Board Game Memories & other toys from Childhood

[chinarain62]

I thought this might fun especially for us who are in their late 30's and 40's.

It seems that these are a thing of past sadly...I think they helped work your brain more than viedo games! I was a total baord game addict and still am - although Stix doesn't like board games - he's part of the computer generation!

Now think back to really obscure games....not common ones like Monopoly, Life, Chutes and Ladders etc.


Some of mine.....

Mousetrap
Ker-plunk
Battling Tops
Johnny Lightening Race Track (yes, I HAD this- I was quite the tomboy!)
Hey Pa, There's A Goat on the Roof (one of my fave games)
Stratego
Risk
Sorry
Trouble


I"m sure I'll think of more.....

[pale rider]

How about: Toppling Tower ( I think it was by Ideal)
Skittle Bowl (Aurora)

[Doorman]

Skittle Bowl was great!! "I came to play "Wisconsin Skinny"! "
Pivot Pool, Stratomatic Football, I actually won Johnny Lightning Indy 500 on Wonderama for "Does Anybody Here Got An Aardvark" back on my 7th birthday, May 15th 1970. LOVED that game!
"Trouble trouble that's the name of Kohner's popomatic game...
move your men around the track and try to send the others back.." what was it's "cousin" again?....Headache?
Careers, Parcheesi, and I still love a good game of chess.
One of my favorites was Miles Bournes. Anyone ever play this?
Everything was in French.
"Open the door for your....Mystery Date!"

[Doorman]

BTW....I just noticed that "Toys" were included.
BIG JIM poppin' the "muscle band"!!

[malja316]

My favorite all time board game is 1985's NFL VCR Quarterback. I still own this game and still play it. I also dig Clue and Connect Four as well...

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by Doorman
Skittle Bowl was great!! "I came to play "Wisconsin Skinny"! "
Pivot Pool, Stratomatic Football, I actually won Johnny Lightning Indy 500 on Wonderama for "Does Anybody Here Got An Aardvark" back on my 7th birthday, May 15th 1970. LOVED that game!
"Trouble trouble that's the name of Kohner's popomatic game...
move your men around the track and try to send the others back.." what was it's "cousin" again?....Headache?
Careers, Parcheesi, and I still love a good game of chess.
One of my favorites was Miles Bournes. Anyone ever play this?
Everything was in French.
"Open the door for your....Mystery Date!"


D-Man - did you actually own Mystery Date??????!!!!! I had that game and Headache too!! My parents played Miles Bournes all the time - every week they'd get together with another couple or 2 to play "cards".

[chinarain62]

Toss Across

Lite Bright with the glass pegs

Rock'em Sock'em Robots

[pale rider]

Operation, my kids have it,.......its still one of my favorites.

[chinarain62]

Mine to - even though I ****ed at it!

[Doorman]

Originally posted by chinarain62



D-Man - did you actually own Mystery Date??????!!!!! I had that game and Headache too!! My parents played Miles Bournes all the time - every week they'd get together with another couple or 2 to play "cards".




NO!!! I NEVER owned "Mystery Date"!!! I just thought I'd sing the commercial and bring back some memories for you "chickadeals".
Battleship was another favorite.

[macca]

Operation
Mouse Trap
Sorry
Battleship
Skittle Bowl
Twister
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Monopoly
Life
Hot Wheels(both manual and the "charged ones")
Clackers(well...that was high school....got bruised a lot too)
Goat On A Roof
That game with the monkeys.......the one where you picked them up by hooking the tails....
Trouble
Risk
KerPlunk
Toss-Across
Trouble
Chinese Checkers
Yo'Yo's(and all the tricks)
Tops - especially the wooden ones when you could "spike" your opponent.
Slot Car electric racers - when the tracks were big and the cars were huge! Remember the places you could go and race against each other?
Many others.......can't remember them all.

Funny thing......go in a store and see how many games are still around(especially the ones when I was growing up in the 60's!) They must have been doing something right.....

[chinarain62]

HOLY S! Clackers! Didn't they have Mercury in them????


The monkey thing.....Monkey's in a Barrell!

[love2sing]

I think it was called - Barrel full of Monkeys. I've been racking my brain over that one.

My favorites were Trouble and Parchesi.

I know it's not a board game but I loved etch-a-sketch and Mr. Potato Head. Wow, the things we did before computers. Even outdoor games, like hopscotch, jumprope, dodge ball, red light green light 1, 2, 3. Monkey in the middle. There goes that monkey thing again. Oh! I wish I was a little girl again. See what you started CR

[macca]

we all have to go thru a second childhood sometime....:)

[love2sing]

The childhood I wouldn't mind repeating. The adulthood, I'm not so sure.

