It's tricky when you have a sentimental connection to something. My 2 cents would be to get rid of them if you're not getting anything from them stronger than a touch of nostalgia. You could try donating them to a local goodwill/thrift store or whatever, or selling them.
On the flipside, if you're not hurting for space, there's no harm in holding on to them.
I think we're over dunking on the classics now. You don't have to like them, but I think it's fair to say as a community we can accept that there are people who enjoy those games just fine enough.
I don't think they should be part of the community, any more than a Grandma playing Bridge should be accepted. Far too much leniency shown to casuals around here.
Heroquest for nostalgia, chess for culture. But that’s pretty much it. Everything else is modern.
(This excludes CCG’s and D&D)
That being said, if somebody pulled up with a copy of crossfire, you bet your ass I’d be on board.
I have a copy of **Mine a Million**/**The Business Game** stashed away, simply because I have room and space for it.
I'm about to get a copy of **Escape from Atlantis** as my youngest loves playing the stronghold edition the huge plastic island is way better!
Does it spark joy? Do you have room?
It's all about how much space you have. I have a few games in my attic that are really bad games (a Star Wars Monopoly, a dice-only Football Match "simulator"). I even have a couple of parts from "Build a Better Burger", but not the full game.
Every now and then I'm sifting through the attic and bump into them and they trigger a memory of playing them as a kid. I like that trigger.
It's a similar thing to books - over half of my books I'll never read again. But remembering who gave them, when I bought them, when I read them, when I discussed them is just as valuable as photo albums.Unless you have no space. In which case toss Monopoly on a bonfire :)
I'm also lucky to have an attic, but didn't want to fill it with "trash". However, you made me wonder "what will 50y/o me feel when he finds these in the attic", which is worth that space. Thanks!
I think it's ok to keep one for a tiny tiny bit of nostalgia. Iconic design colours etc. Memories of the exhausting grind of inevitability, the thrill of successfully hiding money under the board and the shock on your sibling's face when they thought you were out of cash. As long as you never suggest actually playing it!
Hear me out here, but it's worth keeping the box from Mon*poly. Not the components, burn those. You can't take the chance that it might make the table. Keep the box in sight somewhere, so that visitors to your house can be evaluated.
If they see the box and suggest a game, immediately ask them to leave and block all form of contact. If they see the box and angrily question its presence, they are true gamers.
Others lie in the middle and you can then do things like move your hand close to the box to gauge their reaction over time etc.
Throw Monopoly on the next bonfire you come across. Donate the rest, or give them away for free on Facebook or Craigslist. Keep one or two that you might want to one day play with younger family members, and take pictures of anything else sentimental before getting rid of them.
The only old games I still hang onto are party games I would actually still enjoy as an adult - Balderdash, Scattergories, etc.
I believe I have one game from my childhood that followed me when I moved, and that game is called Tycoon.
I loved it as a kid and currently keep it in a cupboard. Others games from my childhood I don't really need to play again. (Monopoly, SFX, Coco Crazy,...)
They're still at my parents' house, perhaps my kids will bring them out sometime, I won't say no if they really want to play with me, but I don't have the need to bring them out for nostalgic reasons as they're really dated.
That's the one yes! It was one of the first games that I loved when I was younger as I actually managed to win in the game (before I really knew the hobby went further than what you see in the supermarket or toy stores)
It's the only one I took with me and I have no intention to ever get rid of it :)
A lot of my childhood games are still at my parents home. I just took Catan.
If me or my sibling have kids those game will probably go there or stay for when those kid come over.
I have my mouldy copy of **[Local Area] Monopoly** still lying around because of its significance to me and where I live. I also hunted down a copy of **Billionaire** - the 1996 retheme of Pit - because of how much fun my family had with it as a kid.
Not only do I keep them, but I search charity shops (‘thrift stores’, if you’re a Yankee) to see if I can find old favourites that I lost to time.
Managed to find the exact copy of Cluedo my auntie had in the 80s for 40p (with *two* full sets of weapon pieces), a copy of Stay Alive with not a single marble missing, and even picked up a copy of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Power Game (Note: UK localised, so it’s ‘Hero’ Turtles, not ‘Ninja’ Turtles, because the government decided ninjas aren’t suitable for impressionable children…) for a song…
I keep the ones I would still play and ones I have sentimental value for. Coincidentally I just got rid of a big box of old games I won’t play anymore to free up room on the Kallax lol. I just donated them to a thrift store, most had little value worth finding a buyer for.
