For Christmas, I got my love a Lite Brite, an Uno card game, and a Skip Bo card game. She loved them!! I'm happy that in this day and age of computer and console games that we can still enjoy the simple games. Granted, she beat me like an ugly stepchild in the card games.

Tell me, how many of you played "Connect the dots" or Battleship or Risk/Stratego as a child and kind of miss them?

I agree, Hiram. Growing up, we had all kinds of board games like Monopoly and Life and Clue. Some of my most vivid memories are of the *rare* Sundays my dad would join us in Monopoly, start out practically losing his shirt and then ending up richer than Midas! We always tease him that it's too bad he still hasn't gotten that Midas finish down pat in real life! ;)

My sibs still play Uno but I never enjoyed it. I think one of my favorites is still homely old Checkers--used to sit and plan strategy for hours with my great grandma as a little girl--can still beat the pants off my kids even with all their 'advanced' computer training/strategies! [img]smile.gif[/img] Luckily, even with all our pc and play station games, we all still play low-tech games like Scrabble, Yahtzee and Monopoly. (You should hear the cheering when Mama and Papa square off for a heated round or two of Scrabble!!!)

<font color="cyan">I used to love board games, and still enjoy Monopoly, but I have to say, I think I prefer playing computer games over them.</font>

I think it may have to do with upbringing and when we were all small.....I grew up pre-computer with my nose firmly in books most of the time which enabled me to develop a highly refined imagination (I 'see' and 'hear' the story rather than simply read dry words) and so board games were more of a learning of strategy than imaginative sortees. Computer games are immediate visual gratification. You can immerse yourself into the graphcs, become one with the engine and not be required to manually construct the worlds. It's a shame, really.

I'm by no means saying pc-gamers are imagination-deficient!!! (they are some of the most imaginative I've ever seen) I just think it's a different mindset altogether these days. I know I immensely enjoy the fantasy AD&D type pc games but still can be found with my nose in a book more often than not ;) .

When I saw the "basic games are the best" title of this thread, I thought "basic" was Warcraft II or something. How sad is that. Seriously though, I love board and card games. I used to love battleship. My all time favorites though are Axis and Allies and Shogun.

Computer games makes your brain "lazy" in my opinion..
That's why everybody should do like Hiram, and play more "good old games" for example monopoly, thief and police (maybe we just have that in sweden, I don't know) and stratego..
It's the same with TV and reading..

I agree wholeheartedly with the tv vs. reading point!!!

Did anyone see (over the holidays) the new version of the game Clue? It was a Forgotten Realms version!!! I saw it at a local bookstore--and too bad I'd just spent the last of my money Xmas shopping or I'd be playing it now! It looked soooooo good....

Heh, well, some of us "youngsters" from the computer age still like board games [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Robo Rally for example, Chess, Stratego, Monopoly, I love those games [img]smile.gif[/img]

I remember those games Hiram! Well, I never had the ol' Lightbright (does an Etch-A-Sketch count LOL?). I loved Uno too, hey, isn't Skip Bo just another (actually more fun) version of Uno? I also loved to play Battleship (you sunk my battleship!) [img]tongue.gif[/img] I also used to love to play Chinese Checkers and Monopoly too.

Well I love to play computer games, but one thing, I think that card games are best played with actual cards, the computer versions just don't do it for me. There is just something like the smell of the cards, the shuffle, the snap of picking up and laying down the cards, etc. [img]smile.gif[/img]