Post by Nonsuch Ned on Jan 24, 2020 20:17:45 GMT
Most family games were for visiting relatives. I played crazy amounts of games with my cousins when we visited my grandmother on the farm... TV was not something you sat in front of at Grandma's. Sorry was probably the most often played...and that hangman type game where you spelt a word on a plastic platform and take turn guessing each others words letter by letter. As my cousins were all girls I also got roped into Mystery Date a couple times.
I don't know why it's a "Mennonite game" but if you got enough together they'd always play the bidding card game ROOK (somewhere between Bridge and Euchre).
My parents liked to play Scrabble semi-regularly for awhile and my father played these solo games where he played with the tiles to determine what the absolute highest scores he could come up with.
I played a lot of games with my neighbor friends. We loved Clue[do], Stratego, and would occasionally attempt to play Trivia Pursuit but I tended to slaughter them and they didn't quite enjoy that (not to insult them, I was just a bit advanced in "trivial" matters). Even worse was this awesome Geographic Trivia game by the makers of Trivial Pursuit called UBI. One of the most eccentric games you'll ever play from that time.
Occasionally someone could convince people to play Monopoly but my dad especially hated games like that and it brought out the bad winner and bad loser in everyone. A notable thing about my father is that he never swears, not even fake "fiddlesticks" expressions, but I swear I saw him come close a couple times while playing Monopoly.
IN college in the mid-90's, surrounded by nerd friends meant a lot of Magic The Gathering (but I resisted buying cards myself) and later some of the super-eccentric modern games. Like Settlers of Cataan and those railroad games. In my college town, the friends that stayed there actually formed a gaming community that plays all the time at the "Local" Better World Books where they sell a steady amount of designer games (yes, the online Better World Books has two physical B&M locations in the country and one of them is in Goshen, Indiana).
The physics major / Trekkie friend who was into super-strategy games and tried as hard as he could to get us to play Star Fleet Battles with him and only occasionally succeeded also had a proper mah jong set- THAT I really enjoyed. We could start a game in the morning and end late at night and not get bored. Too bad I never found new groups to play with after we all moved apart.
I don't know why it's a "Mennonite game" but if you got enough together they'd always play the bidding card game ROOK (somewhere between Bridge and Euchre).
My parents liked to play Scrabble semi-regularly for awhile and my father played these solo games where he played with the tiles to determine what the absolute highest scores he could come up with.
I played a lot of games with my neighbor friends. We loved Clue[do], Stratego, and would occasionally attempt to play Trivia Pursuit but I tended to slaughter them and they didn't quite enjoy that (not to insult them, I was just a bit advanced in "trivial" matters). Even worse was this awesome Geographic Trivia game by the makers of Trivial Pursuit called UBI. One of the most eccentric games you'll ever play from that time.
Occasionally someone could convince people to play Monopoly but my dad especially hated games like that and it brought out the bad winner and bad loser in everyone. A notable thing about my father is that he never swears, not even fake "fiddlesticks" expressions, but I swear I saw him come close a couple times while playing Monopoly.
IN college in the mid-90's, surrounded by nerd friends meant a lot of Magic The Gathering (but I resisted buying cards myself) and later some of the super-eccentric modern games. Like Settlers of Cataan and those railroad games. In my college town, the friends that stayed there actually formed a gaming community that plays all the time at the "Local" Better World Books where they sell a steady amount of designer games (yes, the online Better World Books has two physical B&M locations in the country and one of them is in Goshen, Indiana).
The physics major / Trekkie friend who was into super-strategy games and tried as hard as he could to get us to play Star Fleet Battles with him and only occasionally succeeded also had a proper mah jong set- THAT I really enjoyed. We could start a game in the morning and end late at night and not get bored. Too bad I never found new groups to play with after we all moved apart.