Review: Casino Yahtzee Publisher: Milton Bradley Year: 1986 Tagline: The High-Rolling Dice Game how we met There are so many Yahtzee variants out there in this wide world. I like Yahtzee, but for some reason I don’t go in for the variants. The boxes are lovely and I do enjoy the game, so I’m not […]
Review: Dark Cults Publisher: Dark House Year: 1983 Tagline: The horror story game how we met This one might be my all-time best score in terms of unlikelihood because of the scene, the rarity of the game, me stumbling onto a special game I had never heard of (increasingly more rare) and the price I […]
Review: Gone Bananas Publisher: Lykeable Products Year: 1984 Tagline: Who made the play — her fun loving ID, her everyday EGO or her goal-oriented SUPEREGO? how we met I met Gone Bananas in an antique store in, I believe, Waukesha WI. At an antique store I certainly paid more than I usually do at thrift […]
Review: Input Publisher: Milton Bradley Year: 1984 Tagline: Each Piece Is Preprogrammed, Yet You Control Every Play how we met Well no surprises here. I found Input at a thrift shop somewhere near Milwaukee. I had never heard of the game before but was charmed by the throwback computer chip look. I also like to […]
Review: Quip Qubes Publisher: Selchow & Righter Year: 1981 Tagline: Cross Sentence Board Game how we met I found Quip Qubes at a particularly memorable thrift store visit. For one thing, our entire game group was on this trip, which is very unusual. Then there were two young boys at the store wearing matching gymnastics […]