Board games

The game though first released in the 1950's was redesigned and remade in the 1960’s and 1980s, and I had the 1980’s version. Scoop tells of the time, not so long ago, when journalists lived in every city in the ...

Someone mentioned the name of this game under the blog for Haunted House and yes! this was the game I owned. I've been trying to remember the name of it for ages. I remember it being most fun because you ...

This was a game created in 1980 that consisted of a board of a map of the world (slightly basic) with ports' names. You had to buy cargo and deliver it to where it said on the ticket. When ...

There are countless versions of Snake and Ladders, including Chutes and Ladders. The point of the game was to travel from the beginning of the board to space 100 using dice. If you reached a space with a ladder you ...

Soccerama was a football manager boardgame. It was the 1960's / 1970's version of today's computer based football manager games, like Championship Manager. My older brother had it and we had hours of fun playing this together. You started out ...

In my childhood home the Sorry! board game was a welcome alternative to the endless drudgery that every game of Ludo I played turned into (‘Ooh, I’m nearly home…oh, you’ve landed on me. Back to the start then and wait ...

Spectrangle is described as a “Tile based strategy game” I would describe it as a tile based game of pain! Well, actually it was quite good fun, but I ALWAYS lost!I just couldn’t fathom it. Maybe it was my latent ...

Remember “A Question of Sport”? well, “Sporting Triangles” was a very similar show – except it was on ITV rather than BBC!And this was the board game of the TV show. Which was quite a novel thing back in the ...

Stay Alive was an MB board game where two colours of marbles sit on the top and you take it in turns to pull the sliders from underneath. Last colour standing wins. ...

Stop Boris. The game you had to shoot a massive black hairy spider between the eyes with a laser gun and send him backwards up and into his hole on the target ramp. Classic ...

I was never a competitive child, especially when it came to board games, with the exception of Stratego.  When I played Stratego I became a focused military commander: organising my troops to ruthlessly annihilate the enemy. Woe betides anybody – and ...

Super Quiz was a board game made by Waddingtons which was created in 1982. It had 5760 general knowledge questions in three levels of expertise, for 6 different catagories: Sports and Games, Words, Movies, Science, History, and Geography. Super Quiz ...

Super Quiz II was the second edition of the first amazing board game (Super Quiz). It was created by Waddingtons around 1983 and consisted of 5760 questions in 3 skill levels in the following categories: travel and leisure, famous people, ...