[macca]

*sigh* things were much easier then.....

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by love2sing
I think it was called - Barrel full of Monkeys. I've been racking my brain over that one.

My favorites were Trouble and Parchesi.

I know it's not a board game but I loved etch-a-sketch and Mr. Potato Head. Wow, the things we did before computers. Even outdoor games, like hopscotch, jumprope, dodge ball, red light green light 1, 2, 3. Monkey in the middle. There goes that monkey thing again. Oh! I wish I was a little girl again. See what you started CR


Yep I do and I'm glad - you shouldn't forget!

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by macca
*sigh* things were much easier then.....


Yep - miss those days.



I also remember playing Jacks with the metal jacks!

Crazy Foam which was for when you took your bath

[love2sing]

My all time favorite board game was scrabble. I love words. can you tell?

I played with Jack once, but he wasn't made out of metal. Hmmm I think that's where I first saw crazy foam

[chinarain62]

Crazy Foam was packaged in the cool cans like say the can was Spiderman's body and the cap was is head and his mouth is where the foam came out of.

It was probably just a modified version of shaving cream! It was fun though....

I was shattered when they stopped making it! But I thinkit's back - but it's never the same.

I used to get the clown and bird cans.

[chinarain62]

And although these aren't toys....

Do any of you remember Quisp and Quake cereal????

[love2sing]

i remember that

[pale rider]

Originally posted by chinarain62
And although these aren't toys....

Do any of you remember Quisp and Quake cereal????


How about Count Chocula and Frankenberry?

[pale rider]

Now these 2 toys I wish I still had - Mr. Machine and The Johnny Reb Cannon

Actually I wish I still had all my toys! ( I guess I'm just a big kid)

[macca]

I remember all those cereals mentioned above. Funny...as much sugar as those had.....they just scratch the surface of the ones out there now.

[love2sing]

Forget about the sugar. What about the prizes in the boxes?

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by pale rider



How about Count Chocula and Frankenberry?


Don't forget Boo-Berry!

[Doorman]

Originally posted by chinarain62
And although these aren't toys....

Do any of you remember Quisp and Quake cereal???? ABSOLUTELY! Then they came out with "Quangaroos".
How about having "breakfast with the king..."
KING VITAMIN!

[chinarain62]

I remember they had Chocolate Vitamins - they were like M&M's and I can't for the live of me remember the name of them.

But what I do remember is Chocks Vitamins!

[Doorman]

My favorite thing was watching "Winky Dink" and putting my "magic screen" on the TV and saving "Winky" from precarious situations by drawing a rope or a bridge.......
Okay, so I was too poor for the damn kit and used crayons and got my ass beat all the time for drawin' on the TV, but I still remember those days!

[chinarain62]

HOLY S!!!! Winky Dink!!!! I had that too!

[OU812]

Originally posted by chinarain62
HOLY S!!!! Winky ****!!!! I had that too!

[chinarain62]

Stop it Timmy!

[OU812]

Originally posted by chinarain62
HOLY S!!!! pinky ****!!!! I had that too!

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by OU812
HOLY S!!!! pinky ****!!!! I have that!





:eek:

[pale rider]

Anybody ever have Whiskey ****??????

[chinarain62]

You guys are killing me!!!

[macca]

Originally posted by love2sing
Forget about the sugar. What about the prizes in the boxes?

Some say the records on the boxes are worth big $$$$ now!

[OU812]

Originally posted by chinarain62
You guys are killing me!!!
CR ever play with stix's pick up stix

[love2sing]

tiddly winks!

Not to be confused with Winky Dink, Pinky Dink,Winky ****, Pinky ****, Whiskey **** or any other penile dysfunction I'm sure we've all encountered at one time or another.

[love2sing]

tinker toys and lincoln logs.

[Delirious Nomad]

Jarts :)

I think that's what they're called.
Those big darts that you play with in the yard?

[Delirious Nomad]

How 'bout Croquett?
Haven't played that since the 70's.

[OU812]

Originally posted by Delirious Nomad
Jarts :)

I think that's what they're called.
Those big darts that you play with in the yard?
if you wanted to get rid of some one just invite him or her to a nice game of Jarts

[macca]

or chicken......

[Wednesday]

Anyone remember Shrinky Dinks or Colorforms?

