276113741_o.jpg)

(http://www.trollandtoad.com/images/products/pictures/275228.jpg)

(http://www.trollandtoad.com/images/products/pictures/289482.jpg)

(http://www.talespinhq.com/General/Merchandise/tsboardgame.jpg)

(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic58815_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: EdenEye on Sunday 09 May 2010, 05:59 am
That Pretty Pretty Princess box was the one that I had! Thanks for posting it!
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: vanillascoop on Sunday 09 May 2010, 12:54 pm
Pretty Pretty Princess and the Little Mermaid = the greatest games of all time. (i have a later PPP box than the two shown though)

I don't have time to find pics right now, but I also liked

Grape Escape
Don't Wake Dad
Forever Friends Popping game (don't know the actual name but it was set up like a garden and the layout is similar to Frustration)

and what was the game where you "dated" boys and rang them up on a phone? my friends and I thought it was so grown up >.<
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: EdenEye on Sunday 09 May 2010, 10:46 pm
Dream Phone!!! I never had it. One of those I always wanted to play but never got the chance. I've also never played My Little Mermaid. Maybe one day. :) The hardest part about board games is trying to find someone to play with me!

(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic510576.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Rider of the storm on Sunday 09 May 2010, 10:48 pm
The one l love the most was an electronic one called Dark Tower it is very hard to find and once the computer chip in the tower goes bad the game is broken for ever the game is selling for 400 dollars on e-bay for one mint in the box.  ;D


http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/m/mO6T2jknW7l-PVyg4L1E1tg/140.jpg
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: EdenEye on Sunday 09 May 2010, 11:00 pm
Here are 2 more games I never got to play but was dying to get them when I was a kid. The commercials were on YTV constantly!

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/AskZandar.jpg?t=1273442331)

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/13DeadEndDrive.jpg?t=1273442368)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Rider of the storm on Sunday 09 May 2010, 11:06 pm
I played aggravation with my grandmother a few weeks ago, and she had half here marbles in home base before I got one in . I can not win the game when she plays.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: zuse on Sunday 09 May 2010, 11:14 pm
The one l love the most was an electronic one called Dark Tower it is very hard to find and once the computer chip in the tower goes bad the game is broken for ever the game is selling for 400 dollars on e-bay for one mint in the box.  ;D


http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/m/mO6T2jknW7l-PVyg4L1E1tg/140.jpg

I was at my Goodwill once and found the manual with no rips/tears in the bin of books. I got it for, like, less than a quarter. Of course I sold it for around $10-20 on eBay. That's when I learned how sought after that game was!
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Rider of the storm on Sunday 09 May 2010, 11:22 pm
The copy of the game we had is long gone. The game was played so much the board fell to pieces , and the tower stopped working , flags for the kingdoms got lost   ect. I would love another copy if a mint one did not sell for hundreds of dollars. 
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: mouse on Monday 10 May 2010, 02:51 am
The hardest part about board games is trying to find someone to play with me!


I know! I'll have to wait 'til my sisters kids are old enough to play with me :)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: WordFuzion on Monday 10 May 2010, 10:20 pm
I loved board games as a kid! (And okay, now too, hehe)

My favorites:
The Babysitter Club Game
Sweet Valley High
Clue
Battleship
Mall Maddness (mostly for the board, my MLPs and smaller animals had a BLAST with it. :P )

And my favorites now:
Boggle
Trivial Pursuit
Monopoly
Scrabble
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: apanda0622 on Tuesday 11 May 2010, 01:33 am
I used to LOVE the Sweet Valley High, Girl Talk, and Mall Madness games.

Also, Clue and Life.

I still have all but Girl Talk.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: EricaVee on Wednesday 12 May 2010, 01:15 am
OMG mash. We played that as late of senior year of high school, especially after we all got our acceptance letters and the teachers stopped making us do anything.

My FAVORITE board game was the Lady Lovely Locks Seek & Peek game.

(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic178397_md.jpg)
(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic178399_md.jpg)

I was born too late to really know what LLL was but I had a book about her and I loved the way the characters looked. Then I saw this at a yard sale and recognized the characters on the box and had to have it. I loved the cardboard cut-outs so much that I played the game by myself just so I could use them.  :P

Years later I was so surprised to find out that there were dolls and a show and everything! I own some of the dolls now and they make me really happy. I'd LOVE to find another copy of the board game though. Mine got left out in the rain a longgg time ago. :(
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on Friday 14 May 2010, 02:26 am
well  the two i loved the most was candy land the board was the 1970-198? one.  i saw the new version and it broke my heart!  :'( they got rid of most of the characters and replaced some the rest they redrew it looked so UGLY!!  compared to the one i remember.  the other one was a table top RPG called dark tower it was electronic and we played it till it died. now one that is mint is about $300.00 or more! i miss playing it dearly and wish they would bring it back it was low tech but fun.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: slashhley on Wednesday 26 May 2010, 09:27 pm
These were the games that I was obsessed with:

Monster Mash!
(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic43117_md.jpg)

Hands Down!
(http://morningglory2.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/hands-down.jpg)

