They still are, I mean you sell kits!Most of my toys back in the day ended up getting hacked up one way or another...
Monopoly is a terrible game,* but board games in general have made a huge comeback over the past decade or so, and are not the province of the 70's. Board games are my other big hobby, I have a pretty decent collection of them, most of them made in the last 10-15 years, and play them on a weekly basis. There's even a company called "Restoration Games" that acquires licenses to old, classic games and releases updated versions of them, like "Return to Dark Tower" and "Thunder Road: Vendetta."You had a marathon Monopoly game.. Played for a day or two, and even use extra money & houses from older / other monopoly sets..
You actually played board games!!
Monopoly is a terrible game,* but board games in general have made a huge comeback over the past decade or so, and are not the province of the 70's. Board games are my other big hobby, I have a pretty decent collection of them, most of them made in the last 10-15 years, and play them on a weekly basis. There's even a company called "Restoration Games" that acquires licenses to old, classic games and releases updated versions of them, like "Return to Dark Tower" and "Thunder Road: Vendetta."
I was just about to @ you when I read that post!!*The biggest problem with Monopoly is that there's little hope for other players to catch up when one player is way ahead, combined with the fact that it usually takes a long time to actually bankrupt a player, meaning that the winner is typically decided long before it's official. I'm pretty sure that's deliberate, as the game was supposed to send a social message about the danger of monopolies, but it's not very good game design.
My brother and I and a few friends devised a few rule changes, just two or three important ones, that fixed that. We'd get three or four games completed in a long evening,*The biggest problem with Monopoly is that there's little hope for other players to catch up when one player is way ahead, combined with the fact that it usually takes a long time to actually bankrupt a player, meaning that the winner is typically decided long before it's official. I'm pretty sure that's deliberate, as the game was supposed to send a social message about the danger of monopolies, but it's not very good game design.
So... competitive sports, solitaire, puzzles, adventure games... These things were invented when?Ps I think games really got good when people realized how fun works (aka a goal, a challenge trying to stop you, and game mechanics to let you win if you’re skilled with them.)
I'd be interested in hearing your Monopoly house rules. I've heard many variations, but what did you do?And then there was the Friday night we completed a long game of Risk, asked ourselves what we wanted to do next, decided to make the 2½ hour drive up to the lakefront summer house, got there, asked ourselves what we wanted to do next, and played another long game of risk. Then we went out for breakfast.
1 I think they are more fun to watch than play…So... competitive sports, solitaire, puzzles, adventure games... These things were invented when?
I think what you are thinking of is more in terms of design choices...1 I think they are more fun to watch than play…
2 in general, there are plenty of simple games like chess or Ur, that follow these rules by accident. (Or a unknown genius)
3 I don’t know if I’d call them games.
4 ???? That was after 1970 I’m pretty sure?
True story. My brother and I were playing with two of our friends. Brother was having bad luck, hardly landing on anything to buy. In due course, I wiped out Friend 1 and Friend 2, becoming owner of almost the entire board. Just before I got Friend 2, he traded to brother so that brother had the light blue monopoly (and nothing else).The biggest problem with Monopoly is that there's little hope for other players to catch up when one player is way ahead
This picture is an odd reminder to me....I took a girl on a first date to see this movie when we were in college.
Are you sure it's still her?This picture is an odd reminder to me....I took a girl on a first date to see this movie when we were in college.
We've been married for nearly 46 years now.
The dice giveth, and the dice taketh away.True story. My brother and I were playing with two of our friends. Brother was having bad luck, hardly landing on anything to buy. In due course, I wiped out Friend 1 and Friend 2, becoming owner of almost the entire board. Just before I got Friend 2, he traded to brother so that brother had the light blue monopoly (and nothing else).
After I defeated Friend 2, it took less than three laps around the board for Brother to win. While it was just the two of us, he literally did not land on a single property I could collect on, not even once.
Fairly certain, yes.Are you sure it's still her?
Sounds too random for my taste. We had a nukes rule that was never used. When you have a sufficient number of territories to qualify as a nuclear power, you may choose to dowse the board with gasoline and light it.Hooo boy, can I talk "house rules" for Monopoly and Risk.
Risk:
Example:
- use two boards..
- add an extra dice or two, this make the 'large army grind' go faster. attack with 4 or 5, instead of just the 3.
- "Nukes & teleports" was a fun one:
- if the attacker rolls a 3 of a kind, that determines "nukes or teleports" and starts the sub-rule.
- if the roll is even, it's Nukes. If odd, Teleports.
- roll one die. that's how many nukes or teleports you get.
- Nukes: draw the top card from the deck. that country either gets wiped out (reduced to 1 army) or 'mutates' (add 1 army) Continue thru the die count
- Teleports: flip the tow top card of the deck: those two countries switch armies / swap land. Continue thru the die count
- I roll three 5s. So, "Nukes or Teleports"
- Odd, so 'teleports.'
- I then roll a 2. SO, 2 teleports..
- The first two cards drawn are Indonesia & Siam. You grab your armies off Siam, I grab my one army off Indonesia. I now own Siam, you now own Indonesia
- The 2nd two cards re Alberta & Peru. We swap armies.
- I was attacking from Alberta. So, my turn has essentially ended. You had Peru, and had the continent. You no longer have the continent, but now have 23 armies (from Alberta) against your 3 armies in each of the other 3 countries in S. America..
- My next turn is likely to take over S. America.. I was working on N. America.. but things change....
This can really shake the game up!!
There was no "Chicago 1" album.
It was, "The Chicago Transit Authority"
There was no "Chicago 1" album.
It was, "The Chicago Transit Authority"
That was the also name of the band, until the CTA took legal action, and they shortened it.
(I wonder if there was ever a particular day that Chicago was playing in Boston, and Boston was playing in Chicago.)
That was the also name of the band, until the CTA took legal action, and they shortened it.
(I wonder if there was ever a particular day that Chicago was playing in Boston, and Boston was playing in Chicago.)
Yes, it was either 25 to 4 o'clock, or 26 to 4 o'clock.Now that I thought about it, It must have been Saturday In the Park... But was it really the 4th of July ?
My wife refuses to play Monopoly with me... she doesn't like to lose. It DOES tend to bring out the worst in people...*The biggest problem with Monopoly is that there's little hope for other players to catch up when one player is way ahead, combined with the fact that it usually takes a long time to actually bankrupt a player, meaning that the winner is typically decided long before it's official. I'm pretty sure that's deliberate, as the game was supposed to send a social message about the danger of monopolies, but it's not very good game design.
I thought it was "25 or 6:4".Yes, it was either 25 to 4 o'clock, or 26 to 4 o'clock.
(25 Or Six To Four confused me until about five years ago. Always thought "25 or six two four")
I was thinking the same thing about the rolled up measuring tape. Don't tailors and seamstresses still use those?I'm thinking that the nutcracker set must still be around.
People still have to crack nuts.
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