I bought Buckaroo last year and was most distressed because it seemed fareasier than it did when I was 7, even when majorly ****ed.

They have now bought out a new version of Buckaroo with 3 difficulty settings.

I am distraught.

I used to love Buckaroo as a kid, and Operation :p I always had trouble taking his heart out though :eek:

I always wanted mouse-trap, but Santa never brought it for me:(

My sister had Mousetrap and occasionally i would be allowed to play with it.


I also loved Monopoly, but noone would play with me as the game lasted FOREVER.

I want Bop-it for Xmas this year.

My sister got it for her kids last year and I think us adults played with it more than the kids:D
Highly addictive and highly annoying to everyone else in the room:D

Lol - ive tried that, but my coordination is pants :p

I always wanted mouse-trap, but Santa never brought it for me:(
Mousetrap, I discovered, is extremely overrated. It looks amazingly fun, but is actually a bit rubbish.

cheerio!

I want Bop-it for Xmas this year.

My sister got it for her kids last year and I think us adults played with it more than the kids:D
Highly addictive and highly annoying to everyone else in the room:D

We've got this Andrea and I'm proud to say that I've got the highest score. :D Competitive mum, me? :p

I always wanted Operation as a kid but was never given it but when my kids got it I realised I hadn't missed much - it's not nearly so much fun as it used to look in the ads.

Operation was fab, especially when I realised that if you unscrewed his nose slightly, the buzzer wouldnt go off and I;d win



Mwahahahahah

Thanks for the tip floopy I WILL be champion of the operation game next time!

I never had any of the games...

I was fond of ker-plunk though :D

Oh, and I did have monopoly, but as you say, no one would play it cos it was too long...

The thing I hate about monopoly is no one will let anyone else go bankrupt, everyone's too nice and start lending money to poor people...

you need to play with my husband's family - they play East End rules - you dont pay your rent, you get your legs broken.


:D

you need to play with my husband's family - they play East End rules - you dont pay your rent, you get your legs broken.


:DI'd love to see the moss side rules :eek: !

One of my sons friends got Bop it and I WANTED IT!! So I bought my kids it and now I wish I hadn't!! I hate it with a vengance!!:ranting:

Max's kids got it for Christmas a couple of years ago and i thought it was a great game (when we could wrestle it off of Max, who became complusive about beating EVERYONE!). So I got it for my son's birthday a couple of months later and it has languished in the drawer, it lost its allure once it was all ours and we could actually get to use it.

I never had Buckaroo but I DID have Operation and I loved it. But not as much as I loved Rebound, which consisted of some ballbearings in plastic Polo shaped thing, which you whizzed up a plastic alley and pinged off some old rubber bands to win points.

Ah, it all seemed so sophisticated at the time...

Did anyone ever play the board game Colditz ? It was extremely complicated and difficult to get a grasp of the rules. But boy oh boy once you did.

There were only 3 of us who picked it up and we could loose a whole day...actually I don't remember ever finishing it....

This was about the late 70's.

:ninja:

PS New re-released games now always seem smaller and flimsier, my buckaroo was huge compared to the crappy little things today. Or is it relative to your own size. A child:Toy ration ??

Colditz was fab. I was always Holland for some reason, probly cos I liked orange.

My brother was always the germans and he ALWAYS called an Appel whenever my boys were close to getting out. Git.

One of my fav board games was an old one of my parents. Its called Rat Race, and you have to go from lower class to upper class by paying your way, or marrying into it.

You get to buy ming vases and fur coats etc .... But if you got divorces you went down a rung and were in middle / lower class again.

Great fun.

I used to really like Cluedo. That was great fun. I always loved Monopoly also but find it very difficult to play now, as it does take too long. Just doesn't seem to hold the same enchantment as being a child. Now in our family we play Yahtzee and Game of Life.

I like Cluedo, Tigger but we haven't played it for years. I remember a few Christmas's ago my parents were round and we got it and they just couldn't work it out, it really quite funny seeing them puzzling over it!

Whenever we have a dinner party, we usually get Cranium out at the end, it really is a fun game and even better when we have a few sozzled guests! :)

One of my fav board games was an old one of my parents. Its called Rat Race, and you have to go from lower class to upper class by paying your way, or marrying into it.

You get to buy ming vases and fur coats etc .... But if you got divorces you went down a rung and were in middle / lower class again.

Great fun.I loved this - still have it somewhere - I'll have to dig it out:D

We had buckaroo and kerplunk and mouse trap - well my older brother did, myself and my younger brother were allowed to 'touch' them now and again. He had another one which was his prize - I'm sure it was called "haunted house" - we're talking over a million years ago lol ! does anyone else remember it?

We had buckaroo and kerplunk and mouse trap - well my older brother did, myself and my younger brother were allowed to 'touch' them now and again. He had another one which was his prize - I'm sure it was called "haunted house" - we're talking over a million years ago lol ! does anyone else remember it?

