List games your family own but no longer play

Board games mainly, but card games, dice games, etc., included.

1. Cluedo (AKA Clue) - first played it when I was 8, would have won if the rules had been explained properly. Still annoyed everyone. Played maybe 3-4 times since. Such is the rancour held towards this game that I suspect that it's been given away.
2. Game of Life - I always win, ending up in the Millionaire's mansion. Everyone else ends up broke. Not played since 1990.
3. Scotland Yard - game was bought, played three times in total over a four hour period. I won all three times. Father point blank refused to ever play it again. Possibly languishing with the aforementioned Cluedo on a high shelf somewhere in a charity shop back room.
4. 221B Baker Street - played through all the scenarios included with the basic game. Frequent allegations of cheating. Option to buy expansion packs resulted in an argument in the shop which nearly resulted in us getting thrown out. Pointless as everyone always took the same route around the board anyway. Annoying (to me) as I'd always arrive back at said titular London residence last, thereby robbing me of the chance to win even though often I'd figured out the solution before everyone else.
5. Sorry! - how can a simple parchesi style game cause so many rows? Perhaps it was the sarcastic way people said "sorry!" just before boffing one of your pawns back to the start? Played half a dozen times, now resides at that great jumble sale in the sky.
6. Payday - roundly considered by all to be boring and a waste of time. Seems that the designers had tried to make a game that ended in a close result. All that happened was that people were indignant, claiming things like "If I'd have rolled a 3 instead of a 4 a dozen turns ago, I would have won!"
7. Risk - I will always cherish the half an hour of tranquil calm while we sat around the table removing tiny plastic soldiers/cannons/horses from their moulding sprues. Then a huge argument erupted over the correct interpretation of the rules. Never actually got to play a game.
8. Monopoly - with my family's extended rules, games often lasted for 3-4 hours. No-one seems to have the stamina anymore.
9. Masterbrain - ancient Trivial Pursuit type game that due to said ancient-ness no-one knew the answers to.
10. Word Mastermind - similar to the coloured peg Mastermind except with four letter words. Potty mouthed passive aggression frequently followed.

Oh man, my mom would always buy the clearance board games, or games from places like Big Lots and Grocery outlet. Really mediocre games no one has heard of, there's at least 20 in my mom's closet. I should call her and ask her what they all are.

There was one board game that had about 25 big cards with busy detailed horror vacuii pictures on each side. One was cartoonier sorts of drawings, the other side kind of airbrushy fantasy style art (some of these were declared by my parents top be a little too risque to be put into play but I'm sure they'd fly by anyone else's radar). And then there were little lists of things you had to find in each picture within a time limit, whoever found the most things won that round. This one I liked a lot but I can't remember the name of it. It came out some time in the early or mid '90s.

My dad had "The Peter Principle Game."

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How you played it was you asked your dad if he'd teach you how to play the Peter Principle Game and he said no, followed by a warning that if you opened it and lost any of the pieces he'd kick your ass.

Jacqueline Wilson The Board Game - I have no strong opinions on which boys I fancy at school
Trivial Pursuit Globetrotter Edition - It's no fun for anybody else playing me at Triv
High School Musical Date Game - Fed up of Ryan not putting out

lol @ abbott's dad b/w <3 @ abbott

most of the games my family owns fall more into the category of "good games we used to play a lot but haven't dusted off in a while" rather than "bad or frustrating games we refuse to play ever again"; but I'm sure I can think of some examples of the latter if I put my mind to it...

my family never played any games whatsoever.

scrabble cos two brothers learnt all the 2 letter words so fuckem

3-4 hours seems kind of short for a Monopoly game

^^^ that looks pretty awesome actually

And in the category of "games that look awesome but are tediously boring"...

17. Microdot - an awesome looking spy based board game. was stacked on top of the dining room trophy cabinet underneath the Scrabble, but never played. Finally at a loose end one Christmas we played it. It was boring, despite all the nifty plastic tokens in the shape of wirecutters/ladders/briefcases/passports. I feel sure that it's probably knocking around in the boxroom - might be worth a few quid as it's a more or less mint condition example of mid70's Cold War paranoia.

