Review: Pick-Up Lines Publisher: Pressman Year: 2005 Tagline: The game that brings out the daring in everyone! how we met Buying this game for a couple of dollars was a no brainer for me. I love party games, I love pick-up lines and I love cocktails. Bonus: it was unpunched, perhaps unplayed. how it plays […]
Review: The Miss America Pageant Game Publisher: Parker Brothers Year: 1974 Tagline: (none) how we met I met The Miss America Pageant Game at an estate sale on Day 2 (50% off day). I found the game in the basement amongst all of the Christmas decorations that also had not sold. I had never heard […]
Review: The Family Ties Game Publisher: AppleStreet Year: 1986 Tagline: Play along with the Keatons for family fun. how we met The Family Ties Game is one of the many board games dug out of the basement of a shop near me (see Barnabas Collins game review). The box is in really rough shape and […]
Review: Mr. Bacon’s Big Adventure Publisher: Archie McPhee Year: 2009 Tagline: It’s a Mad Dash Through Meatland on Your Way to the Frying Pan! how we met The closest town to me has a thrift shop that I visit on a fairly regular basis. This small-town shop gets its fair amount of valuable, obscure, vintage […]
Review: Compatibility Publisher: Mattel (under license from Crown & Andrews) Year: 1996 Tagline: Do Great Minds Really Think Alike? how we met In my opinion, the cover of Compatibility is pretty terrible. It looks like one of the many dime-a-dozen party games that my eyes fly by at thrift shops. But if I haven’t seen […]