14 thoughts on “Board Games”

1. Cludo, Operation, Battleships… WOW, loved all these board games, always used to play them at Christmas time. Nice to see an add for Attack of the Mutants here as well. I remember playing that album game, it was brilliant fun 🙂

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   • Cheers Paul. I’ve always liked that Attack of the Mutants ad after seeing it inside so many 80s comics as a kid.

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     • It is a really fun ad for the Attack of the Mutants game. The game itself features some great art work on the cover of the box too. I’ve never seen many ads for this game, so nice to see one for a change 🙂

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2. A perfect post for this time of the year! The boxes are enough for me; even if the games are lousy, I still want them!

   Yahtzee was a mainstay of Christmas nights for several years – that and good old dominoes. Great fun with the extended family. You’ve gotta love a bit of Scrabble, too (when I was younger, I was obsessed with Upwords – the verticality of it made it cool!). A slightly lesser novelty was the Weakest Link board game, which came with a hilarious Anne Robinson mask for the host, as well as cards full of ‘insults’ between rounds. They were the best bit, really! Fun memories 🙂

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   • Brilliant, you jogged some memories in me now with Upwords, Yahtzee and dominoes – and that Weakest Link game sounds hilarious!
     You’re right about the boxes being attractive even if some of the games are rubbish. The graphics (which hardly ever changed over many years) stir up the nostalgia pot perfectly I think.

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     • Another advantage Upwords had for me was the fact that the tiles locked neatly onto the grid, unlike Scrabble, which I remember suffering a couple of interfering cat incidents…

       Oh, absolutely. Thanks for stirring the nostalgia pot once again 🙂

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     • Ha, yes, I too had cats that would jump up on the table and land in the middle of a board game. Funniest was when the Scalextric was out, watching them pounce after the cars on the track 🙂

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     • Haha, I can imagine! 🙂

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3. I did play a few of the games you mention here, and a few other such as Snakes and Ladders, Parcheesi and Checkers. However, Scrabble was the one! I was dead serious about it. No one wanted to play with me. I always won. I always fancied myself going to the championships in Vegas, and winning. However, Video Games kicked in, and now it’s the Art Gowns & street art. There’s just not enough time!
   This post is a lot of fun! Happy Holidays!!! ❦💥❦☄️

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   • Yes Snakes and Ladders! And checkers – which we also knew as ‘Draughts’ as kids. Those two games are very traditional and I don’t have a single ad for them – pity, maybe because they’re rarely tied-in with film/cartoon characters, and are often bundled into compendiums. Not sure. Will have to add those to the search list.
     Ah, Scrabble – had some great word battles over the years with that. A brilliant game.

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4. Ahem. far be it for me to start the Christmas Holiday arguments that always happen when playing “family favourite” games…but are abbreviations allowed in Scrabble? I saw what you did to the rack of letters!

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   • Well, it all began when Wooof tried to place it on a triple-word square, so I made him put the letters back in the tray and then I took a pic to remind him of his cheating ways. He went off in a sulk to get some milk, and while he was gone I quickly cheated onto the board the word ‘Expunged’. He didn’t notice muhuhuhaha and I scored about 78 points! Alas, no one won the game, because in the end, as you correctly predicted, a ‘Christmas Holiday argument’ soon developed at a mighty pace, and the board and its contents ended up flying through the window (which we had only just had repaired after that epic game of Monopoly on Christmas day when Mrs Coldkettle the tea lady brought a loaded pistol to the game!). I swear, this is the last time we play board games over Christmas, especially after watching The Sound of Music on Blu-ray! That film always winds the cat up. Anyway… how was your Christmas?

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     • It was a nice quiet day or so thanks very much – I needed a break as I have been pushing myself designing and trying to learn as much about 3D modelling as I can to catch up on lost time.
       But your reply just cracked me up laughing, as it described the last ever game of Scrabble I had with Mrs Tyeth. I think Scrabble should come with government health warnings – it’s dangerous!

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     • Glad you found some good winding-down time after a really busy year! You deserve it mate 🙂
       The hazards of board games – I’ve also seen some Monopoly games turn ‘nasty’. I’m not a big fan of the game, though sometimes a themed or regional set can be interesting for its novelty value.

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