The Fox and hens--drawn on the bottom of a kitchen knife and fork drawer played with buttons. No money spent on wasteful things .for me it was Connect Four, Checkers and Trouble
wow... dont break the ice, I learned of this game as a adult... love itAnts in your Pants
Don't Break the Ice
Candyland
Battle Ship
Parcheesi (always played with my great grandmother)
I agree... Monopoly gets complicated and boring as the game goes on especially if someone bought up Park Ave/Place. I didnt care for Sorry as well... recently learned about the "sliding" part of the gameRISK
CLUE
STRATEGO
Occasionally, "LIFE"
My brother always liked SORRY but I didn't really get into it much.
MONOPOLY sometimes, but invariably someone would get bored and quit, and others would lose interest.
very creative... could've become the "Parker Brothers"Played all the usual board games and was always playing baseball, football, or basketball, but I have two that are probably different. My brother and I made up a baseball game that could be played with dice. Roll the dice to see what the pitch was, then roll again for the outcome. We played an entire 154 game schedule for both NL and AL, back when each was 8 teams...kept stats for everything...Batting Averages, RBIs, HRs, ERA...everything. He was a Cubs fan so he did the NL and I was a Yankee fan so I did the AL. We'd play the same games that were actually being played in the majors that day.
The other one was a racing game using a chalk outline on the basement floor and a toy roulette wheel. Grew up going to the races at Riverside so we used that as a starting point. Bought some 1940 Ford model kits and modified them to look like the cars that ran at Riverside..took off the fenders, and used the running boards for fenders, and some of the plastic connectors to create custom exhausts then painted the cars to look like our favorite drivers...Jocko Maggiacomo, Dick Dixon, Bill Greco and others. The track was numbered like the roulette wheel and we'd take turns spinning the wheel to see how far the car moved...advancing to the number that came up. Spinning the same number twice in row was big because that was a complete lap. We culminated the season with a 500 lapper just like Riverside. Don't remember how many other guys in the neighborhood were involved but it got pretty big.
The Game of Lifefor me it was Connect Four, Checkers and Trouble
LOVED electric football! You knew who were the fast guys, who always turn left or right, etc. Great stuff.The Game of Life
Candyland
Electric Football (A fairly obscure game. Anyone remember it?)
AllStar Baseball
CandyLand was coolThe Game of Life
Candyland
Electric Football (A fairly obscure game. Anyone remember it?)
AllStar Baseball
Some just went around in circles. LOL.LOVED electric football! You knew who were the fast guys, who always turn left or right, etc. Great stuff.
This was my set: