Board games

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. ...

There was always something about the humble board game as I was growing up that captured the imagination. Made you create a reality in your head. Unlike the Xbox or Wii you had to imagine things a bit more.Ghost Train ...

"Go" was a wonderful game where you flew round the world collecting souvenirs. First back to London was the winner. You had to decide how many souvenirs you were going for before you started. We used to ...

Have you ever wanted to blow a fortune on a Sunday Afternoon? Who hasn’t (indeed these days you only have to take the kids to the cinema to do that!) Well in “Go for Broke” you could actually do it, ...

Grape Escape was a game where you would mold plasticine grapes as your playing pieces! You'd play on a board full of obstacles - one which could cut you in half, one which could squish you, etc. I never got ...

This board game was popular in the 70's. It had a glow in the dark board and had objects you would place on the board for a 3D effect. The objects were spooky trees, a haunted house, and some other ...

Possibly one of the freakiest games of the 80s, MB's Guess Who brought together the kind of faces you never want to bump into on a dark night. There was Richard and his impossibly long face; Max, an even bushier ...

This board game by Richard Hamblen and Avalon Hill, and was actually really well thought out, and informative! It harks from way back in 1982. And can be played by up to 7 people.Gunslinger was great at creating that old ...