18. Sigma File - another awesome looking spy based board game. The atmospheric introduction in the instruction manual was about the only exciting thing about it though. Actual gameplay involved paying bribes to people in a process something akin to double entry book-keeping.

(I mean 'The Peter Principle' board game looks awesome)

Mousetrap: lost the stick for the basket after the first game, then spend half the second game looking for the silver ball, then sometime before the third game brother decides the silver ball is cool and he keeps it in his bedroom and won't give it back so we say fuckit and never play the stupid game again. Too many bloody pieces.

^^^ same game, except everyone (including adults) just wants to assemble the trap and dick around with it rather than play the actual game properly. When the game is played properly, everyone ends up in the circular bit of track at the end, and it's totally down to random dice rolls who wins/who loses. Bulky nature of the box meant that it was often given away to charity. Practically every charity shop in the UK has a Mousetrap game somewhere.

20. Kerplunk - "No way, it's going to stop raining any minute"

21. Mastermind. My brother and sister turned it into Battleship, I don't know if our family ever played it the way it was intended to be played.

Microdot was alright!

everyone got laserjet since innit

22. Taboo. Mum told us that we probably shouldn't play the game with friends or relatives, because my brother, sister and I all talked in this weird code where we would *always* guess what word the other one had. "Arty girl! Always wore velvet pants!" "Dove! Melanie Dove!"...stuff like that. Mum felt it was mean that no-one else ever won the game. But we still played it amongst ourselves occasionally when we were bored.

23. Yahtzee - very elaborate packaging for what is essentially five dice.

24. Feudal

http://www.gamepile.com/images/3m0801.jpg

Very underrated game, but I can't find it in my parents' house.

I wish I had a copy of this

http://www.sircollectalot.co.uk/images/uploads/north_sea_oil.JPG

it was well dope.

Omnia's big thing was they made games with no dice.

26. "Big Book Of Board Games" - a large book, each page of which was a board game, with the facing page containing the rules. Except that all the games were "roll a dice and move a counter around the board", with the only difference being "you're a jockey on a horse!" or "you're in a spacerocket!"

Ha, we were at my in-laws for Thanksgiving (canada) the other weekend and it is always somewhat awkward with all the relatives after the first hour when conversation dries up, so my husband went down to the basement and dragged up all their old board games and we had a blast. I won Game of Life once, then lost the second time. We also played Clue and Trivial Pursuit and Sorry! as well as a bunch of card games. Fun times.

My family had WILDLIFE, which was a huge hit for me when I was little since it required little skill. Basically you roll the dice and move around a board which is really an atlas of the world, and you're collecting animals for your zoo. It was really cool and taught 5-year-old me the names of lots of animals like the macaw and the ring-tailed lemur.

We also had the Wheel of Fortune board game but I think we played it about twice.

I remember the Wheel of Fortune game being lame. There was like a board with little paper flaps and it was very spindly and annoying and nowhere near as fun as it seemed on tv.

We didn't have the Game of Life, but my friends did and my favorite thing was the spinning thing.

I can't write in clear sentences btw

28. TV Times Television Quiz Game - woeful Triv knock-off, except based around then current ITV programmes.

29. A card game from Discovery Toys that was like Top Trumps for the supercars of the early-to-mid '80s. There was a pic of the car, then some specs like engine size, 0-60 time, and so on. Cards included the Aston-Martin Bulldog, the Lamborghini Countach, don't remember the rest. We never referred to these as anything other than "The car cards!".

30. I still love this game. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/dantiques/45000b/45919.jpg

phase one: traveler: go around the world and collect appropriate stuff (mangos from cuba, wool from england, steel from the u.s.)

phase two: pirate: try to steal the treasure from other players by passing them on the game board while simultaneously secreting your own stash by landing via exact count in greenland

31. Mystery Mansion

32. Mine A Million
http://www.sircollectalot.co.uk/images/uploads/Mine_a_millionsmall.jpg

I guess my parents bought this before I was born, or maybe it was a present. As a kid I would often look at the box thinking how awesome it must be because I liked the little plastic ships and lorries and mine derricks, but every time I asked my dad for a game he'd have some excuse not to. Eventually a friend came round and I asked if I could play it with my friend and man oh man what a dull game. But! Plastic barges!

