Board games

Family chess game with a difference, released in 1970 and was to be played with 2 people. The aim of the game was to beat the brain.This game was a simplifed chess board with seven squares across to eight ...

Have you ever wanted to be a Tank Commander? As a child I expect so. When you’re small anything large is a source of great fascination – planes, trains, buses, cranes and everything military. I remember visiting Bovington tank museum and ...

Tell Me was a game where you had like a wheel in front of you, it had the letters of the alphabet underneath it, you had to spin the wheel and whatever letter it landed on, you were provided with ...

Ah, the beautiful Noel Edmunds. There was a time that Noel was the official King of TV ™. Of course this time is no more (Breathes a sigh of relief). In the 1980’s and early 1990’s he was everywhere (well, ...

The Baby-Sitters Club board game was based on the books of the same name, as well as the TV show. The game came out in about 1992 and was made by Milton Bradley. Perfect to have at a girlie sleepover ...

This brilliantly designed 1984 board game is so well put together that you almost want to frame it, let alone play it!The concept of “The Cat’s Mansion” is both simple and complex, but very twee.You see there is a mansion ...

Whoo wheeo whoo. Duh duh duh.That old whistely theme tune from the film “The Good,The Bad and The ugly” is still instantly recognizable 40 years later!In the 1970’s you just wanted to be a gunslinger! Fact. Slinging guns left and ...

This is a board game that has four Turles with magnets in their heads. It has a round board the can turn so that the game isn't the same twice, since there are magnets in the board so that when ...

Ah, the London Game.First released in 1972 – re-released in 1997 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the game.I played “The London Game” for fun when I was younger – it was a lot like monopoly in some ways – ...

Much like dominoes or marbles, tiddlywinks has always been a game with rather divided fans. There are those who sit in pubs most afternoons and enjoy a game over a pint of ale; and there those under 10 years old ...

Torpedo Run was probably the game that required the largest area ever needed by a board game. Indeed, it was part of MB Games' "Floor Wars" series, and needed most of my living room to set it up and ...

A classic game – and one remade in 1983, 1967 and 1938 to prove its staying power! Needless to say I knew the 1983 version, but they didn’t change much from edition to edition.Totopoly was based on our old nation’s ...

Made by Palitoy this 3-dimensional board game of a pyramid is still a great game today. You explore the four chambers of the pyramid in search of the hidden treasure meeting hazards along the way, such as the pit of ...

When you were little and watching your mum and dad host another soiree from the sanctity of the top of the stairs, that heady mix of prawn cocktail, Babysham and Trivial Pursuit seemed like the height of sophistication. In years ...