Board games

13 Dead End Drive was a game where you first had to set up a very intricate (it seemed so at the age of 8) series of furniture and booby traps. Then I can't honestly tell you what you had ...

In case you don’t know, 221b Baker Street is the address of Sherlock Holmes, and this game, named after that famous address, was a great way to play at being the worlds most famous detective.Released in 1975, and for 2 ...

321 was the board game of the TV show 3-2-1. It had Dusty Bin and all the prizes that they gave away on the game show! ...

Aggravation! Yep that was SO the right name for this game. That’s all I got from trying to play it! I liked playing it but I could NEVER win!The game was for up to six players, and the object was ...

My Grandfather used to have this game – because he worked at Boeing. He made parts for the airplanes and loved everything about the air.I used to get infected by his own enthusiasm, he loved it and I played it ...

In the Alley Cats board game each player (up to 4) took turns throwing a die to move their cat counter around the board looking inside blue and red rubbish bins for fish bones. Inside 4 of the bins were ...

What an amazing puzzle-rific 1980's board game this was! It was made of plastic and the maze slotted together, there being always one tile not in the labyrinth. Players take turns with this extra tile, moving some of the tiles and ...

Ambush! Fascinating game this is. Yes, fascinating. And at the same time potentially most dull – but it isn’t.You see, this is the solitaire game of combat, adventure, and heroism in World War Two France. That’s right, I just said, ...

As any teenager knows, the success of any sleepover is usually judged on the quality of games supplied. For a while, truth or dare sufficed, and Twister and Dream Phone for the girls, but then something a lot more sinister ...

The history of Backgammon goes back approximately 5,000 years further than ancient Egypt. So technically, being on the site “do you remember”, is quite optimistic. If you do remember the early versions of this game, and I get it wrong, ...

Balderdash is a board game of confusions about words, bluffing people and language trivia. It was created by Bradyn Blower and Mark Powell and is now owned by Mattel (The company that also makes UNO, Hot Wheels, Kerplunk, and Magic ...

Battleships (also known as Battleship) is basically a guessing game of glory played by two people. While the plastic and electronic version of the game was first made in 1979 and will be avidly remembered by all boys of the ...

The Bed Bugs game was a frantic 2-4 player board game made by Milton Bradley in 1986. The idea of the game was to catch as many jumping Bed Bugs as possible from a fiercely vibrating bed using a pair ...

In Bermuda Triangle each player controlled a little plastic ship with a magnet on the top from one side of the board to another, port to port. This involved crossing the seas around the dreaded Bermuda Triangle. The aim of ...

The popular Blockbusters TV quiz show ultimately made it to a board game. One person would be Bob Holnes (the quizmaster) and the other players would shout out "Can I have a P please Bob" (with hilarious consequences).There was a ...

There has never been a game more likely to result in people doing bad Cornish accents to each other than Buccaneer. Playing it immediately excites that part of the brain connected to bad pirate impressions. (the "Thalamous Black Beardyus")Players automatically ...

This game actually had the title in French (something like Jue D'Affair) although I can't spell it; the English title was down the side of the box. It was a very good game for 2-6 players. Each player had 'X' ...

Actually introduced in 1949, Candy Land was a Milton Bradley game that turned into a bestseller in every decade since. The game was invented by Eleanor Abbott from San Diego, California whilst she was recovering from Polio. She created the ...

In the early 70's I had TonyBlackburn's 'Chartbuster'. It was about making hit records and you aimed to get your record to number one. As you became more and more successful you played gigs in bigger venues and bought bigger ...

Chess is perhaps one of the oldest games in town (or village). Everyone should remember it in some way or other - even if it’s just as a few confusing moments trying to understand how to play it before you gave up.It’s a ...

Chinese checkers is a game I remember for my attempts to actually finish a game. It always took so long that I had pretty much given up by the time I was only half way through it.You play it on a star-shaped ...

Who invented Cluedo? It was Reverend Green, in the Library with the lead piping.No, actually, it was a Mr Antony Pratt, in Leeds in 1949.Cluedo, is quite literally a board game phenomenon. It couldn’t be more successful if it could dance ...

Does anybody remember Contraband? As I recall it was a sort of card game with Monopoly type money.  I think the idea was to get items through customs, presumably either by smuggling or in a diplomatic bag. ...

This is an almost impenetrable board game. Try it. Sit down and read the rules. It’s a mix of every type of game you can imagine (other than water polo) and is challenging to say the least.Hasbro - who produce the game ...

