Board games, with their colorful packaging, enticing game boards and iconic playing pieces, are popular with just about everyone. No matter what your taste, there’s a game out there for you. Besides testing your knowledge (Go To The Head Of The Class), or skill (Operation), or luck (Trouble), they are fun to play and a great way to interact socially with others. Milton Bradley has been by far the leading producer of board games, followed by Parker Brothers. Ideal Toys was the main producer of action games during the 1960s and 1970s.

The following is a list of  70+ classic board and action games that have been favorites of ours from early childhood (Candyland) to adult years (Trivial Pursuit). Some are associated strictly with the baby boom generation (Rock’ Em Sock ‘Em Robots), while others are playtime mainstays that have been around for decades (Monopoly).

Hopefully this will bring back happy memories of the games you played, in which you chanced it all at the spin of a wheel or a toss of the dice. After each game’s listing are the manufacturer and the year it debuted.  These are basically the classics from Milton Bradley’s Uncle Wiggly of 1916 all the way  through Cranium in 1992. See how many of these you remember

• Aggravation (CO-5 Company) – 1962
• Ants In The Pants (Schaper) – 1968
• Axis & Allies (Milton Bradley) – 1984
• Barrel of Monkees (Lakeside) – 1969
• Balderdash (Robinson & Toyne)
• Battleship (Milton Bradley) – 1967
• Battling Tops (Ideal) – 1968
• Bonkers! (Parker Brothers)
• Booby Trap (Parker Brothers) – 1965
• Candy Land (Milton Bradley) – 1955
• Careers (Parker Brothers) – 1955
• Chutes & Ladders (Milton Bradley) – 1943
• Clue (Parker Brothers) – 1949
• Connect Four (Milton Bradley) – 1979
• Cootie (Schaper) – 1948
• Cranium (Alexander & Tait) – 1992
• Don’t Break The Ice (Schaper) – 1967
• Don’t Spill The Beans (Schaper) – 1967
• Easy Money (Milton Bradley) – 1936
• Finance (Parker Brothers) – 1932
• Game Of Life (Milton Bradley) – 1960
• Game Of The States (Milton Bradley)
• Gnip Gnop (Parker Brothers) – 1971
• Go To The Head Of The Class (Milton Bradley) – 1938
• Green Ghost (Transogram) – 1965
• Hands Down (Ideal) – 1964
• Headache (Kohner) – 1968
• HeroQuest (Milton Bradley) – 1989
• Hi-Ho Cherry-O (Whitman) – 1960
• Hungry Hungry Hippos (Milton Bradley) – 1980
• Jenga (Milton Bradley)
• Kaboom! (Ideal) – 1966
• KerPlunk (Ideal) – 1967
• The Last Straw (Schaper) – 1966
• Lie Detector (Mattel) – 1960
• Mad Magazine Game (Parker Brothers) – 1979
• Mall Madness (Milton Bradley) – 1988
• Mastermind (Invicta) – 1972
• Miss Popularity (Transogram) – 1961
• Monopoly (Parker Brothers) – 1935
• Mouse Trap (Ideal) – 1963
• Mystery Date (Milton Bradley) – 1965
• Operation (Milton Bradley) – 1965
• Outburst (Hersch & Company) – 1986
• Park & Shop (Milton Bradley)
• Password (Milton Bradley) – 1962
• Pay Day (Parker Brothers) – 1975
• Perfection (Lakeside) – 1973
• Pictionary (Western Publishing) – 1985
• Probe (Parker Brothers) – 1960s
• Qubic (Parker Brothers) – 1968
• Rebound (Ideal) – 1971
• Risk (Parker Brothers) – 1959
• Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots (Marx) – 1966
• Scattergories (Hasbro) – 1988
• Scrabble (Selchow & Righter) – 1953
• Skittle-Bowl (Aurora) – 1969
• Sorry (Parker Brothers) – 1950
• Stay Alive (Milton Bradley) – 1971
• Stratego (Milton Bradley) – 1961
• Taboo (Hasbro)
• Time Bomb (Milton Bradley) – 1964
• Tip-It (Ideal) – 1965
• Toss Across (Ideal) – 1969
• Trivial Pursuit (Selchow & Righter) – 1981
• Trouble (Kohner) – 1965
• Twister (Milton Bradley) – 1966
• Uncle Wiggly (Milton Bradley) – 1916
• Which Witch (Milton Bradley) – 1970
• Yahtzee (E. S. Lowe) – 1956

Uncle Wiggley - circa 1916

A nod has to be given to the ancient games of backgammon, chess and checkers which have stood the test of time (as well as passed down from generation to generation) and are still very much considered to be mainstream to this day.

Games involving strictly playing cards  or specialty cards were left off this particular list.

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Here’s another post from this blog of similar interest to check out:

• Famous Toys Immortalized at the National Toy Hall of Fame

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Original "Candy Land" Game - circa 1949

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Dennis Lewis in 2005 in his San Francisco garden

To understand the beginning of this poem, it may be helpful to know that my father, Cappy Lewis, was a solo trumpet player with Woody Herman and many other bands, and that my mother and I sometimes traveled with him for his gigs until I was about five years old.

