Whoever said hero quest! +1 on that. Space crusade. All day long! Risk, that’s quality. Chess yeah, but I’m no master!
So many good games on here... One I didn’t see was... Diplomacy it’s like Risk on crack. Guaranteed to permanently damage friendships
my girl and I play board games and others we have many the kids games sorry, candyland, scrabble, hippo I cant name them all at least 24games we don't have video game we play cards often
It's hard to pick a favorite, but for me it would definitely be a wargame, most likely an old school hex and counter wargame. The Russian Campaign by Avalon Hill is a lot of fun (even if historically inaccurate) and since I play that one more than any of the other games in my collection it is perhaps my defacto favorite. Without a doubt the coolest games in my collection are Fire in the East and Scorched Earth. Together they recreate the entire second world war on the Eastern Front in turns representing 2 weeks, starting June 22 1941 and potentially continuing until December 1944. This is an old school hex and counter wargame with a few square feet of maps, and thousands of playing pieces representing essentially every division (and many smaller units) that took part in the campaigns from Murmansk to the Black Sea, From Warsaw to the Urals. It is my hope to one day play this game with teams. As for non-hex and counter wargames: Pacific Victory by GMT games. Solo narrative driven game in which you command a World War 2 American submarine.
chess is interesting because different pieces have different moves. but its a real brain twisted to try any play against anyone who's any good at it. i don't know too much about most of the others. i've played risk and jupiter risk where you put multiple boards together so more people can play in the same game. i think the ancient game of senet, that archiologists dug up, could be played something like a mashup between parcheesy and chess. my problem with games is that i'm not really interested in the details about war or economics, but in the intersection between infrastructure and environment, and haven't the slightest idea how to make a game about it and haven't really seen one done well. though the kinds of stories i like, fiction about science and engineering that were written in the 70s and 80s, even going back well into the 60s, seemed to handle it reasonably well, usually by the aid of alien settings and cultures.
Little mention of the games from my younger days. Ludo. Snakes and Ladders. Many of my friends played Drafts, but it never interested me. In my early teens I played Chess, since we had a club at school, complete with clocks to play to the maximum time between moves and total for each opponent. When we got married, Monopoly was order of the day and the children joined in. Our son and elder daughter went on to learn chess and both are quite good at it,
My father loved that game, but he died when I was 9 year old, so I never learnt the rules. You reminded me of it for the first time in more than 50 years.
I think I missed out on board games. Maybe it's generational. They may have been more of a thing before I was really aware and capable. I remember one instance of playing Monopoly, but that was pretty much the extent of board games in my life. Scrabble is ok too. I remember playing my grandma in Scrabble.