Maniac Mansion on Nintendo (If you beat this, you are my hero!)
(http://exegeet.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/maniac_mansion_commodore_64_box_front_cover_art.jpg)
(http://www.offworld.com/oimages/maniac_mansion_screen.gif)

AND

MEET ME AT THE MALL

(http://www.darwinsgamecloset.com/images/MeetMeattheMall1990.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Ianua on Sunday 06 June 2010, 09:40 pm
My favourite board game was "mysteries of peking" it was like cludo but set in ... well I'll let you guess.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Lauralovelylocks on Thursday 24 June 2010, 02:54 pm
Ooh, I LOVED Ghost Castle (even though I don't think I ever learned how to play it by the rules). The little ghostie masks were great!
I also loved Hungry Hungry Hippos, Animal Smackers ( does anyone remember that? Photos of animals on plastic pieces, a little red pump attached to the animal pieces and you smacked the pump and the animals flew into the air. Why? I don't know, but it was great fun!)

Two other games I remember but never had (can anyone tell me?):

1) Something like Cinderella, where you had to collect little glass slippers?

2) A vampire-type one with a little Draculla stamper to stamp your hand????
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Fairy Dust on Monday 27 September 2010, 01:14 am
I love my "Stop Thief" game.  It had this controller looking thing that made the noises that were clues that you had to move your dective around the board and into the different buildings and figure out which numbered spot the invisible theif was on.  I still love this game.  The little pieces like the theif cards and the dective id cards were really fun!  You punch in the numbers on the controller when you are on the spot where you think the thief is and the police siren sounds and if they shoot and then you here the ambulance sound you got the thief!  If they shoot and you here nothing you got the number wrong.  It they shoot and you here a na na nanana sound and the running sounds (and sometimes window breaking and another crime too!) then you know he was there but he ran and you have to find him again.  Fun game!  It needs a 9 volt battery for the controller fyi and you can play with up to 4 people. :)

http://www.bonanza.com/booths/fiftiesdrivein/items/Stop_Thief_board_game_vintage_games_electronic
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Cherry Chip on Wednesday 23 February 2011, 09:04 pm
Reading through this thread takes me down memory lane lol.  I know this is an old thread but here are mine:

Barbie Queen of the Prom.  My little brother would even play that one with me.  He played a guy some how lol.
Clue The Great Museum Caper
Careers
Lie Detector
Guess Who?
Pay Day
Take Off!
Risk
Balderdash
Uncle Wiggily
Sorry!
Don't Go To Jail
Old Maid
Connect Four
Spy Alley
And this bee game where you where this magnet thing on your head.

Gonna have to second Pretty Pretty Princess, Candy Land, 13 Dead End Drive (love that one), Monopoly and Party Mania.  Oh and Lady Lovely Locks even though I don't really remember it that much.  I'm sure there's others that I can't remember.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: EdenEye on Wednesday 23 February 2011, 10:18 pm
Thanks for adding to the topic. I love to hear what everyone's favorite board games are, sometimes I am reminded of ones I have forgotten!
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: jazzmatazz on Tuesday 22 March 2011, 04:37 am
Fraidy Cats
Pretty Pretty Princess
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Pizza Power Game
Jumanji
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Herd Your Horses
The Lion King Sounds Of Fun Electronic Game
Don't Break The Ice
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on Sunday 25 September 2011, 12:38 am
i really miss the original candy land, and  i miss dark tower most of all !  another one i liked was mouse trap and i found a 1970's one the other day. the only other one was crocodile dentist but i cant find a copy that you take the teeth out of!!!!  all i find are the ones where the teeth get pushed down and that is no fun !  >:(
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Mysstica on Sunday 16 October 2011, 12:25 am
My best childhood friend and I would play Sweet Valley High all of the time. (I actually bought a copy on ebay for her a few years ago and still haven't gotten it to her...) http://www.amazon.com/Milton-Bradley-Sweet-Valley-High/dp/B000PDHXP2

My family always played Wacky Blasters together. (Although the game is long-gone, I still have the die. ;) ) http://www.zippygamer.com/2010/01/the-game-that-will-blow-you-away/

Although I don't remember much about it, I know that we had the Goosebumps Terror in the Graveyard Game. http://slappy-the-dummy.blogspot.com/2010/12/slappy-goosebumps-terror-in-graveyard.html

We also played Hands Down as a family. (I squealed a little too loudly when I saw it for sale at Walmart recently.)

OMG, I had forgotten about MASH! Thanks for the nostalgia there!!!
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Elby on Wednesday 06 June 2012, 08:32 pm
I had DreamPhone (which has been mentioned previously) and it's still an ongoing joke with me and my siblings that one of the recordings in the phone was "I know who it is, but I'm not telling - ha ha ha!"; except the distorted voiced sounded more like 'va va va' at the end!

