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meelieI have a great fondness for board games.
Growing up with my(idiot) brothers* I didn't get much of a chance to play a lot of them**(although 'The Game of LIFE' was always rather popular in my house. I wonder why? And also, with the new version of the game? You don't get little pink and blue pieces of plastic to represent your offspring/lose all the pieces in the carpet! That seems wrong), I got 'scattergories' and 'cluedo' for christmas very young and then had no-one to play them with. One year, I got video cluedo, due to my mother misunderstanding what cluedo is. It was very odd. I should go to my mothers and rescue it. I think it's in the cupboard under the mantle with her Shirley Bassey record(just the one) and the Dukes of Hazard read-a-long story book cassette tapes(yeeeehaw!)
My cousins had a dodgy Star Wars board game which was just a roll the dice and move setup, but it had cardboard bits representing the characters! Playing that, watching "The Blues Brothers" for the millionth time, and begging to play with their copy of "Twister" were staples of trips to my Aunts place.
So currently at my place we have a really nice scrabble set(it has a lazy susan! and wooden tiles!), Monopoly(from which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alasen is banned from playing), RISK, Lord of the Rings RISK(which has no Mordor on it. How can you play without being able to yell at someone across the board that "Mordor is WEAK!!"?) which we haven't played yet, Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit(which we also haven't played because the questions are skeery. we did however play with the ring that comes with it and pretended to be invisible and called it 'our precioussss'), my Buffy board game(which is uber-complicated to set up, has a thing which determines the phases of the moon and which you can win in a really really short time with a lucky roll. it's a very disappointing game. you're left there, having killed Buffy[or having killed the Master, The Mayor, Adam etc] thinking, 'is that it? that can't be it!' but it is and it sucks), and our most recent acquisition 'Munchkin', which is actually a card game but with a sufficient level of backstabbing and bad sportsmanship that it feels like a board game.
Anyway, this whole post was inspired bylaurakaye linking to a game she'd played called "Kill Doctor Lucky". I covet this game. I also covet a few others after having a look through their site mostly "Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition". You have to fake an expedition! There is no bad there!
* that reminds me, I have a new 'my brother, the idiot' story to tell later. Maybe. If somehow I can prove that we are not related and that I do not share a gene pool with him.
** although I have vague recollections of rainy holidays down south with enforced chinese checkers and possibly a game based on Jem? Or She-Ra? Some kind of very pink board game. With lots of bits. that always got lost. And dude! at primary school there was a game based on The Cabbage Patch kids in the school library. and they had 'Mastermind', and a girl I knew had the 'Murder She Wrote' game. And I got 'Scotland Yard' secondhand when I was little but it was missing vital pieces.
Growing up with my(idiot) brothers* I didn't get much of a chance to play a lot of them**(although 'The Game of LIFE' was always rather popular in my house. I wonder why? And also, with the new version of the game? You don't get little pink and blue pieces of plastic to represent your offspring/lose all the pieces in the carpet! That seems wrong), I got 'scattergories' and 'cluedo' for christmas very young and then had no-one to play them with. One year, I got video cluedo, due to my mother misunderstanding what cluedo is. It was very odd. I should go to my mothers and rescue it. I think it's in the cupboard under the mantle with her Shirley Bassey record(just the one) and the Dukes of Hazard read-a-long story book cassette tapes(yeeeehaw!)
My cousins had a dodgy Star Wars board game which was just a roll the dice and move setup, but it had cardboard bits representing the characters! Playing that, watching "The Blues Brothers" for the millionth time, and begging to play with their copy of "Twister" were staples of trips to my Aunts place.
So currently at my place we have a really nice scrabble set(it has a lazy susan! and wooden tiles!), Monopoly(from which
alasen is banned from playing), RISK, Lord of the Rings RISK(which has no Mordor on it. How can you play without being able to yell at someone across the board that "Mordor is WEAK!!"?) which we haven't played yet, Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit(which we also haven't played because the questions are skeery. we did however play with the ring that comes with it and pretended to be invisible and called it 'our precioussss'), my Buffy board game(which is uber-complicated to set up, has a thing which determines the phases of the moon and which you can win in a really really short time with a lucky roll. it's a very disappointing game. you're left there, having killed Buffy[or having killed the Master, The Mayor, Adam etc] thinking, 'is that it? that can't be it!' but it is and it sucks), and our most recent acquisition 'Munchkin', which is actually a card game but with a sufficient level of backstabbing and bad sportsmanship that it feels like a board game. Anyway, this whole post was inspired by
laurakaye linking to a game she'd played called "Kill Doctor Lucky". I covet this game. I also covet a few others after having a look through their site mostly "Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition". You have to fake an expedition! There is no bad there! * that reminds me, I have a new 'my brother, the idiot' story to tell later. Maybe. If somehow I can prove that we are not related and that I do not share a gene pool with him.
** although I have vague recollections of rainy holidays down south with enforced chinese checkers and possibly a game based on Jem? Or She-Ra? Some kind of very pink board game. With lots of bits. that always got lost. And dude! at primary school there was a game based on The Cabbage Patch kids in the school library. and they had 'Mastermind', and a girl I knew had the 'Murder She Wrote' game. And I got 'Scotland Yard' secondhand when I was little but it was missing vital pieces.
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Date: 2004-01-19 04:07 pm (UTC)In fact, this whole comment is pretty damned sad, upon reflection...
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Date: 2004-01-19 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-19 09:45 pm (UTC)I resent that. It may be true, but I resent.
YOU SUCK! YOUR RULES ARE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!111111111!
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Date: 2004-01-19 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 02:45 am (UTC)But I'll tell you what I want (what I really really want) is a set of Icehouse playing pieces. Also unavailable in Australia, annoyingly. I see they now have a boxed set for playing Zendo which includes the little glass counters; maybe I should consider splurging on that for my birthday. Mmm, board games.
Munchkin sounds intriguing. You'll have to bring it to the HoF sometime. :)
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Date: 2004-01-20 03:12 am (UTC)When my housing situation becomes more clear I will prolly end up buying myeself Kill Doctor Lucky. They seem to ship internationally...
And I will see if I can borrow Munchkin for a trip to the HoF, it is technically Token Males' but really, all games tend to become common property. At least until we move, I guess.
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Date: 2004-01-20 03:29 am (UTC)The neat thing about Icehouse is that they're playing pieces, so there's dozens of games that you can play with them. Really different games, too -- Zendo is a deduction game with one player as the Master, Ice Towers is a free-for-all stacking game that looks like a lot of fun, and there's a bunch of chess and checker-type games you can play on a chess board. The pieces seem really versatile, and they're oh so pretty, too.
Cool on Kill Doctor Lucky. Are you going to get the fake Safari one, too?
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Date: 2004-01-20 03:48 am (UTC)I could tell!
Cool on Kill Doctor Lucky. Are you going to get the fake Safari one, too?
I think so, if only to be able to talk for the whole game in a british accent, eh wot! Or maybe the one where you have to Save Doctor Lucky instead of killing him - there's a moon base copernicus expansion set that looks fun(the moon base they called 'unexplodable' is about to explode!). But for the mean time I'm being good and not spending till I have moving all settled ::resolved face::