# What what your favorite boardgame as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157 "2004-11-05T11:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/21 "2004-11-06T03:05:46Z")
Risk, Sorry, Mousetrap, most of the ones mentioned. We had this game, and I can’t remember what it was called, but it was, like, a mountain? With a big, scary face? I think there were little silver balls involved, but I can’t be too sure. A volcano, maybe? Ugh, I dunno. Great game though. 😃 I liked Nintendo games, too. My mom and I used to play Bubble Bobble together all the time. “Get the umbrella!” ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/22 "2004-11-06T03:49:27Z")
Stratego and Stalingrad. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/23 "2004-11-06T03:55:51Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > I liked Nintendo games, too. My mom and I used to play Bubble Bobble together all the time. > > “Get the umbrella!” I LOVE BUBBLE BOBBLE! We still play sometimes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/24 "2004-11-06T04:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] **Life** QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/25 "2004-11-06T04:23:11Z")
Whoops! That wasn’t meant to happen. Life was my favorite game. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/26 "2004-11-06T04:34:07Z")
I played a lot of Careers, Monopoly and Risk. I’ve been wanting to get a risk set for my kids. One of my favorite games when I was in 5th/6th grade (I remember playing it during indoor recess) was called Obsession. You had 12 rings numbered 1-12. Your rolled both dice and you could either take the total of the roll, or each one seperately and move your pieces or move your opponent’s back. Each piece had to go two steps to the goal (once it reach the goal it was safe) The stupidest game I ever played with my kids was the Barney board game. Every time one of the players reaches the goal, everyone is supposed to clap for them. I played it with my (then)4 year old daughter and (then) 9 year old sister-in-law. My sister-in-law kept giving me “God this game is stupid” looks through the whole thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/27 "2004-11-06T04:52:21Z")
> [@tanookie](#): > > I LOVE BUBBLE BOBBLE! We still play sometimes 🙂 I, too, love Bubble Bobble. ☹ But I don’t have a Nintendo anymore. I’m going to harass the people Nintendo until they either A) release a Bubble Bobble for the Game Cube I already have, or B) launch a special 20th Anniversary of Nintendo campaign, releasing the Original Nintendo **and** all the games. They will crack eventually. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/28 "2004-11-06T05:14:29Z")
Solarquest. Think Monopoly, but instead of color-coded streets you had them assorted by planet, and you could keep going around and around a planet as long as you had fuel (and the cash) and could cross the black dots of interplanetary void. It takes _forever_ to play. And of course we sharpened our Machiavellian scheming muscles on it. Psst, Silver Fire. They’re [on to you.](http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=m-Game-0000-1521) ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/29 "2004-11-06T05:17:11Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > I, too, love Bubble Bobble. ☹ But I don’t have a Nintendo anymore. You could always use one of the systems that make old NES games playable on a PC. I’ve wasted hours in this fashion. 😃 Back to board games, I was always a **Monopoly** kid. My best friend in middle school used to gnash her teeth because she just simply couldn’t beat me. Now I’m more fond of **Kill Dr. Lucky** and other [Cheap Ass Games](http://www.cheapass.com/) or **[Puerto Rico](http://www.aleaspiele.de/Pages/A7/)**. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/30 "2004-11-06T05:19:39Z")
Yeah, I already know about that, but I don’t have a GBA. I suppose I could steal my nephew’s… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/31 "2004-11-06T05:25:37Z")
Risk. Some of those games I played could get ugly, though. Risk could be the most fun ever, or it could leave jets of steam shooting out of my ears. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/32 "2004-11-06T05:50:15Z")
I still love board games. Some of my favorites were Monopoly, Trouble, Operation, and Candyland. I played Trouble and UNO all this afternoon. It was lots of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/33 "2004-11-06T16:51:50Z")
Nobody played chess as a kid? I did, and really liked it. I wasn’t (and still am not) a prodigy or anything, but I enjoyed it a lot. Don’t know if that falls within the OP’s definition of “board games.” ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/34 "2004-11-06T17:01:04Z")
[Payday](http://www.bullseyesgames.com/areyougame/buygames/payday.shtml) (boy, it sure looks a lot different), Monopoly, Life, and Chinese Checkers. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/35 "2004-11-06T22:53:27Z")
Twister! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/36 "2004-11-06T23:35:13Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > I, too, love Bubble Bobble. ☹ But I don’t have a Nintendo anymore. Got an old PC? There’s an Underdog abaondonware site that has the DOS version. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/37 "2004-11-07T00:24:50Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > We had this game, and I can’t remember what it was called, but it was, like, a mountain? With a big, scary face? I think there were little silver balls involved, but I can’t be too sure. A volcano, maybe? Ugh, I dunno. Great game though. 😃 You just woke up half a memory in my brain… unfortunately, not the half with the name. I remember this game, or at least I think I do. There was an angry mountain and you had to move your man (marble?) down the path and across the bridge before the mountain shook… **Sorry, Monopoly, Win Lose or Draw** , and **Clue** were the main ones in my house. We had [Bedbugs](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/8486), **Guess Who** , and **Super Quiz 2000** , which we also played a lot, but my favorite was always **Clue**. ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/38 "2004-11-07T03:31:00Z")
My favorites were **Sorry** and **Uno**. ---
**Author:** ![jastu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jastu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jastu)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/39 "2004-11-07T03:32:10Z")
As a child I mainly played card games, but my favourite board game would definitely have been **Squatter** , an Australian sheep farming game. As I grew up on a sheep station, this game held more appeal for me than Monopoly. The English version of **Monopoly** was probably the most popular with my kids when they were younger with **Squatter** and the **Game of Life** coming a close second. We still all play and enjoy a variety of card and board games today. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/40 "2004-11-07T04:23:48Z")
I played a lot of board games as a kid. In addition to some already mentioned (Risk, Stratego, Payday), some of favourites were flash-in-the-pans, probably less widely distributed. - Electronic Intercept - Dracula - Full House - Stocks and Bonds (from the 60s) - Pentathalon - Poleconomy (Canada only?) - Balderdash Some I liked at the time (What was I thinking?) - Ruffhouse - Disaster [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157.md?page=3)