I REMEMBER HAUNTED HOUSE (jumping up and down with excitement).

The markers were little plastic boys and girls, I loved this game...I must have been about 10!!!

Also Mousey Mousey and of course Ludo with the plastic dice dome.

I'm going to stock up on board games for my boys this Xmas...they are 11 & 9 any good new ones out???

I've been reading this thread with a daft grin on my face. I remember all the games mentioned here, even haunted house.

I liked Flying hats, it was where you had to catapult these little plastic hat shaped things into holes, and who remembers Frustration?

Oh I remember frustration, wasn't that the one with the plastic popper in the middle that you had to press and the dice would jump about inside.

who remembers Frustration?
This was one of my favourites as a young child, my kids liked it too when they were little.

Oh I remember frustration, wasn't that the one with the plastic popper in the middle that you had to press and the dice would jump about inside.

I still have this :blush: Mr.B and i sometimes play it when we are bored :wink2:

Going back to Operation for a moment. I found the trick of getting the heart out was to close the tweezers, stick them in the bit where the heart is broken, then let them open.
You should be able to lift the heart out then :D

Going back to Operation for a moment. I found the trick of getting the heart out was to close the tweezers, stick them in the bit where the heart is broken, then let them open.
You should be able to lift the heart out then :D
we did that too:laugh:

I play a lot of scrabble with the children, and they always beat me! We also like a good long game of Monopoly but you need to be in the right mood for that. We are also partial to a nice jigsaw (I'd better confess that in the thread of naff hadn't it?) :wink2:

Hi,
yes i know what you mean about Monopoly, me and my hubbie started a game about 2 month's ago, still haven't gotten around to finishing yet!!
I bought my daughter the Twister game this year, well only because i wanted one when i was younger but never had one. :laugh:

Ahh - this is the thread of nostalgia.

I pretty much remember all of the games mentioned so far. I HATED Monopoly (still do actually) - but quite liked Cluedo and Scrabble. Colditz was good though! :) Dunno why people thought it was complicated...

On the subject of complicated games, does anyone remember "Risk"? Now that was bluddy complicated. My Dad and brother used to play it with my cousin - too mad for me.... :wacko:

I bought Risk a few years back for my husband cause he used to rave about it, saying him and his brother used to play it all the time.

I've played it once with my hubby, that was enough:blink:

So, what games did anyone play over the Christmas period?

We played Cranium, which is great fun when you're playing with someone who doesn't quite get it ie the MIL, also played Scrabble and a Simpsons trivia game, which my son got last Christmas and it's the first time we've played it .... and possibly the last. Oh and of course, Charades, down at my mum's, although, being the misery that I am I studiously avoided getting any right so I didn't have to perform one.

We have spent every day since Christmas playing UNO, I am sick and tied of it now. It's a great game, but oh my god, 40 games a day with a 6 year old :blink:

We also got the kids version of Cranium, Cadoo which is pretty good too.

we played Hide The Sausage quite a lot :ninja:

Oh and of course, Charades, down at my mum's, although, being the misery that I am I studiously avoided getting any right so I didn't have to perform one.
Don't think I didn't notice that Max!

we played Hide The Sausage quite a lot :ninja:



Gosh, been a long time since I played that game..... :devil:


Did you find it regularly Floops?

Gosh, been a long time since I played that game..... :devil:


Did you find it regularly Floops?
Let's hope so else it could be lying in a dark passageway somewhere now stinking her gaff out! :laugh:

Let's hope so else it could be lying in a dark passageway somewhere now stinking her gaff out! :laugh:


unpleasant Dol, very unpleasant.... :sick:

Dolores, you really are shameful.


Tsk

I played a great game with the young un's over Christmas called Articulate where you describe the word on the card you have, noun, verb etc It could be though that I was getting plastered as I was playing that made it so enjoyable but hey we all had fun with this game.
Scrabble rules though for me.

I was playing Playdoh with a 3 year-old on Saturday - oh yes my life really is that rock and roll - and I was seriously miffed; in my day you got a couple of pots of doh and that was it, now you get rollers, stamps, moulds, shreddy-uppy things.

I'm thinking of suing my parents for depriving me.

I prefered plastercine.....much more fun...problem was all those lovely colours would soon merge into one big brown lump! :sad:

I was a dab hand and making Morph! :laugh:

My kids got some Playdoh for Xmas and it took them about 2 hours to form the said brown lump.

I was actually playing Buckaroo with my youngest this afternoon, we had great fun.

I always wanted mouse-trap, but Santa never brought it for me:(
you didn't miss anything - the game took far longer to set up than it did to play. And you ended up knocking all the parts over anyway whenever you tried to move your mouse around the board. Nasty old game!

Anyone have "I Vant to Bite your finger"?? - me sis' had that one and I think we played it just the one time before condemning it to the attic...