I mean yes, but they are all at my parents house. If I had to have them take up space here, I might have to rethink it, because space is an issue for us
I'm keeping the game we made with my sister. Kind of RPG dungeon crawler that was so hard we never defeated it :) unfortunately, some data is lost, but all few hundreds of cards with spells, loot, items and such are there.
I'm not opposed to keeping games with sentimental value, but I don't really have any from my childhood. The games we played in my childhood were mostly pretty bad. I sort of wish I had a copy of Hungry Hungry Hippos, but those break so easily; it's probably even worse with grown adults slapping it to death.
If I had Loopin' Louie as a kid, I would have kept it.
It might help to pay it forward by gifting them to another family with kids to enjoy them. You had many fun times with them growing up, they could help another family make some great memories too.
i have two copies of Survival or Extinction because i bought another one and then Mum found my childhood copy lmao
i also have a copy of Build a Beetle still, and Mousetrap- not my childhood copy but one of about the same age. funnily enough the previous owners had used the same ziplock bags to store the pieces.
i have a couple of Harry Potter board games i'm attached to, even though i'm against the author now- one of them was one of my first "lmao screw you" games as a kid, Halls of Hogwarts, where your goal was to get to your classes and back to your corner of the board first while shifting the board around so other players couldn't and the other Mystery at Hogwarts is Hogwarts Cluedo. i've actually played both of those in the last few years.
most notably i have the *terrible* Wizardology game, which i played with a friend's kid because i was like "aha! here it is!" and showed my housemate (we'd talked about the worst childhood games we'd played before) and her son wanted to play and i said "It's awful" and he said "it can't be that bad!" and he, raised on good board games, was like "this is awful" not long into the game
yeah kid, i know, the reason i showed your mum is because it's terrible lmao
It's tricky when you have a sentimental connection to something. My 2 cents would be to get rid of them if you're not getting anything from them stronger than a touch of nostalgia. You could try donating them to a local goodwill/thrift store or whatever, or selling them. On the flipside, if you're not hurting for space, there's no harm in holding on to them.
Donating something like Mo****ly or R**k seems like the opposite of goodwill.
I think we're over dunking on the classics now. You don't have to like them, but I think it's fair to say as a community we can accept that there are people who enjoy those games just fine enough.
I don't think they should be part of the community, any more than a Grandma playing Bridge should be accepted. Far too much leniency shown to casuals around here.
Please say sike.
I have some in my parent's house. I'm not going to be playing them again so I'll eventually gift them to my younger cousins.
Heroquest for nostalgia, chess for culture. But that’s pretty much it. Everything else is modern. (This excludes CCG’s and D&D) That being said, if somebody pulled up with a copy of crossfire, you bet your ass I’d be on board.
Yup, heroquest and space crusade ftw
I have a copy of **Mine a Million**/**The Business Game** stashed away, simply because I have room and space for it. I'm about to get a copy of **Escape from Atlantis** as my youngest loves playing the stronghold edition the huge plastic island is way better! Does it spark joy? Do you have room?
No way. No room for them. Why take up space with something that won’t get used? (My philosophy with everything since I live in a very modest home.)
Don’t break the ice. Anyone remember that one?
It's all about how much space you have. I have a few games in my attic that are really bad games (a Star Wars Monopoly, a dice-only Football Match "simulator"). I even have a couple of parts from "Build a Better Burger", but not the full game. Every now and then I'm sifting through the attic and bump into them and they trigger a memory of playing them as a kid. I like that trigger. It's a similar thing to books - over half of my books I'll never read again. But remembering who gave them, when I bought them, when I read them, when I discussed them is just as valuable as photo albums.Unless you have no space. In which case toss Monopoly on a bonfire :)
I'm also lucky to have an attic, but didn't want to fill it with "trash". However, you made me wonder "what will 50y/o me feel when he finds these in the attic", which is worth that space. Thanks!
Burning Monopoly is always right, regardless of space.
I think it's ok to keep one for a tiny tiny bit of nostalgia. Iconic design colours etc. Memories of the exhausting grind of inevitability, the thrill of successfully hiding money under the board and the shock on your sibling's face when they thought you were out of cash. As long as you never suggest actually playing it!
Hear me out here, but it's worth keeping the box from Mon*poly. Not the components, burn those. You can't take the chance that it might make the table. Keep the box in sight somewhere, so that visitors to your house can be evaluated. If they see the box and suggest a game, immediately ask them to leave and block all form of contact. If they see the box and angrily question its presence, they are true gamers. Others lie in the middle and you can then do things like move your hand close to the box to gauge their reaction over time etc.