I've also still got 13 Dead End Drive - which was also mentioned. But my favourite childhood board game, besides Junior Monopoly, was Winnie-the-Pooh 'Friends of the Forest' game where you had to tidy up your section of the hundred acre wood with three trees and a clean river:

(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic187800_md.jpg)
(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic188051_md.jpg)
(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic187815_md.jpg)

I might still have it. We had it from new but I know for a fact that the box is falling apart now - it's well loved!
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: tia_sweet_pea on Sunday 17 June 2012, 04:29 pm
Oh my, there are so many games I've never heard of! Like I would have loved to have the Lady Lovely Locks Seek & Peek game..or that Dark Tower (sounds really interesting)! ^_^

My favorite games when I was a kid were Don't Wake the Dragon and Teacher's Quiz

I should dig around and see what other games I still have...
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: luckdragon on Thursday 26 July 2012, 10:12 pm
I actually collect Monopoly sets, but my favorite game from childhood was 13 Dead End Drive.  I still have it.  And I found one at a thrift store for $2.12.  I bought it for my cousins, and it had everything but the instructions.  I downloaded and printed off the instructions.  They love it.

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-End-Drive-Board-Game/dp/B000FE190G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343337111&sr=8-1&keywords=13+dead+end+drive
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: TheMinorityof1990 on Friday 24 August 2012, 09:31 am
Does anyone remember a board game where you had two pens, and you had to spell whatever words you were given correctly? If you did, a happy face would appear on the pen. If you didn't, a sad or angry face would appear on the pen. I'd love to know what this game was called. I think we still have it in the loft somewhere.
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: ianthe99 on Sunday 30 September 2012, 04:33 pm
These were the games that I was obsessed with:

Maniac Mansion on Nintendo (If you beat this, you are my hero!)
(http://exegeet.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/maniac_mansion_commodore_64_box_front_cover_art.jpg)
(http://www.offworld.com/oimages/maniac_mansion_screen.gif)



I had that! (and yes, beat it)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: ramallama on Saturday 06 October 2012, 01:47 am
Does anyone remember the game "Go For It"?  I used to love this game.  I have forgotten the rules now, but I remember you were able to pick out what kind of house, car, and profession you wanted.  I think I had it some time in the late 80s.

Here is a pic:
http://www.trollandtoad.com/images/products/pictures/278870.jpg
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: ramallama on Saturday 06 October 2012, 02:00 am
Quote
Ouija
   -I remember my brother telling me to "rules" and steps to follow before I use the Ouija Board. I also totally believe that a friend and I comunicated with my dead neighbor!)

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/Ouija.jpg?t=1273134195)

MASH!
 -The Fortune Telling Game for Girls! (I know it's not a board game but I spent so much time playing it, I had to include it in my list.)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/MASH.jpg?t=1273134631)

The Ouija Board was pretty much always at the sleep overs that my friends and I had!  I also remember that there was a Ouija board movie that we just happened to see on tv during one of our sleep overs that totally freaked us out before using the Ouija board.

MASH...I spent so much time playing this with my friends....I still have some of my old MASH games somewhere :)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: ianthe99 on Monday 08 October 2012, 09:56 pm
Quote
Ouija
   -I remember my brother telling me to "rules" and steps to follow before I use the Ouija Board. I also totally believe that a friend and I comunicated with my dead neighbor!)

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/Ouija.jpg?t=1273134195)

MASH!
 -The Fortune Telling Game for Girls! (I know it's not a board game but I spent so much time playing it, I had to include it in my list.)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g222/JadedEdenEye/Board%20Games/MASH.jpg?t=1273134631)

The Ouija Board was pretty much always at the sleep overs that my friends and I had!  I also remember that there was a Ouija board movie that we just happened to see on tv during one of our sleep overs that totally freaked us out before using the Ouija board.

MASH...I spent so much time playing this with my friends....I still have some of my old MASH games somewhere :)

Was that Ouija board movie Witchboard, by any chance? I loved that movie!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090327/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090327/)
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: ramallama on Tuesday 09 October 2012, 03:13 pm
Quote
Was that Ouija board movie Witchboard, by any chance? I loved that movie!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090327/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090327/)

Oh wow...I think that might be the one!  It is definitely around the right time...1986 :)  I haven't seen it since then.  I will have to try and get it to watch it again :)  Thanks!
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: jadedoz on Wednesday 14 August 2013, 10:31 am
As a child I liked Girl Talk Truth Or Dare and The Simpsons Game
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: pearsonbargains on Friday 22 August 2014, 01:34 am
My favourites were "I want to bite your finger" and "hungry hippos"
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: 90sfairy on Saturday 23 August 2014, 01:36 pm
Just typical ones like 'Ludo' and 'Snakes and Ladders' and 'Monopoly'

My favourite  games were probably the 2 Saddle Club games :)
I have both, but they have lost so many of their pieces...
(http://images.australialisted.com/nlarge/2_x_saddle_club_board_games_20609725.jpg)
and the Mary Kate and Ashley one
(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic53836_t.jpg)
I think I still have that somewhere but because the cardboard is so thin and inside wasn't an actual tray, things just kept falling out. I would be honestly surprised if I found that game and everything was intact

OH and 'Holiday' it's an 80's game
(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/2/2/3/7/8/1/webimg/722182690_o.jpg) That's long gone now.

oh and Hungry Hungry Hippos :)

Probably will rebuy them someday
Title: Re: Favorite Board Games
Post by: Helga55555 on Wednesday 19 June 2019, 10:33 am
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