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Game On!
 Posted
11/4/2009 11:56:00 AM
My roommates and I were having a very serious conversation the other day… about board games! And how super cool they were when we were kids!
I've listed some of the most memorable games for me and some information on each. You might learn something really useless.
The Squirrel Game:
This game first came out in 1987. I don't know anyone else who owns/owned this game, but it was one I played a lot as a kid. Basically, you roll the die, move your squirrel gamepiece around the board collecting little pinecones. If you overfill your wheelbarrow (I know, so realistic) you lose your pinecones. The point is to stash all your pinecones before anyone else - you need to hoard 15 to win.
The downside to this game is that the more you play, the less pinecones you seem to have.
Overall, it gets three pinecones out of a possible five.
Candy Land:
Originally published in 1949, Candy Land was one of the first board games played by American children. The woman who invented it in the 40s was recovering from Polio at the time.
The version I used to play was from 1985 - Queen Frostine, King Kandy, Lord Licorice... mmmm...
This game was a definitely a favourite around the Stover house - it gets four Grandma Nuts out of five!
Dream Phone:
Ahh Dream Phone... I never owned one, but who doesn't remember this commercial?
Dream phone came out in 1991, another version came out in '96 - which is right around the time I became a little more interested in boys.
When you're a young girl with glasses and a ponytail (and braces and training bras...) the idea of having dreamy hunks calling you for a date is a thrill!
The funny thing is that, even though I never owned this game as a dorky tween, I DO have it at my new place and my roomie and I actually pulled it out while we polished off a bottle of wine.
It's still a thrill talking to dreamy hunks - so really, not much has changed.
DAN, DAN MY MAN!
Ready, Set, Spaghetti:
This is a cottage game, and since we only had a few up there, it was either Ready, Set, Spaghetti or Monopoly.
Ready, Set, Spaghetti took just a little less time to play.
The game came out in 1989 and the point is to twirl the "spaghetti" or string around your fork by removing toppings from the gameboard.
I say four meatballs out of five.
Trouble:
It's fun getting into trouble! For such a simple game, this was probably the one I played the most as a kid. Maybe it was the pop-o-matic dice roller - which meant you never had to run around looking for one.
Love this game - it get's five pop-o-matics out of five!
Perfection:
My final pick is Perfection. What it SHOULD be called is "Scare the Sh*t Out of Your Kid" because that's what it did to me! Even if I prepared myself for the "pop" I would still jump out of my skin every time!
The game first came out in the 1970s - the point being to stick 25 pieces into their appropriate slots in 60 seconds. This is hard for a little kid to do when they are frozen with fear.
This game gets a big FU*K OFF and stop scaring children!
So that's just my short list of board games. There are tons more and I want to know your what your favourites were!
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