I may see how far I can go making fun of board games. In fact, I’ll bet there’s a decent punchline in the name: “bored game”. Meh, maybe not.
I remember playing candyland, but also hungry hungry hippos, topple, fireball island, mousetrap, mall madness, connect four, guess who, and Parcheesi. Favorite board game when you were a kid?
There’s a home video stashed away of me playing hungry hungry hippos. For 45 minutes. Using a spoon to put each marble in the middle individually. I think my father left forgot to turn off the camera.
oh, god.. there probably is now. Like “Do not lick or ingest the game board. If the game board is ingested, please contact poison control. And smack your kid for being stupid.”
tmcelmurry
That’s awesome, a cavity just from the extreme of Candy Land…great stuff Dawn. Leave it to Fred to go into sugar shock just from reading the instructions. 🙂
My favorite was and always will be Monopoly. We used to have a blast with Hungry Hippos, Chutes and Ladders, etc. but it always came back down to Monopoly.
I had a friend that was obsessed with RISK, but that was one board game I never got into.
See, I never got into Monopoly. It seemed too “real life” to be fun. Who wants to play a boring adult game? Risk was another I never tried…
But I did play Chutes and Ladders, that was fun… wished there was a live-action version of the game. I believe that game was passed down from my dad.. along with tinkertoys and lincoln logs. Old school cred!
My brother clearly remembers the first time he realized that every game of Candyland is fated from the outset, dictated wholly by the random order of the cards. There is no free will in Candyland. When the realization hit, he couldn’t help but wonder how much of his life he had given to such a futile exercise in determinism.
I’m not sure how old he was at the time…maybe 6.
Lax
The one board game that I’ve played seriously is Monopoly. Used to play it for hours at a time 😀