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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Morning all, it's hump day today so post midday it's downhill all the way to the weekend!
I recently played the game of life and was dissapointed, I should have stuck to Hungry Hungry Hippos.
What was your favourite 80's board game?

If you're too young to remember the 80's frankly you can piss off!
(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:28, 115 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
MOUSETRAP!

(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:29, Reply)
My parents never got it for me, that's basically abuse

(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:32, Reply)
We had Mousetrap.
It was terrible after the initial novelty wore off.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:33, Reply)
You missed out there :-( you should sue yer folks.
MOUSETRAP FTW!

And Connect4.
(I helped save b3ta! blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:34, Reply)
Connect 4
guarented to annoy any one watching TV, with its rattling and plinking.

Good game though
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:37, Reply)
I am rubbish at connect 4 can't be arsed to comtemplate all the possibilities

Chess could be a long long way away...
(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:41, Reply)
We'll break you in with checkers

(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:32, Reply)
Trivial Pursuit
I still love it, its so trivial, but I must win.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:35, Reply)
^^This
The only problem is that the questions are all either stupidly hard and out of date, or you get the new ones, and they're just too easy!
(I helped save b3ta! Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:44, Reply)
I can never win this as the pink segment remains elusive, this is why you need a girl on your team

(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:46, Reply)
Sports and pastimes was my weak subject
I would spend hours trying to get the bloody orange cheese.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:00, Reply)
I was only ever any good
at the science and nature questions. I know fuck all about anything else.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:05, Reply)
I was OK on all the rest
But got caught out when I played a newer edition with loads of soap questions.

I was buggered then.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:10, Reply)
Shouldn't have played for forfeits with a bunch of shirters
You know you wanted it you slaaaaag...
(I helped save b3ta! The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:06, Reply)
I'm the same with the orange
fucking horseracing questions. No one knows shit about that.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:05, Reply)
i can't remember a game of trivial pursuit that didn't end with my wife giving up 'because it's boring'
which translates as
'you always win, you are clearly winning again, so i'm not going to give you hte satisfaction'
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:08, Reply)
Buccaroo! and Operation! and Frustration!
Basically anything with an exclaimation mark in the name. And Guess Who.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:44, Reply)
Frustration had the poppy dice in the centre
*pop* .......*pop*!
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:01, Reply)
It was Ludo with a pop-a-matic dice

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:03, Reply)
When I was a kid on my dad's ship
they had a different version of Frustration, it was called Trouble! and I only found it was called Frustration over here a few years ago. When I mentioned Trouble people would look at me like I was retarded.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:15, Reply)
you are retarded

(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:16, Reply)
and Frustration
Ludo was usually in one of those "Games Compendiums" with Snakes 'n' Ladders and checkers.
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:37, Reply)
Risk
love risk, my friends and I used to have epic 2-3 day games of world domination
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:50, Reply)
risk is more boring than monopoly
except for IRKUTSK
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:58, Reply)
Seconded
For the dastardly breaking of pacts and dramatic twists. Good laugh!
(I helped save b3ta! whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:24, Reply)
Diplomacy was a better game if you like that
the ONLY way to conquer a country was through guile and smooth-talking.
(I helped save b3ta! The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:59, Reply)
i'm off work tomorrow and friday
so it's nearly the wekend for me!

the pinnacle of 80's board games is mousetrap, especially if you don't play it properly, but just build the course and keep setting it off
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 8:58, Reply)
that reminds me
Domino Ralley!
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:01, Reply)
a mate had domino rally, but i never got to play with it
he claimed his mum didn't want him to lose all the bits
but i think secretly he just didn't want me to have a go

so we used to just play 6million dollar man in the garden instead
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:06, Reply)
With a short week next week I don't know why you bother to go in at all.
Lucky bastard.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:02, Reply)
i'm only in monday next week
i officially finish here on the 31st but i've got a holiday on tuesday, and i'm pulling a sickie on wednesday
then i'll be off until my new job starts on the 6th

rah!
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:05, Reply)
OK, so you are hardly bothering
Rub it in, bastard.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:08, Reply)
Next week is a two day week!

