I am a fan of Backgammon. I used to have an awesome vintage mini leather fold up one with marble pieces but I don't know where it went. I now have a travel sized one that was made in china. It is bullshit though plus it is in a box somewhere packed away. All my favorite online places to play Backgammon are long gone. I don't like the ones at Pogo or the Big Brother blue and white shite site.
I used to have a collection of vintage boardgames but lost them after divorce. I have started to rebuild some but I don't know if I want to collect them for real. I collect vintage instruments, records, 8-tracks, plus handheld/tabletop arcades from the 70s and 80s and I really don't have the space for another collection. Plus I don't really have time for playing much of anything the past couple of years. Even my guitars all sit in the cases standing like soldiers.
I was also a big fan of Games Magazine. It was an interactive mix of puzzle games, I think it was monthly then became bi-monthly before becoming scarce or ceasing to exist at at. For about a decade The Playboy Press published it. After they dumped it the magazine disappeared.
I forgot I like UNO. I used to play for money with friends (a penny a point). Disappointing playing that online on my phone though, just a soulless and miserable experience if you ask me.
I have a couple of copies of the Kreskin ESP board game. A bunch of other weird stuff. I have an AMC boardgame by TSR. Some other odd boardgames too. Thinking of buying a yacht to live on so I don't know if I am gonna continue collecting too much more bulky stuff.
I will post some pics later if I can dig up something odd/weird or uncommon. But right now I have to go to work. I got transfered to graveyard at another location for being mean to people. Giving people a tasklist of what to do and then writing them up when they fuck the dog is not being mean. I smash cell phones like a bitch teacher and jaws drop. Why do jaws drop? Don't bring that shit to work. I don't have time for games at this point in life, I wish I did. I really wish I was that guy.
Backgammon's a lot of fun. There was a time of a few years where that's the most game we played but strangely after that I don't remember playing it that much. After a few friends and family slowly moved apart it slowed down and stopped with those that remained close by.
Uno was another big one along with Rummikub later on. That was fun too. I had the same opinion as you did that it's not the same when you play the computerized versions of it. It's still fun but missing something after you've played it with people being in the same room.
I had to look up some of those board games. Those sound pretty cool. We didn't have that big a variety when we were growing up. Pretty much Life, Monopoly, Mousetrap (if you could find the pieces), checkers and chess. I didn't know so many more existed until I was grown.
Pics would be nice if you get a chance. What other board games did you have that were uncommon, ya know the ones like the Kreskin one that are unique and different than most of the ones people would have in their living room closet?
