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Post by Dreamcastie on Aug 31, 2015 16:00:59 GMT
Did you ever create your own board games as a kid? If so what were they liked and what were the rules?
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Post by FistoftheWind on Sept 2, 2015 5:52:24 GMT
As a kid I used to make mazes a lot. Well, they were more like paper dungeons you could play through by yourself. If you followed the rules I laid out then they could be pretty fun. I basically created mazes but had keys and switches and stuff that would open up different areas, so it was up to you to be honest and flip the appropriate switches or obtain the keys to get through blocked areas. One I did had actual battles but it was extremely simple. A monster was listed in an area and it was worth a certain number and all you had to do was take a die and roll higher than that number to defeat them.
More recently I've been taking cardboard scraps from packaging and such and drawing simple board games on them for my kids to play. One of them is "the big race" and it's straight up basically who can roll the best and get to the end the fastest. I made it as more of a counting exercise for them.
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Post by Brandon on Sept 2, 2015 6:02:46 GMT
My Mom used to buy me board games from yard sales and most of the time the instructions were missing so my brother and I would just have to make up our own rules for an established board game. Most of the time it was really fun. She bought this giant G.I. Joe board game w/ missing instructions but it had all the pieces. It had like 50 or so little cardboard cutouts of characters from the cartoon and various buildings you set up across the board. To this day I have no idea how the actual rules to that game go but we played it for hours upon hours, ha ha!
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Post by Brandon on Sept 6, 2015 5:08:31 GMT
Not 100% sure this qualifies for this thread but didn't know where else to put it.
Did anyone else ever play strange board games at school during free time? For example games that you could never find in stores. A couple of my teachers would make educational games but I also remember playing this game where you had to climb a castle? The pieces you used were strange too, like Igor and I also remember one named Zelda but she didn't look anything like the princess, ha ha
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Post by FistoftheWind on Sept 7, 2015 9:06:25 GMT
Not 100% sure this qualifies for this thread but didn't know where else to put it. Did anyone else ever play strange board games at school during free time? For example games that you could never find in stores. A couple of my teachers would make educational games but I also remember playing this game where you had to climb a castle? The pieces you used were strange too, like Igor and I also remember one named Zelda but she didn't look anything like the princess, ha ha I learned how to multiply thanks to a rip off Super Mario bros game a teacher made out of frustration that my class wasn't understanding (or putting in the effort rather) the multiplication table. So she painted a back drop from Mario 1 and had cut out pipes and enemies and of course Mario and had them laminated and glued magnets to them. It's really dumb, but to clear pipes you had to recite the multiples of a certain line of the table. When you came across an enemy you had to do a completely random math problem from her head. It was overly simple, but in the Nintendo age it worked like a charm to get us interested, especially since the fortress at the end always had a piece of candy for you.
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