On Aug 20, 2014, Bob1Dog wrote:
We haven't played a board game in decades, but when we last did, it was during the Trivial Pursuit days, which to this day remains my favorite board game. Though as kids we DID play a lot of Monopoly. While I haven't played that for probably about fifty years, I imagine I would still think is one of the best also.

On Aug 20, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote:
I used to love the Avalon Hill/Sports Illustrated games...Statis Pro Baseball, Title Bout, and Bowl Bound probably being my favorites. Played some of the military games - Tactics II, Panzer Leader. Also loved Stratego and Risk. And of course chess, which occupied a coule of years of my life on a full-time basis (before I discovered that bridge is a better game).

On Aug 20, 2014, Orville_Smith wrote:
The board game I still play is a game which is quite obscure because it was published only once, back during the 1970s, which is when I bought it. It's called RESCUE, in which the objective is to rescue stranded people. Its appeal to me is that it's co-operative, that is, players have to HELP each other in order to achieve the highest possible score, which is a collective-type score. So we are NOT competing against each other. After all, if we are engaged in an actual rescue-operation, we would Not compete but collaborate. So that's the principle of that particular game.

You mentioned ACQUIRE. Although I've never played it, I know it's one of the classics, invented as it was by the genius Sid Sackson. The late Mr. Sackson is still acknowledged as the Thomas Edison of Games, since he invented more games than any other person, literally hundreds of games. They include the many that were published in many issues of GAMES magazine which still continues to be published. That is, the magazine continues to be published, but to get those games that Mr. Sackson invented, one has to find old back-issues of that magazine, which is so very hard to do. I myself still have some of those issues from the 1970s, and wonder if anybody else does.

The tragedy of Mr. Sackson's demise is that he had many UNpublished manuscripts of games that he had invented, but when he passed away, those prototypes disappeared or were acquired by private collectors. Many gamers wanted to make a Museum to preserve those games, but that never came to fruition. Not only the Unpublished games but also those in the many back-issues of GAMES magazine should have been published as a Compilation, but sadly never were.

On Aug 20, 2014, NYCTwister wrote:
I play Go, Chess and Backgammon, primarily over the Internet now. As a young teen I played Acquire and I LOVED it.

On Aug 21, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote:
They sure do...robbery becomes shoplifting, bullet wounds in the back end up moving, and providing video footage becomes character assassination! But as the saying goes, a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich, so I suspect we'll be halfway to the preordained "justice" outcome before too long.