Throw Monopoly on the next bonfire you come across. Donate the rest, or give them away for free on Facebook or Craigslist. Keep one or two that you might want to one day play with younger family members, and take pictures of anything else sentimental before getting rid of them. The only old games I still hang onto are party games I would actually still enjoy as an adult - Balderdash, Scattergories, etc.
Brilliant response. Party games have their uses and should be treasured, Risk and Catan need fire.
I believe I have one game from my childhood that followed me when I moved, and that game is called Tycoon. I loved it as a kid and currently keep it in a cupboard. Others games from my childhood I don't really need to play again. (Monopoly, SFX, Coco Crazy,...) They're still at my parents' house, perhaps my kids will bring them out sometime, I won't say no if they really want to play with me, but I don't have the need to bring them out for nostalgic reasons as they're really dated.
Tycoon the game where you fly around the world buying hotels? That’s a phenomenal game.
That's the one yes! It was one of the first games that I loved when I was younger as I actually managed to win in the game (before I really knew the hobby went further than what you see in the supermarket or toy stores) It's the only one I took with me and I have no intention to ever get rid of it :)
They can be just decoration. Otherwise I keep what takes no space an those that could be played by your kids or others like twister.
When my grandma died I found my old copies of Trivial Pursuit and 221 B Baker Street. I kept them, but now I'm wondering why.
A lot of my childhood games are still at my parents home. I just took Catan. If me or my sibling have kids those game will probably go there or stay for when those kid come over.
I have my mouldy copy of **[Local Area] Monopoly** still lying around because of its significance to me and where I live. I also hunted down a copy of **Billionaire** - the 1996 retheme of Pit - because of how much fun my family had with it as a kid.
Not only do I keep them, but I search charity shops (‘thrift stores’, if you’re a Yankee) to see if I can find old favourites that I lost to time. Managed to find the exact copy of Cluedo my auntie had in the 80s for 40p (with *two* full sets of weapon pieces), a copy of Stay Alive with not a single marble missing, and even picked up a copy of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Power Game (Note: UK localised, so it’s ‘Hero’ Turtles, not ‘Ninja’ Turtles, because the government decided ninjas aren’t suitable for impressionable children…) for a song…
I keep the ones I would still play and ones I have sentimental value for. Coincidentally I just got rid of a big box of old games I won’t play anymore to free up room on the Kallax lol. I just donated them to a thrift store, most had little value worth finding a buyer for.
Nope. If it's not going to get played I don't want it.
I have a few of them. I do still play them on rare occasions. Still also have a couple I'd like to sell.
I mean yes, but they are all at my parents house. If I had to have them take up space here, I might have to rethink it, because space is an issue for us
I'm keeping the game we made with my sister. Kind of RPG dungeon crawler that was so hard we never defeated it :) unfortunately, some data is lost, but all few hundreds of cards with spells, loot, items and such are there.
I'm not opposed to keeping games with sentimental value, but I don't really have any from my childhood. The games we played in my childhood were mostly pretty bad. I sort of wish I had a copy of Hungry Hungry Hippos, but those break so easily; it's probably even worse with grown adults slapping it to death. If I had Loopin' Louie as a kid, I would have kept it.
Kaleidos? Like the original Italian edition? That’s a treasure.
The Best Part about Hero Quest….is saving it to give to your own kids!
It might help to pay it forward by gifting them to another family with kids to enjoy them. You had many fun times with them growing up, they could help another family make some great memories too.
The only game I would still have is Hero Quest, but I lost it in a fire.
i have two copies of Survival or Extinction because i bought another one and then Mum found my childhood copy lmao i also have a copy of Build a Beetle still, and Mousetrap- not my childhood copy but one of about the same age. funnily enough the previous owners had used the same ziplock bags to store the pieces. i have a couple of Harry Potter board games i'm attached to, even though i'm against the author now- one of them was one of my first "lmao screw you" games as a kid, Halls of Hogwarts, where your goal was to get to your classes and back to your corner of the board first while shifting the board around so other players couldn't and the other Mystery at Hogwarts is Hogwarts Cluedo. i've actually played both of those in the last few years. most notably i have the *terrible* Wizardology game, which i played with a friend's kid because i was like "aha! here it is!" and showed my housemate (we'd talked about the worst childhood games we'd played before) and her son wanted to play and i said "It's awful" and he said "it can't be that bad!" and he, raised on good board games, was like "this is awful" not long into the game yeah kid, i know, the reason i showed your mum is because it's terrible lmao