Board games

The M.A.D. board game was based on concepts from M.A.D. Magazine. It even had Alfred E. Neuman's picture on the box. It was the opposite of Monopoly in that the winner was the one who lost all his money. ...

Oh my God, my cousin and I took out this game the other night and it still works! I'm 26 now and played it when I was like 8! It was pretty corny now, but when I was 8 it ...

For years I remembered playing some sort of farming game. I remembered the board and the cut-out animals. But I couldn't remember the name of the game... until I searched for FARM in eBay. Market Day was the name of ...

Mastermind was a board game which, if I remember rightly, didn't bear much resemblence to the television programme of the same name.The idea of the Mastermind game was to guess an unknown sequence of coloured pegs in the fewest number ...

This makes me remember the time I was actually interested in art! I was about 8 years old. I wish I’d kept it up!A friend of mine had this board game and it really excited me! And made me genuinely ...

Produced in 1987 by Parker Games, this was surely one of Lovejoy's favourite board games! Masterpiece involved players bidding against each other for famous paintings. The catch, however, was that the Rembrandt you were bidding on could be a fake! ...

Mediterranean was a Parker Bros. board game set in ancient times around the Mediterranean Sea. There were four empires; Rome, Constantinople, Egypt and Carthage, I think. Each empire in 'Mediterranean' had a capital and several other cities. Each army consisted ...

This was an AMAZING game! Truly amazing. Why, you ask? Well. Quite simply because you got to pretend to be a Secret agent! And collect a futuristic sounding… Microdot to help save your country.I never had this game but played ...

Monopoly was a game where you had to try to acquire as much property as possible while navigating your "piece" around the board.If someone landed on a property that you owned, they had to pay you some money.I remember a ...

The Monster Mash of board games!This is actually quite a classic idea for a game, it melds a few different types of playability. Good fun, and you get to play at being Frankenstein's Monster!It harks from the way back when ...

Ah, Mork and Mindy. The theme tune reminds me of a happy time – it always played on Saturday mornings in my childhood – around 9am. It was such a fun program and I found it (well Robin Williams) very ...

There are some things in life that are a real waste of your time: washing your car when there are big, black rain clouds dawdling over your head; believing your toddler when he says he doesn’t need to go to ...

Calling all frustrated make-up artists, plastic surgeons and mugshot artists - this is the game for you!Mr Pop! was a board game that tested kids' speed and hand-eye coordination, and along with Buckaroo and Don't Tip The Waiter, was responsible ...

Mystery Date was a board game where you would go around the board and in the end you would get to open the "Mystery Date Door" which revealed the picture of your date. I always seemed to get "Poindexter". He ...