Now THIS was a game, a real game!My Nan and Granddad had one of these and I used to look forward to going round their house just to play this game (oh, and because they game me sweets, but it ...

The thing I remember most about this game is that I used to hate playing it! Dare was the Parker board game variation of Truth Or Dare. I remember the blue/red/yellow box and the rectangular board. Some of the dares ...

Even though I am now firmly into adulthood there are several things that even the mere thought of still produce a tremor of juvenile excitement through me, just as they did when I actually was a child. Big Trak is one ...

This is a curious game, so it is.It looks like a version of “Connect 4”, except you can slide things around. It plays like a game of Chinese checkers and it requires the thinking skills of chess!A real classic, and ...

This is one of those under rated games that you completely forget about and then suddenly with recall it and want to play it again asap!It’s a bit similar to Roy Walkers catchphrase in that it is all about discovering ...

I remember a board game I received as a birthday present in the early 60s. It was called Dizzy Bugs. It involved winding up four clockwork shaped tin bugs that used to spin round on a board. I can't remember ...

Early 70's board game. You had a bug which used friction to wind up the wheels. The bug whirred around the board and landed in a colour space and you got points instructions etc. Loved this game. ...

Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaurs was a board game from the 80s for up to about 4 players. You had to move counters around the board after throwing dice. The catch was that if you landed on a certain space ...

I played Panic! in the 90s. It came in a blue and white, long, striped box, with a card stack and timer built in. That ticking sound still haunts me to this day....They still make it, but the older version ...

Players take turns adding beans to the top of a pot trying to get as many as possible without "spilling the beans" or making the pot tip.this of course was a fun cheap game when we were younger, all you ...

What a cool game! It was a balancing act, kind of like Jenga in that respect. After assembling the 3D cardboard waiter, you have to take it in turns to place cardboard discs that represented food on his tray... without ...

Donkey and the Carrot was a board game for up to 4 players that consisted of 4 brightly coloured donkeys (red, blue, green and yellow), a load of path cards, and a die with pictures on.You had to roll the ...

Downfall was a game for two players. Players sat either side of the upright board and you put a counter in at the top, and had to twist the cogs round to get your counter through the maze. Whilst doing ...

Made by MB games. I had this in the '80s. It was fairly simple. A yellow plastic base with two opposite-facing courses of four lanes each, with a small red or blue (depending on which player you were) plastic dragster ...

This is one of the simplest, and most classic, strategy board games of all time. It was probably the first strategy game I learnt, around the same time I also was introduced to connect 4 (another simple strategy game). However, ...

In the board game 'Dream Phone' you would use the included pink phone to call cheesy looking American guys with a number starting '555-'. Someone may have given you a tip, something like "this guy doesn't eat pizza". So then ...

Get behind the wheel of the infamous 1969 Dodge Charger the General Lee and tear up the highways of Hazzard County with this retro 80s Dukes of Hazzard board game. Whether you fancy yourself as Bo, Luke or even Daisy ...

E.T. Phone home!I can’t believe that there are now a number of generations of children that “E.T. Phone home” means nothing to!This board game was great – but mostly because it was so well made and my whole house were ...

This game seemed impossibly complicated, but once you got the idea, it was great fun. The idea was that you controlled a team trying to escape from Colditz Castle, the World War 2 German POW camp. It was based ...

Fast 11's was fun, though don’t be confused it didn’t actually involve much car movement! It was much more of a board game. It was still fun though!The idea – obviously – was to be the first car to cross ...

Feeley Meeley was a box with a hole in each side in to which you put your hands and felt around to see if you could work out what was in the box just by touching it. ...

This Game was published in 1986 by Milton Bradley with a suggested 2-4 players.The aim of the game was to move your character around a molded plastic board that resembled a "dangerous mountain". There were various places where you ...

The game of Dracula was a board game released in the UK by Waddingtons in 1977. All I can remember from it is that it had something to do with a Castle and it had a red plastic Dracula piece. ...

Nothing beats the original version.Choose your car. Add your coloured peg (pink for girls, blue for boys). Decide whether you want insurance and choose your career path, then GO!Spin the spinner! Drive your car. STOP to get married - whether ...

This was a very popular strategy game. A little like Risk, and like Risk I was often invited to play but i was a bit young for it, I think. Game of Nations, by Waddingtons, seemed to go on ...

If you remember the Ghost Castle board game, then you'll remember the glow in the dark skull, the knight in armour and the skeleton in the dungeon. Absolute classic game from the 80's. ...