oops.
http://www.sircollectalot.co.uk/images/uploads/Mine_a_millionsmall.jpg

looks pretty cool imo

Mum bought us this deck of cards that had trivia questions on them, and a section of them were literature. I swear, every single to everys single question in the literature section was "Robert Burns". My brother would only ever pull the cards out when he wanted to piss us off.

gah I can't type today: should be 'every single answer to every single question'

scattergories, sadly :(

Games I fondly remember even though we always played by severely homebrewed rules cz otherwise nothing happens for the first hour, and even with the house rules I would still get bored halfway through and wander off: 4,000 AD and Buccaneer
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/dantiques/26000b/26784.jpg
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again, probably this is because I liked the box and the little plastic counters etc (space game's counters do not resemble spaceships or spacemen in any way, sadly, but are tiny rubbery neon nubs which I found fascinating all the same; pirate game comes with little plastic gold bars and gems to plunder, arrrr)

Oh we had Buccaneer, absolutely loved the little treasures and the sailing boats. Dece game too iirc

33. Class Struggle

not sure this game was even designed to play tbh, i think we just own it for lulz.

We gave our old board games away. We played a lot of chess but we still have several chess sets, I haven't played in a long time. Scrabble of course is my favorite. I used to love LIFE, the closer the game is to real life the more I like it. LIFE had promissory notes and fire insurance and a little poor house and all of that. My mom and I loved Mille Bournes, an auto race-themed card game in French. Oh, we had a game with marbles called Aggravation that I still LOVE!

I still play board games with my family but they never want to play Monopoly or Life or Clue, which were and are my favorites. When I get together with family they always want to play trivia games and I hate those.

Co-incidentally I saw a Super Mastermind in a charity shop today.

battleships
frustration, which was LARGE needing two hands to press down on the big dome dice clicker thing
downfall
frogger - vid game
3d tomy tronic spaceinvadersthing - vid game

oh i, mastermind too

in fact we had about three different versions of it

d tomy tronic spaceinvadersthing - vid game

This thing...

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/tomytronic-4x3.jpg

39. Connect 4 - yank the release lever and run away when it looks like you're going to lose.

40. Buckaroo - all the classic ingredients: small missing pieces, accusations of cheating ("You bumped the table and triggered it!"), easily broken mechanism, tedious to set up...

41. (but not half as tedious as) Some game that I can't remember the name of. But it was a small wooden frame, with a bar at one end that was attached to a long spring. The gap between the bar and the interior of the frame was filled with plastic circular discs. The object was to remove the discs one at a time, without the tension of the spring/bar cause all the discs to fly up into the air. That probably doesn't make much sense. Anyway it always took a long time to set up a game, as the discs would keep popping out of the frame as more were loaded into it. ~10 year old snoball said something like "there should be a bleedin' latch to hold the bar still" - now the modern version of the game has such a latch, in the shape of a hand.

What's that game with the little bell and cards that have various grains like wheat and flax, and a card of a bull? That's another one my dad wouldn't teach me to play but that I hid in the closet to secretly stare at bcz wtf did you do with all this grain???

A commodities trading board game???

^yes abbott, my family played that. it was like a commodities exchange.

It didn't even have a board, it was just these cards and a bell.

lot's of yelling in that game

Pit!

http://watsonthecat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mediumcontrol_pit_game_002.jpg

another one we played

http://www.sircollectalot.co.uk/images/uploads/masterpiece.jpg

ANTI-MONOPOLY! You play a trust buster! We could never figure out how to play it.

I like Mayfair's railroad games but my fam won't play them anymore. ;_;

Pit!!! I had that too! Don't forget Candyland!

Oops. Candyland and other favorites still available

omg i want class struggle and antimonopoly!

played a fair bit of mastermind with my dad over the years but we thought it got kind of monotonous. maybe we needed the super upgrade? we also liked mancala and abalone

http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/mastermind.jpg

pit also famous from freaks & geeks right?

We don't have it anymore, but this was my absolute favorite game for YEARS.

http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic204975.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrY7MWEkwE
"...and I was victorious" - lit up like a Christmas Tree Dark Tower, more like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB4dhA5rmxI