Board Games

[Pocahontas]

This game frightened me! There were always scary stories related to it!

There's this other contraption/game thing that I can't recall the name of.
You had this wooden base with circular slots in it. Above it were two metal rods that you manipulated in and out to make this large steel marble roll up and down then you tried to drop it into the slots. It got harder the further apart you pulled the metal arms. I think one version had planet names on it and others had numbers for points value. Oh well I haven't been able to find a pic. due to not knowing what to call the thing.

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

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This game frightened me! There were always scary stories related to it!

There's this other contraption/game thing that I can't recall the name of.
You had this wooden base with circular slots in it. Above it were two metal rods that you manipulated in and out to make this large steel marble roll up and down then you tried to drop it into the slots. It got harder the further apart you pulled the metal arms. I think one version had planet names on it and others had numbers for points value. Oh well I haven't been able to find a pic. due to not knowing what to call the thing.

Pokie is burning the midnight oil with familiar spirits Anybody ever play battleship ??

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

Anybody ever play battleship ??

I'm sure every boy from our generation played battleship at least once. I even remember the tv commercial.. "You sunk my battleship"..

How about "operation"?



And "Mousetrap"?

[Al Swearengen]

How about Risk? Now there was a saga of a game! Could take days to finish. Or how about Stratego? That was a crowd pleaser.

[Pocahontas]

I loved Operation but it made me jump everytime that buzzer went off so I wasn't very good at it due to jittery hands!

[j.nc]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

There's this other contraption/game thing that I can't recall the name of.
You had this wooden base with circular slots in it. Above it were two metal rods that you manipulated in and out to make this large steel marble roll up and down then you tried to drop it into the slots. It got harder the further apart you pulled the metal arms. I think one version had planet names on it and others had numbers for points value. Oh well I haven't been able to find a pic. due to not knowing what to call the thing.

Shoot the Moon!
Ours had the names of major world cities.

[Pocahontas]

Yes that is most certainly it! Thanks j.nc!

I loved Battleship too IS! The original one with the pegs was much better than the electronic one later!

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Then came computer games. Duke Nukem, Doom, Heretic, Descent, Quake, Quake II and Hexen. I gave it up for reading and enjoying the outdoors. The board games I must say would much less stressing. I will still go with Chess.

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

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This game frightened me! There were always scary stories related to it!

Me too Pokey! A neighbor had one of these and we would have sayonces (sp?) in the dark with a candle and I would always run away...

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

There's this other contraption/game thing that I can't recall the name of.
You had this wooden base with circular slots in it. Above it were two metal rods that you manipulated in and out to make this large steel marble roll up and down then you tried to drop it into the slots. It got harder the further apart you pulled the metal arms. I think one version had planet names on it and others had numbers for points value. Oh well I haven't been able to find a pic. due to not knowing what to call the thing.

I remember that thing. I have no idea what it was called. This pic is as close as I could find.

[Pocahontas]

Originally Posted by rhertz

Me too Pokey! A neighbor had one of these and we would have sayonces (sp?) in the dark with a candle and I would always run away...



I remember that thing. I have no idea what it was called. This pic is as close as I could find.

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I hated seances too!

j.nc already posted me a link to Shoot the Moon and his pic was the exact same one I had. Fun to think back isn't it?

[j.nc]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

j.nc already posted me a link to Shoot the Moon and his pic was the exact same one I had....

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more board games from my dim past and maybe yours too.

Candyland [just recalled always cheating my little bro by faking a 7 roll fromthe starting point so i could take the "rainbow bridge" shortcut]


Uncle Wiggly (this one ws kinda freaky for a little kid - click to look at some of the graphics! The Skeeziks in our version looked like a mutated crow)


Chutes and Ladders: Don't hitsquare 87!!!!

[Pocahontas]

I never did quite "get" Uncle Wiggly! It seemed complicated and it seems like we just skipped over several parts and made up our own rules!

I thought of a couple more remember Trouble and that plastic dome that you clicked to roll the dice? And what about Sorry?

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

I thought of a couple more remember Trouble and that plastic dome that you clicked to roll the dice? And what about Sorry?

Yeah those were old classics... Played them both many times.

This isn't a board game, but I used to love the Mattel Thing Makers... There were several themes. The one below as called "Creepy Crawlers" which was my favorite... You would squirt "goo" into a mold and bake it and presto, a rubbery thing is born!

[Pocahontas]

Great memories rhertz!!! I loved those creepy crawlers. I can't tell you how many times I burnt myself baking those guys! It's amazing what toys we were allowed to play with back then.
Remember those home Chemistry sets and those wood burning tools? It's a wonder we didn't blow up or burn down the neighborhood?

[j.nc]

Originally Posted by rhertz

Yeah those were old classics... Played them both many times.

This isn't a board game, but I used to love the Mattel Thing Makers... There were several themes. The one below as called "Creepy Crawlers" which was my favorite... You would squirt "goo" into a mold and bake it and presto, a rubbery thing is born!

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

It's amazing what toys we were allowed to play with back then!

LMAO - oh yes! My Mom still has the old set back home. They'd NEVER sell something like that now because of the liabilities of burns etc. I remember my Erector Set - an old one even for the day-had a open top transformer with exposed coils... maybe it had lost the lid but still...

Are people just stupider now to get hurt or was it just accepted more back then that you had to take resonable care or else accept it was your own stupid fault to get hurt -accept your own responsibility.

What was the first "toy" to set it all off? Lawn Darts? Now that, no matter how well managed is an invitation to disaster. Hadfulls of spikey winged weighted arrows flung up in the air by young uncoordinated fists in a yard full of softheaded tykes
yes, we got them for xmas one year too.