Factory in South Africa, Factory in India. I also really enjoyed Britain, as it was the most flexible for non-standard strategies. I loved playing Germany, as I felt I had a good handle on their strategy and could push back Britain and Russia (I would go for Africa for economic superiority). We would organize 5 player sleepovers and play all night until we inevitably lost track of the game. Short version - I played this two (five) handed. I don’t expect everyone to track the details of my life but I think I wrote about this all in the “How I got into games” thread we did a while back. This was one of the few games I owned back then, as opposed to playing my friends’ games. But we’re adults and we worked through it and had the same old blast. We had all the same arguments about ambiguous rules, what cards could be played when, order of card resolution, etc. That’s my Dad triumphantly hoisting the Jewel of Vul’kar. These days it’s Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation instead but, you know, there’s really nothing wrong with Stratego.Įxcept the people who say “Strat-uh-joe.” Those people are not welcome in my house.Īnd yes, we played this just a few years back. Yes, there were some stupid learning moments (Oh, if I put TWO rows of bombs around the flag then… the miner just clears them both…)īut I loved trying different strategies and setups, the bluffing and information tracking, sending in that 3 or that Spy at just the right moment, etc. And I delighted in the turn zero strategy. I had an excellent memory for tracking his pieces. ![]() Stratego was the one game I felt I could win for real against my Dad. If you don’t see you parents making outright stupid moves and talking unnaturally about a flawed thought process, they might be giving you undos or pointing out something on the board that you are obviously missing. ![]() It’s hard as a kid, even when you win you kind of know that you’re getting help. I donated all those games.Īctually forgot about this one until now! Which is incredible as it was my favorite game for a long time. In fact it went with the great purge along with Fury of Dracula, and Die Macher about 5 years ago. In the late 90s, Talisman was quite well regarded as something of a juxtaposition to the typical German games of the time and we played it so much I payed quite a lot of money to hunt down a battered 3rd edition copy of my own on ebay. We have a very battered copy of HeroQuest (my partner‘s) that I played once many years later. ![]() Uno, SKip-Bo, Rage, Phase 10, Wizard & the worst of them all: Set. So… I played neither then but both later and own neither anymore.Ī bunch of card games from the era are still quite popular with some of our friends and/or their kids. I used to have the edition in between.Īlso both Fury of Dracula and Arkham Horror seem to have their respective 1st editions in the 80s. Wouldn‘t mind owning the last printing by Spielworxx. I played that older version once on a legendary gamenight in the latter half of the 90s. One that hasn‘t been mentioned as far as I saw is „Die Macher“. The only games I now own (and love) from that time period are newer versions of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Tales of the Arabian Nights. Other games that I can remember playing back then: Cluedo (1949) Careers (1955) Risk (1959) The Game of Life (1960) Formula 1 (1962) Dogfight (1962) Mine a Million (1965) Hit the Beach (1965) Mastermind (1971) Boggle (1972) Dungeon! (1975) Scotland Yard (1983). Sitting on the floor with board game paraphernalia spread out around us, a low sun shining in through the window. So when we were old enough (in the 1980s), my sister, cousins and I got to join in.Ī lot of my memories are tactile ones - the spiky metal horses ( Totopoly, 1938) the tiny ‘gold’ bars ( Buccaneer, 1938) dialing the ‘working’ telephone ( Scoop!, 1953) rustling paper money ( Go: The International Travel Game, 1961) snapping plastic rail tracks in place ( Railroader, 1963) sliding clackety levers ( Stay Alive, 1965) slowly tipping the cardboard ship ( The Sinking of the Titanic, 1985). ![]() My dad has been a boardgame enthusiast since the 1950s.
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