Board games
Posted in Blog by Twenty Major on April 28th, 2008
I went for a burger yesterday in Rathmines and noticed that a couple sitting behind me were scoffing their food and playing Connect 4. How achingly retro it was.
On the shelves they had other games like Battleship and possibly Cluedo and some others.
I was never a huge fan of board games, preferring instead to kick a football outside, but on rainy days a round or twelve of Battleship was always good, some Operation certainly passed the time and, if you could find all the pieces, Mousetrap was entertaining.
But do kids these days play board games any more? Apart from the standards like Monopoly and stuff, do they still make them?
D7?
Miss!
Yes, they do, my 6 year old loves mousetrap, cluedo, scrabble, chess, draughts, operation, dominos etc - in fact all the games I played when I was a kid too
so much better than the nintendo malarky crap that rots brains.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
schools buy them for rainy days. you’d be amazed how interesting chess became on those days.
power cuts also bring out board games… but you probably never have had them.
did you know nintendo are actually far more evil than their image claims, their legal team are an outstanding shower of bastards.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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racist
April 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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Just reminded me of Mastermind (late 70’s) with those coloured little pegs you used to have to put on the board but kept losing.
shite game
April 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
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Nintendo make video/boardgames. There’s been 9 so far in the MarioParty series alone. The 9 best boardgames ever, I might add.
They are a massive corporation, they constantly innovate, and own some of the biggest franchises in existence. What kind of legal team would you have in those circumstances, B?
Fuckin’ Playstation fans. Just can’t take crippling defeat, can ye?
April 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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I was quite partial to a game of kerplunk from time to time I must admit.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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Board games. Grew up on them. Rainy November Sundays in the seventies, playing home-made monopoly (Coolock-Artane edition!) for hours on end.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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Jesus - how many different editions of home-made monopoly did you have, SG?
It’s fun being pedantic.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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I’d have figured that a man of letters such as yourself would have dabbled in a bit of scrabble from time to time.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
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Monopoly & Trivial Pursuit always got boring. Risk was alright though. Don’t remember any others.
Ninbendo & Bony Gaystation both demand roughly equal portions of Satan’s bulbous cock
April 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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I love a bit of Scrabble, on me Nintendo DS.
No missing pieces, no tidying up, no cheating.
Welcome to the 21st century.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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Ghettopoly, never gets boring.This game is a must have for kids of all ages, i hear they are bringing out a limerick version soon..
http://www.ghettopoly.co.uk/
April 28th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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Monkey Balls - why don’t you fucking go and marry your poxy Nintendo? Then at least after a while you might start banging about it and even score an affair with a glamourous PS3?
April 28th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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start = stop. dammit.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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I bought Mousetrap recently for one of my kids. I had very fond memories of playing this as a really small kid. The fuckers have gone and chnaged it so now you build three different moustarps from the off and its up to the random flush of a toilet (???) to see which one gets set off. It used to be a case of builind it and then kicking the bucket etc etc to see all your hard work come to fruition.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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I love trivial pursuit and scrabble, but never seem to have time for them anymore.
Watched a friend’s kids recently and got out SPOUSE’S Risk and Battleship games. They’d never seen either, because they’re 10 & 12, and were raised on Nintendo. Between the games and the grilled cheese sandwiches I made them, these kids thought they’d died and gone to heaven. They played ALL day. Easiest babysitting job I’ve ever had.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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I love board games, always have and always will. I remember playing such classics as the game of life, ker plunk & frustration on winters nights years ago.
I was also in that burger place in rathmines a while back and the burgers are fucking amazing.
However, there was a couple playing Guess Who the last time i was there, and i remember the missus looking over at me as i was watching them and whispering….CUNTS!
April 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
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Yis should all try your hand at GO. It’s a 2500 year old Chinese game, simple to learn but a bugger to master. Othello ripped it off but isn’t a patch on the original.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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Mr. M and I have always played board games. Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and even Monopoly from time to time.
He hates it when I win.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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Recently got into chess. Always liked risk and scrabble, but am shit at them. I hate it when anyone else wins.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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I when I got bored I ended up playing with myself
Great fun it was…
Then I discovered girls great fun then I discovered women better fun, then I got married..
Back to playing with myself…
April 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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Yahtzee can be good too. Got a score of 655 lately. Chuffed, I was. Got 5 yahtzees which made up 450 of that.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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Did you shout out “Yahtzee” five times so?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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Am i thinking of the right game?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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Not sure. Not aware of the shouty rule. Five dice…?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
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Yeah, dunno. Bit confused now. Think we used to shout yahtzee when playing it as kids, probably made up the rule ourselves. Then it morphed into a general use celebratory word - “just found a fiver, yahtzee!!!”
April 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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I’m unbeatable at connect 4
April 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
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Jo burger Twenty? Fuckers charge about 6.50 for a beer - maybe more. Granted, a large beer, but still.
Went to Real Gormet Burger in Ballsbridge last week…..mmmmmmmm, but no milkshakes. Bastards.
(Oh hail hail!!!! Geritrightupya!!!)