Not a toy.....but, how about those little individual boxes of cereal that had the perforations and you were able to cut them along the perforation and the box was the bowl....?

Oh...and how about that stuff in the tube that came with a little straw and you squeezed out a little and used the straw to blow it up and make big bubble like things???...does that ring a bell for anyone?

[pale rider]

How about Bonomo Turkish Taffy!!! Anyone remember that?

[Doorman]

Originally posted by pale rider
How about Bonomo Turkish Taffy!!! Anyone remember that?
I grew up near the factory on West 8th Street in Brooklyn.

[Doorman]

Originally posted by chinarain62
HOLY S!!!! Winky Dink!!!! I had that too!
Okay....let's all sing...
"Winky Dink, and you...Winky Dink, and me....."

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by Wednesday
Anyone remember Shrinky Dinks or Colorforms?

Not a toy.....but, how about those little individual boxes of cereal that had the perforations and you were able to cut them along the perforation and the box was the bowl....?

Oh...and how about that stuff in the tube that came with a little straw and you squeezed out a little and used the straw to blow it up and make big bubble like things???...does that ring a bell for anyone?


But of course.....

[OU812]

connect 4

[love2sing]

Originally posted by pale rider
How about Bonomo Turkish Taffy!!! Anyone remember that?

Yes!

[OU812]

WACKY PAKS

[love2sing]

wax candy

[love2sing]

And Dots - you know the little dots on the paper that when you ate them you ate more paper than candy

[OU812]

Originally posted by love2sing
wax candy don't chew the wax or the silly putty

[love2sing]

or the play doh. I hated every person that gave that shit to my kids

[JJD]

Joe Namath Football (what were they thinking??)
Air Hockey
Knock Hockey
Stanley Cup Hockey (see a pattern) - Couldn't always reach the puck in the corner because of those dam rods.
Pop-up Baseball
Pong (graphics at their finest)
Atari
Intelevision
Concentration
Clue
Trivial Pursuit
Life
Hot Wheels
Mouse Trap

D-Man - Winky Dink is too funny... Reality TV before it's time.

How about Lance Link Secret Chimp, Gigantore the Space Age Robot and Speed Racer.

[pale rider]

Razzles!!!!

[chinarain62]

I loved Playdoh to this day! Thank G-D that my nephew has it!!!

Razzles....is it a candy or is it a gum???!!!!!!!!!!!

[OU812]

Razzles....is it a candy or is it a gum???!!!!!!!!!!!powdered gum

[tome811]

Originally posted by OU812
Razzles....is it a candy or is it a gum???!!!!!!!!!!!powdered gum

How about "Lik em Sticks"? With the three pouches of flavored sugar

[macca]

Weren't those pixie sticks?

[pale rider]

Bazooka bubble gum for 1 cent each!!

[NY DREAMER]

They were called LIK-A-MADE!!! I thought the sticks where great.

[macca]

here's a good one(for you locals).....back in the day.....2 Reese's cups and a Hubig's pie for 25 cents(and yes, the cups were huge).

[RockinRob1970]

I used to like Water Works. I liked giving the leaky pipe.

Still around:

Necco wafers
Lickum sticks

[OU812]

chick lets

[tome811]

Originally posted by NY DREAMER
They were called LIK-A-MADE!!! I thought the sticks where great.


Yup! See what eating all that sugar does to my memory cells? Huh?:confused:

[love2sing]

Originally posted by macca
Weren't those pixie sticks?

Pixie sticks came before lik-m-sticks. Now that everyone knows how old we are

[love2sing]

Originally posted by OU812
chick lets

mini chiclets. you had to swallow the whole bag to feel like you had one piece of regular gum in your mouth

[OU812]

purple was the best

[love2sing]

I never saw the colors. Was there really purple? I liked the chiclet house on the commercial. Now I really am showing my age.

[macca]

along the lines of food.....how about the candy necklaces???

[love2sing]

they still have them. my girls love those things

[macca]

can't believe the stuff we did with those things.....aaah, to be a kid again and not worry about anything.

[love2sing]

yep! didn't care how sticky your neck got while you bit off the candy

[macca]

no matter who did the biting.......(ewww)

[love2sing]

ewwww x 2

[macca]

well...we were silly kids back then...and that was before everything you eat, drink, breathe....etc. would cause harm.....

[love2sing]

well that was before we served and prepared everything wearing gloves. and when someone skinned their knee you put a bandage on it asap. now you have to suit up to help someone who's bleeding, sad