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  • rssesq
    rssesq Fairfield County Posts: 3,299
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1Pp6qksKU
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,863
    edited April 2017
    whispering hands said:

    rssesq said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4C7vSByMM

    I loved that show!!
    Me too! One of the best TV theme songs ever, too.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,750
    One of my favorite board games from wa-a-ay back (and I believe it is still made!):


    But the one I really want which I have not found at anything close to reasonable in price is Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boys game. Not so much for the excitement of the game as for sheer nostalgia!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    Yes. I think that we still have Chutes and Ladders in our game closet!
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    deadendp said:

    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    Yes. I think that we still have Chutes and Ladders in our game closet!
    Yet another reason I love you =)

    I still have a Scrabble from the 70's, with those smooth wooden tiles.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited April 2017
    hedonist said:

    deadendp said:

    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    Yes. I think that we still have Chutes and Ladders in our game closet!
    Yet another reason I love you =)

    I still have a Scrabble from the 70's, with those smooth wooden tiles.
    I was gifted a competition Scrabble set last year! SWEEEEEET! Now I just need someone to play with.. lol
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,750
    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    Parcheesi! Another favorite from back in the day. I have the same game we played when I was a kid. Great game!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,964
    brianlux said:

    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    Parcheesi! Another favorite from back in the day. I have the same game we played when I was a kid. Great game!
    The kids play Cheesy Parcheesi now.
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    Remember when this board was fun and free and actually felt like a community
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited April 2017
    Gary Carter said:

    Remember when this board was fun and free and actually felt like a community

    First of all they tried letting us 'have at it' in amass.. but we messed it up.. and bans were quickly enforced.. once they realized the force of the gathered masses, they made it safer for those that came in, in unawares, from outside of the Internet world, because we were such jerks that we ( yes all of us at the given times in this board's history..) literally scared folks away. WE are the reason for the changes, not the mods being "Scotts". So if it seems like it's no longer fun in here.. thank another fan.. lol
    As for free.. well, that was nice.. but true to the nature of the world, it came with a price.. only fair, that we that ask for the resource, PAY for the resource.. but yeah, free was nice..
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Gary Carter said:

    Remember when this board was fun and free and actually felt like a community

    It's what you make of it, and take from it - the fun and community parts of it. I'm happy to experience both.

    As to paying, that's out of my control and my choice whether or not to pony up some bucks for that. But, I also consider priceless the dear friends / friendships made here.

    Win/win :)
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    Loved Chutes and Parcheesi as a kid as well.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4SPsaVRgvII

    Sort of a competitor against Double Dare back in the late 80s
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    I loved Fun House!
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  • rssesq
    rssesq Fairfield County Posts: 3,299
    I know this board is full o heathens ;) , but who memberz these?

  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,986
    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    my wife and I play board games with our daughters all the time. our laundry room is filled to the ceiling with board games. chutes and ladders is one of our staples, as is go fish, connect 4, jenga, and Sorry!
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited April 2017
    rssesq said:

    I know this board is full o heathens ;) , but who memberz these?

    Probably everyone, since this is a pagan ritual [of dyeing and hiding eggs]; it has to do with fertility rituals, NOT the resurrection of Christ...though, somewhere around the 12th century, they began to meld these two concepts together..I was that weird kid at 4, that actually asked what one had to do with the other!! Lol
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  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    rssesq said:

    I know this board is full o heathens ;) , but who memberz these?

    Loved these as a kid.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CodjSio8rf8

    I wanted this for Xmas 89 so bad but never got it.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    HughFreakingDillon said:

    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    my wife and I play board games with our daughters all the time. our laundry room is filled to the ceiling with board games. chutes and ladders is one of our staples, as is go fish, connect 4, jenga, and Sorry!
    Yeah, Hugh! Your daughters will hold those memories dearly (as I know you will), trust me.

    We used to play a board game called Payday. Not sure how popular it was, but a fun way to bond AND learn about bill-paying, budgeting, etc. Those lessons served me well...says this debt-free adult =)

    I'm feeling slightly nostalgic today - more and more lately, it seems! - and thinking of childhood lunches of grilled cheese and tomato soup, of our sweet black Lab/Shepherd mix with her white chestplate and sweetest eyes who just knew I was at the bottom of the family totem-pole (dad was #1). Of summer school as a kid, even.

    Guess I just miss the oblivion that came with that age. Knowledge is power for sure, but ignorance is / can be bliss.

    But, not when you're a supposed grown-up :)
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    hedonist said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:

    hedonist said:

    As a kid, nothing beat Chutes & Ladders and Parcheesi for board games.

    Do families still get together and play those?

    my wife and I play board games with our daughters all the time. our laundry room is filled to the ceiling with board games. chutes and ladders is one of our staples, as is go fish, connect 4, jenga, and Sorry!
    Yeah, Hugh! Your daughters will hold those memories dearly (as I know you will), trust me.

    We used to play a board game called Payday. Not sure how popular it was, but a fun way to bond AND learn about bill-paying, budgeting, etc. Those lessons served me well...says this debt-free adult =)

    I'm feeling slightly nostalgic today - more and more lately, it seems! - and thinking of childhood lunches of grilled cheese and tomato soup, of our sweet black Lab/Shepherd mix with her white chestplate and sweetest eyes who just knew I was at the bottom of the family totem-pole (dad was #1). Of summer school as a kid, even.

    Guess I just miss the oblivion that came with that age. Knowledge is power for sure, but ignorance is / can be bliss.

    But, not when you're a supposed grown-up :)
    Payday was an underrated game.

    Trouble was a good one too with the plastic bubble.

    We played Risk from childhood through university.

    APBA Baseball and Stratomatic Football were awesome as well.
    "My brain's a good brain!"

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