Family fun.

Category: Miscellaneous | Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:36 am

The game was well received yesterday by the fourth player (who hadn't seen it before), and with a few more tweaks of the rules to bend it more towards strategic play, it's becoming quite addictive (another quality that I think is a vital ingredient.)
Isn't it a shame that so many games now are digitally non-tactile software operated? Where's all that family interaction gone?
I vote for a comeback of those pleasant Sunday afternoons and evenings around a table, with a few drinks, and something more than just a whining discdrive, square eyes and a sore button punching finger! What's all that about?

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Gardenstew wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:50 am:

Glad to hear the fourth player was impressed Pete!

I've recently got back into playing non-digital games, particularly Chess. Also Yatzy, Trivial Pursuit, Draughts (Checkers), Mastermind. Gonna start plaing Go soon too.

I was brought up on a mixture of digital and non-digital gaming. I'll always fondly remember playing games of Ludo, Snakes & Ladders, Game Of Life and Scrabble. I think it is sad that a lot of kids nowadays miss out on these :(

pondlady wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:21 pm:

When I was growing up, a million years ago, pre TV, computer,etc., we played all sorts of board, card and outside games. We actually found friends and played outside with each other! Good on you, Pete, for getting back to that.

eileen wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:23 pm:

Pete we love strategy games in our family and often have our youngest son and his girlfriend over. We can, literally, spent hours playing just one board game and thoroughly enjoy it!! I think interaction with other family members, away from games consoles and computers, is the way games should be played.
Keep us informed about how your progress with your game is doing.

jubabe296 wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:12 pm:

Pete my family still plays card and board games also!! It's sooo much fun to sit down and enjoy the game and mostly each other.We like to play Scrabble,UNO,Skip-bo,Yahtzee,Clue and Monopoly! The boys love to play chess, but I don't know how to play! Unfortunely nowadays game nights don't happen very often, everyone is always too busy!!<sigh>
I think I should start a mandatory game night around here and when you're new game comes out at the stores we can enjoy it together!!

devonpete wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:19 pm:

So, it's a big thumbs up so far for a revival and/or continuation of those halcyon days of friendly feuding around the living room table.
Apart from my earliest recollections of playing Ludo, etc, one game called 'Everest' got us hooked for a time (first one to the top.)
'Escalado' then came along (horse racing with a vibrating 'racecourse' and metal horses), followed by 'Scoop' (be the first to fill a newspaper with stories and adverts), and 'Buccaneer' (an hour filled with shouts of 'Attack!' as you come alongside your opponent's ship and steal half his treasure of plastic gold bars, cut diamonds and barrels of rum.) Great stuff. Some of it may be childish, but we're all kid's underneath, once the veneer of sophistication is scraped away.

cajunbelle wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:02 pm:

We used to play a lot of board games with the girls, but not so much anymore.

Growing up we played cards a lot, all we could afford. Then one year we got a game set with Chinese checkers, checkers, backgammon, and others I don't now remember. We also had monopoly and thought we were in heaven.

I hope your game is a success Pete. It is nice being able to track it's beginnings.

Desert Rat wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:04 pm:

I say,"Hooray foe board games." I think the family interaction is so very important for children. Having said that, I must say I play no games at all anymore. However, I hate to see kids totally connected with an electronic gizmo of any type. It just removes them from the mainstream. Television was bad enough.
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toni wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:08 pm:

We used to have family game night with Amanda, but she has other things to do now. We usually played Yahtzee, Sorry, Double 9 Dominoes and/or Boggle.
She and Randy played checkers a lot. Before that she and I played more games of Candy Land and Hungry,Hungry Hippo than I care to remember.
The grandsons love Clue, Battleship,Chess and Checkers.

devonpete wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:14 pm:

Talking about 'Buccaneer' and pinching treasures, here's what's been happening lately on the other side of Devon (South).

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22012007/356/looters-converge-stricken-ship-s-cargo.html

I wouldn't have minded a couple of BMW motorbikes myself. The mind boggles.

glendann wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:22 pm:

I do love board games lots.
It teaches so much more to kids and helps adults understand their kids better.
I use to play Atari I enjoyed it but I have a Pac Man hand from it and it bothers me lots.

devonpete wrote on Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:03 pm:

Actually my remark about the motorbikes was inexcusably flippant. Following TV news coverage I've now learned that the beached ship is an environmental time bomb. Let's hope they can get all that toxic stuff off quickly.