(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:10, Reply)
Not you as well
Does anyone work in this country anymore?
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:11, Reply)
I have a five day week
and I work in the evenings as well, although my evening job is fun so it doesn't really count. But I hate my 9-5 more than most people hate Mr Motivator, so it evens out.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:17, Reply)
Yahtzee!
Used to spend hours playing that. It had a faux-velvet board. Quality.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:06, Reply)
red flock
and you could get word yahtzeee which was blue (and shit)
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:12, Reply)
GUESS WHO!
Oh the excitement. It was sooo good. I think I even have travel Guess Who, lest we have to leave the house and risk having to stop playing Guess Who.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:06, Reply)

www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03/how-to-win-guess-who-with-one-question/
(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:11, Reply)
ha
I never noticed that. How un-PC of Hasbro. They've probably added more black people to it since then. And maybe a Jap as well.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:21, Reply)
We used to ask questions like 'Does she look like a lesbian?' and 'Does he look like he's taking a shit?'
This probably explains a lot about my adulthood.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:22, Reply)
When we used to play as kids (before the 80s)
I found that most board games ended in violence, tantrums and a sense of dissapointment.

They set me up for life in general.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:07, Reply)
my sister (who is now an accountant)
used to make me play Monopoly when I was barely old enough to understand it and I used to hide money under the board so I would go bankrupt and wouldn't have to play anymore. When she found out she was soooo angry.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:26, Reply)
Our set included a card which said
Give me one hundred pounds or have a chinese burn.
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:30, Reply)
haha
she would have told on me if I'd done that. I used to get the 2nd prize in a beauty contest way more than her though and I would totally rub it in her not-even-second-best face.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:37, Reply)
Any one remeber a game where you had to guide a ball bearing around a course?

It ended with a sort of long armed catapult that slammed the ball into a small bell.
(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:09, Reply)

the ball my balls
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:13, Reply)
Mousetrap

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:14, Reply)
No!
It was mecahinised I think had had lots of obstacles taht you had to negotiate the ball bearing around, see saws, mazes etc
(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:16, Reply)
Oh I know the one you mean!!
Screwball Scramble.
farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/2405558676_8829dcfbb6.jpg
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:20, Reply)
10 points to Roota!
It looks so simple now...
(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:40, Reply)
Screwball Scramble!
Its the one I was thinking of. I had a mini battery powered version too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmbMSrsZVQ
(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:21, Reply)
My brother hated me because I could do that and he couldn't.
Now he's a millionaire. In your face, me!
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)
Is he single?

(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
Nope.
You're too good for him anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:28, Reply)
ooh what does he do?
if it's "he worked in a job that he hated until he was 25 and then made millions selling corsets and cupcakes" it would give me hope.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
Less corsets and cupcakes
and more conservatories and orangeries.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:29, Reply)
how does one
sell an orangery? In fact, how does one procure an orangerie?
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:33, Reply)
They're like conservatories
but more posher and expensiver.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:35, Reply)
do they actually have anything to do
with oranges?
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:36, Reply)
Yes.
The base is built from oranges which have been freeze-dried and compacted into bricks. The frames are made from orange tree timber. The glass is made from orange peel.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:41, Reply)

www.craftmasters.co.uk/html/what_s_an_orangery_.html
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:45, Reply)
thanks for the info
although less thanks for the LIES in the first response.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:11, Reply)
from Roger the Orangerier

(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:39, Reply)
I totally rememebr this!
The first obstacle was a bridge that pivited in about five places and over excited bashing of the control could and often would send the ball flying off to unknown places.
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:22, Reply)
I could do it in about 15 seconds.
if you're good you can jump half the course.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:23, Reply)
Men are so impatient.
Which is why you suck at foreplay
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:26, Reply)
fore-what?

(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
Women always say men suck at foreplay
but I find the opposite. Men spend ages giving their lady the foreplay and the lazy bitches give very little back. Its not like in porn where they spend 10 minutes sucking their man off before he goes down on her for 30 seconds.
(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:31, Reply)
Another reason
why porn is not like real life. I'll add it to
* Plumbers are never hunky Austrians
* Velour cushions are not sexy and stain really badly
* Pizza delivery guiys are never 6 foot with amazing skin
* Sex in a cockpit is difficult not sexy
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:41, Reply)
You've been watching posh porn.

