All I know are the board games from my youth, and those I played a lot. My sister and I would often play them in a corner at my grandmother's house, as we were to be seen and not heard. I own a copy of Monopoly on almost every video game platform out there. I severely love the game.

Monopoly
Risk
Trivial Pursuit
Stop Thief (bought a copy of this for my kids, oh lawd its so cheesily awesome)
Chutes and Ladders
Candy Land
Life
Parchesi
Sorry
Chinese Checkers
Regular Dang Checkers
Chess
PayDay
Connect Four

and many more that I'm sure I've forgotten.

I love board games. I have been playing them since I was about 15. I am now 45. Back then it was all SSI and Avalon Hill, hex paper and cardboard cut outs. Today it is games like Carcasonne, Puerto Rico, and Settlers of Catan. I also have San Juan, Guillotine, and some Pirate card game that is pretty good. I have also been playing Pirates of the Caribbean Game of Life with some foster kids. I like games like this that help them with their reading and arithmatic. It is fun letting 6 and 7 year olds be the banker. I used to always win and would tell one of my foster kids that "it doesn't matter who wins as long as we are all having fun". Well one day I was on a losing streak and after every game you can guess what she told me. My mother in law would break out laughing every time she said it.

Attius, my dad is the one who's taken the time to do research on games, hunt down obscure fun ones, etc. Every Christmas (when my mom was still living around here), he'd give one to several gifts to the family from "Santa". Those were always the games he'd found for us. Sucks that I'm gonna have to reacquire lots of games when we move - won't be able to just borrow his. Coincidentally though, the couple my family always plays with will be moving to the DC area soon too! And they have lots of good ones

It's funny that there's some games that my dad will probably always beat me on - the knowledge based ones like Trivial Pursuit. He just knows so much damn stuff, and my memory is crap so I'm always forgetting anything new I learn. But I usually out-plot him on the strategic stuff, so it balances out. It's definitely great to be able to do as a family (though we also did computer games together as I grew up too).

Averna: I hope to raise my daughter in the same environment, playing chutes and ladders and moving up to the next more advanced and deeper experiance.. I am really looking forward to the day that she out thinks me, I don't mean get lucky on a roll, I mean hit me in a way I didn't see coming.. I will be very proud on that day. I have to admit I have skipped all of the rio grande games.. no idea why.. I have seen em all, just not played them..

Breygon: Lol in the 70's sir I was trying not to poop my pants, but I did play AH games a lot in the 80-90's I have an original unpunched Starship troopers I got off of ebay several years back for like 7$.. The AH games go for nothing.. I am missing my copy of Titan from the 90's It is gone lol.. I hope one of my friends from back home has it.. They have rereleased it, and I was like Titan wow.. people at the game store are like hmm wonder what this game is like / about... man I played that game to death..

Did you every play Civilazation? That feels like a predeccessor to TI3000. I played that a lot, but games could run 24 hours easy
lol..

I also played Star Fleet battles for years.. I wonder why that game died, best written game I have ever seen, never a rule argument in my group ever, and man what a deep game...
Ah to be young have no resonponsabilities other then school, or making the rent.. to only work 40 and be free the rest of time lol..

This is bringing back a lot of happy memeories, and of people I hadn't thought of in more then 15 years lol..

attius wrote:
Hell I have played old School hex style avalon hill games with the best of them.. But somehow the little plastic peices hold my imagination longer..