Board games

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 ...