(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:47, Reply)
Yes
Falula Tabetha Potteryminge the Third and her adventures at Goodwood
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:51, Reply)
I actually prefer to give than to receive

(I helped save b3ta! Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:35, Reply)
Connect 4
but I hate board games. Every christmas/birthday some fucker would buy me a board game, just what an only child in a remote village needs (I do have a brother, but he is over 5 years older than me so was always off doing big kid stuff).
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:10, Reply)
Cluedo or Trivial Pursuit
I played The Game of Life with some scally family once but I have no idea what it meant because they were swearing and having chapped lips at each other.
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:15, Reply)
Connect 4
Monopoly and Operation. Game of Life and Cluedo can feck right off...
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)
Cluedo rocks!

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:26, Reply)
Did you like going down the secret passage?
I know I did
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
Purely...

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
Was that one of the murder weapons
In the Jamie Bolger special edition?
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)
That's right

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:28, Reply)
Yowzers!

(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:30, Reply)
What, too soon?

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:31, Reply)
I think 17 years makes it fair game.

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:34, Reply)
Yeah, stick to Maddie jokes
or Hollie & Jessica

:D
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:34, Reply)
There there, you're both wrong
the correct answer is, "all board games are a boring waste of time"
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:28, Reply)
who's a Grumpy Gus this morning?

(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:30, Reply)
I wondered that...

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:31, Reply)
Oops
sorry, it's hangover-o-clock at the moment. I'll try to be more cheery..."GO BOARDGAMES! WOO!"
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:33, Reply)
That's the spirit!
*offers Opal Fruits*
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:34, Reply)
Ta, have some pacers*
*green & white stripey chewey mints
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:37, Reply)
*ice skates all over the place in me green n' white suit*

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:37, Reply)
How did the saxxing go?

(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:40, Reply)
Boss!
I can play scales.
It occasionally sounds like a goose but that is to be expected. Right?
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:41, Reply)
Splendid
Tenor or Alto?
(I helped save b3ta! Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:42, Reply)
Alto :)

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:02, Reply)
yes
in fact in the olden days, poor people used to play a goose if they couldn't afford a real saxophone.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:42, Reply)
I like this.
What a wonderful mental image.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:54, Reply)
I can't afford a saxophone yet
So I shall bear this in mind thanks Kitty!
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:06, Reply)
I just remember the advert enthusiastically saying "STRIPES!"
I guess people were more easily impressed in the 80's

Edit - www.youtube.com/watch?v=61l4F3Q-uBg&feature=related
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:42, Reply)
Few people remember Pacers
Well done!
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:28, Reply)
yay!
now you can play in the treehouse with us. The password is cherries.
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:35, Reply)
Great!
i'll bring my Beano annual and some panda pop
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:39, Reply)
omg
it'll be the best summer EVER
(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:42, Reply)
We'll need a slippery slide as well

(I helped save b3ta! Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:43, Reply)
you just have to make everything dirty don't you?

(I helped save b3ta! Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)
I'll already in my shellsuit
It's purple with a pineapple on
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:43, Reply)
I never had a shellsuit
*breaks down in tears*
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:46, Reply)
When I cracked my head open
I bled all over mine and I was properly gutted.

I'm just glad i wasn't in my beano print charlottes (the shorts not the onions)
(I helped save b3ta! TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:53, Reply)
culottes and shallots
You're welcome!
(I helped save b3ta! The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:28, Reply)
Dammit I want to say Space Crusade but that didn't come out until 1990.
*geek and proud*
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:45, Reply)
Talisman!
That was 80s, wasn't it?

Ooh, I fancy a game now.
(I helped save b3ta! The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:46, Reply)
That got re-released recently I think.
Top game.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:49, Reply)
I had I think 3 of the supplements
I say had, it's in the cupboard.
(I helped save b3ta! The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Oooh, vintage.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:11, Reply)

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