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Originally posted by Keystoner:
APBA

Wow. My friend had that. Good times.

I played a board game called Conflict and a Civil War game cica early 60"s. Later played a lot of Stratego and Risk.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Anyone else ever play these? (A few of the many I owned and spent hours playing with a couple of similarly-minded friends.)

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Anyone else ever play these? (A few of the many I owned and spent hours playing with a couple of similarly-minded friends.)

Yep, had all those except U-Boat, plus PanzerBlitz, a boatload of Avalon Hill/SPI games, War in the East, Breakout & Pursuit, etc. etc. Plus many years of games included in Strategy & Tactics subscription in the '70s. Still have most of around somewhere, though why I'm doing that is arguable.

Also played a bunch of others non military sim games, some noted above. Monopoly, Risk and Stratego were neighborhood faves and I could get opponents over to play those at a drop of a hat back in the day. One sunny day we had set up tables outside in the yard for a bunch of games, and I wore my favorite mirrored sunglasses....lost every game of Stratego I played that day, which was odd as usually I more than held my own...then my buddies told me that mirrored sunglasses are not what you want to wear, playing Stratego.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Anyone else ever play these? (A few of the many I owned and spent hours playing with a couple of similarly-minded friends.)

Absolutely and I've still got them, all carefully stored in a USMC Footlocker with the arrow head symbol for the 5th tank battalion. Who knows, when I get to the end of the internet I might have some time on my hands.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Had a wooden carom table with cut-outs in the corners and net pockets.

My brother and I won the annual doubles tournament at our local YMCA one year.

Bob

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Anyone else ever play these? (A few of the many I owned and spent hours playing with a couple of similarly-minded friends.)

I owned and played a few different games from Avalon Hill - my favorite by far Kingmaker, The War of the Roses Game. Also had Alexander the Great and Caesar: Epic Battle of Alesia. My neighbor had Tactics II and Diplomacy.

I still have the Kingmaker game.

had plenty of board games,


battles ship,
monopoly
sorry
chopper strike,
tank battle
clue
trouble
operation
scrabble
uncle remus

and some I have surely forgotten,

and a few decks of cards, my grandmother loved to play rummy,

Do you remember Jarts? It was almost a good idea.

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Originally posted by Jimmo952:
Do you remember Jarts? It was almost a good idea.

The Romans had a lot of fun with Jarts/Plumbata. Same thing really.

My brother and I always got board games for Christmas; they were cheap (my parents did not have a lot of money to spend on gifts), and we could share them. Here are some of them-





Also had Monopoly, Stratego, Caroms, etc. We also had one of those "Electric Football" games, with the vibrating field, and little players with felt underneath. Piece of shit game.

But this one was our absolute favorite, played it for years.

Well, I did have "vibration-based" electric football game - with all the little players about an inch or so tall. I retired it to the closet once I discovered the game of "Spin-the-bottle" at all the weiner-roast parties in the neighbor-hood.

Alas, I have neither the football game or the RC cola bottle from those days. (I still have great memories from the bottle fun - the football game good-times have kinda faded out!)

I still have my Sega Game Gear with plenty of games:



I also still have this:

used to play Ogre with my older brother...

Mashing the buttons on one of these beautiful contraptions until it started leaking – pure bliss.

Cooties. About 40 years back when I asked Edna, one of the WW1 Auxilliarys up at the VA Hospital (these were women who served cake and cookies to vets and had intentionally called their organization "Cooties") why they called themselves "Cooties" (an alternative name for Crab Lice), she said, "Why, it's because we attach ourselves to our men".

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Anyone else ever play these? (A few of the many I owned and spent hours playing with a couple of similarly-minded friends.)

I only had Midway. Seems like it took days to complete, and took up the majority of the living room floor. I forget now where it was, but an antique store we visited seemed to have all the Avalon Hill games. I was amazed how many there were. Somewhere we still have it stored away, along with Dogfight, a game I had forgotten until mentioned by erj_pilot.

How about mumbly-peg with a folding Boy Scout pocket knife?

Anyone remember Klackers? I think I still have a bruised wrist from 1977

https://youtu.be/zTB5tsHkCj4

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Anyone else ever play these? (A few of the many I owned and spent hours playing with a couple of similarly-minded friends.)

Yea, spent way too much time with these. 3rd Reich with friends at least one Saturday per month.