April 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
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i am a nintendo fan mb.
nintendo have been extremely hard on third party developers throughout their history as a videogames manufacturer, and when the playstation came along with cds the other developers jumped at it.
nintendo are also known to treat their employees far worse than the sony ones at least.
nintendo’s law team is famous for how ruthless they are.
and nintendo’s happy kiddy image works pretty hard to hide how in the middle of the last century they made their money from gambling joints and hotels that charged at hourly rates(hint hint).
i’m not being biased by saying any of that, cos it’s all true.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
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I like operation the drinking game. The more you fuck up, the more you drink. Rinse. Repeat.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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I like the mousetrap one where you have to claw out the bit of cheese from yer partner’s ring
April 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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Oh happy day when your 14 year-old scratches out X-Box and writes in Snakes & Ladders in their annual letter to Santy, and then asks you to cook them an organic burger for Christmas dinner.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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You sunk my battleship!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
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I had forgotten how much fun Connect 4 was until I was in Thailand. Prop yourself up on a high stool on a beach bar and within a matter of seconds there’s a bar girl over with her Connect 4 to challenge you. She was very friendly. I think she was trying to chat me up….
April 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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Thailand, eh? Bar “girl”, eh?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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“Friendly”, eh?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
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“Chick with a dick”, eh?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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“Shemale”, eh?
“Shooting eggs out its mangina, eh?”
April 28th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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Yeah, really friendly. She was asking for you Twenty.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
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heh
She really did mean long time!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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I still play Colditz the board game, never like being the Germans though. Does that make me racist?
It’s not made anymore probably because it reminds us of the war. Cue Fawlty Towers quotes.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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You must have left a good impression. You should send her an email.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
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HeroQuest anyone?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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I Loved Escape from from Colditz and I loved been the Germans.
Memories ..
April 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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A deck of cards and a game of switch, just cant be beat.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
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PP, I got in there at 3.44 on stop killing kids(last blog)…
April 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
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Good man Lung - it really is a superb game.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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y’know one game that absolutely f*cking rules?
ball and cup game, perfect in every way
April 28th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
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Games or no games, best burger in this fine city
April 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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Naturally, my favourite board game is Monkey Ball*.
If only someone were to bring out a ‘real-life’ version of it.
*Yes it IS a board game! The levels in it are called boards, and it’s a game. Just because it’s not crap, or half of it’s not lost down the back of the sofa.
Shut up, or I’ll post that video of me and yer Ma doing naked Twister
April 28th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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Theres a pub in innsbruck that has board games in it.
it can get quite messy after a few beers though, and you tend to lose all the pieces.
it’s a bit of a shit idea really.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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I’d imagine you could very easily have a nice board game in your local boozer. So what if a few of the pieces are lost. -Just use substitutes.
“Bishop to The Library, with a dagger”
“Go To Jail. Do Not Pass “GO”. Do Not Collect £200.”
“In the 1934 movie, Bright Eyes, Shirley Temple sang which one of the following;
(A) That’s some good shit, Gollywog!
(B) The Good Ship Lollipop
(C) My Sticky Brown Star
(D) Whatchu talkin’ about Willis?”
“YAHTZEE!!”
April 28th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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I googled GO. It looks good, Lung, but I’d be crap at it. My husband would like it though.
I like Trivial Pursuits and Scrabble and the brutal real-world dynamics of Snakes and Ladders. These all go well with a robust and playful gin. We never play them though. They’re at the back of the cupboard. I might get them out again one of these days. But I’ll probably just forget for another 5 years.
Hungry Hippo’s more my speed these days.
Does anyone remember a card game called Spit? We played it at school and it was a game of speed with two piles between players. You split the rest of the cards and laid them out in groups of their number and could put your cards on the piles, one up or down either way. The object was to get rid of your cards. If the two piles reach the same number you yell Spit! and the other person has to take both piles. I loved Spit.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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eh…….LMM and I got connect4 last week……I assumed she is bored with the sex……
April 28th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
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manuel, what are you saying? This LMM, whoever he or she might be, is trying to enhance your sex-life. My advice, just let it happen. Go with the flow*
Isn’t Connect4 the best sex-game ever? I’m going to import ALL my board games from India from now on. Had a few friends over last weekend, and boy did we have a hoot! My only criticism would have to be that some of the positions are very tricky if you have a bad back like mine. (6/10)
*Unless you are doing “Golden Showers”, in which case you should go against the flow. Otherwise, what’s the point? Eh?
April 29th, 2008 at 12:15 am
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I play real-life games of Risk.
It can be great fun.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
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ProblemChildbride - there’s a great Free download for Go - Google “Igowin”
April 29th, 2008 at 1:22 am
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I go in? Is that a hokey-pokey reference? Or are we back to the ladyboys?
April 29th, 2008 at 4:44 am
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Cheers, maggot.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:08 am
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Oh, I do remember spit very well indeed, problemchildbride. Pure adrenalin, puts you on edge. Always started fights as you acuse your friends of tossing cards or pressing down on the pile so that you can’t put a card down. Great stuff indeed although the young uns always seemed to win with their quick bastard reflexes.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
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I have vague memories of playing Spit at the Gaeltacht… must look up the rules and resurrect it. Except with added drinking.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:45 am
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I played Spit at the Gaeltacht before.
They threw me out for getting my saliva everywhere.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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Nothing on telly? Have a wank, it works for me!
April 29th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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Gerry! You free for a few pints Friday evening?
You know how i need the few litres of Jack Daniels in me before i do the Late Late. Plus you need to pick up some women too.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
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