These Passing Years

Delicious impressions of
a four-year old boy waking up alone
to the mysterious smells
of the warm, perfumed wind
blowing gently through the shadows
of dancing flowers just outside
the partially open window and to
the comforting beats of big-band jazz–
and waiting in anticipation
for his mother and father
to return to the motel room
from the jazz club just across
this mysterious garden of flowers.
I knew the very next day
that it was a small garden,
and yet, somehow,
it seemed infinite that evening,
impossible to traverse with feet or senses.
Perhaps my sense of these passing years began here,
but I do not really know.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
the many books I’ve held in my hands
through these passing years,
beginning perhaps with Uncle Wiggly,
who wiggled himself into and out of
frightening situations
with ingenious regularity,
and ending perhaps
with the last revealing page
of the as yet unfinished
manuscript of my life.
Each book, more often than not,
throwing light on the shadow play
of my hopes and fears,
helping my thoughts break their bonds,
and opening me
to new perceptions
of myself and the world.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
my relentless urge to merge with
the unfathomable smiles, bodies, and souls
Of the wondrous women I’ve held in my arms
through these passing years,
a special few, not taken
by their own beauty and power,
helping me to understand
that the heart of the matter
is only revealed
in the silent depths
of an awakened heart.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
unconditional love while looking
into the loving eyes of my son
through these passing years,
and gradually learning
how to look at myself afresh
through the versicolored lens
of his own expansive heart.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
exploring who I am
and why I am here
through these passing years–
Gurdjieff, Advaita, The Tao, Headlessness–
all the wonderful teachers and teachings
compassionately guiding me toward
what they had discovered to be “the light,”
and sometimes, due to its sheer brilliance,
blinding me from the inevitability
of my own real path–
the path actually taken.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
turning pages, smiling faces,
sexual passions and diversions,
observations and remembering,
working, playing, and enduring,
thinking, feeling, loving, fearing,
touching, tasting, and regaling,
searching, writing, teaching, learning,
smelling, singing, always exploring
the ever-expanding edges of my own desires,
creating new territories and new maps
for inner and outer travel and discovery,
and quietly, oh so quietly,
being called from some unknown place,
to simple appreciation for the great gifts
I have received through these passing years.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
The law of attraction at work,
Of how my being has attracted my life
through these passing years.
My many so-called problems,
whether of body, mind or spirit,
often glimpsed now for what they are—
low-frequency, fragmentary energies
called into my life and
given too much attention
through a basic misunderstanding of
who I really am and what I really want.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Delicious impressions of
the underlying oneness of the
magical dualities of time and space.
No matter what my thoughts tell me
about my experiences of this life
through these passing years,
about how beautiful or ugly,
how pleasurable or painful,
or how real or illusory
they were or are
I have faith now,
a deep, steady feeling,
that it is all good; it is all God;
it is all part of the lawful
unfolding and embrace of Great Being,
the agony and ecstasy of communion,
of learning how to be here consciously
at both the center and the periphery
of the infinitely creative
spaciousness and silence of what
is sometimes called The Source,
and which now I am sometimes blessed
to recognize as who we really are.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

And now, tonight, delicious impressions of
this spaciousness, this silence,
resonating with the uplifting vibrations
of you my friends (and of you my Love),
breathing, laughing, listening, walking,
sitting, feeling, questioning, talking,
all of us celebrating together
the greatest miracle of all:
the mysterious Nowness of these passing years,
the miraculous Loving Presence that
calls us home again and again and again.

There’s much more to say, of course,
but does anyone really know the whole story?

Copyright 2005-2009 by Dennis Lewis

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Dear God. Know why I don’t do Neko? (Besides the tails creep me out and make me think of THIS) It’s the accessories! I just can’t buy super cute ears PLUS rockin Hair or a tail AND shoes. WOW. Nekos spend a lot of money on stuff. YOWZAH.

At least – to look cute they do.

Maybe if a Neko and a spoiled fashionista had a baby – THIS is what she would look like!

I opted for the Uncle Wiggly necklace which was “collarish” vs. a real collar. And bushier eyebrows than I normally wear.

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posted by Gidge Uriza

Dear God. Know why I don’t do Neko? (Besides the tails creep me out and make me think of THIS) It’s the accessories! I just can’t buy super cute ears PLUS rockin Hair or a tail AND shoes. WOW. Nekos  spend a lot of money on stuff. YOWZAH.

At least – to look cute they do.

Maybe if a Neko and a spoiled fashionista had a baby – THIS is what she would look like!

I opted for the Uncle Wiggly necklace which was “collarish” vs. a real collar. And bushier eyebrows than I normally wear.

AH not my best effort, but clearly, I’m not a member of the Paws Clan.

I feel certain that Clara Bow will be more within my range!

Fashion Details

• Shape _ Gidge custom Shape by Hatchy Mills
• Skin – MVS Xtreme Reality SKin – Heidi – Active Red
• HAir Diversity hair – Freshia – Sunshine Blonde
• Dress – Frangipanni Designs – Floral Print – Freebie
• Necklace – Uncle Wiggly – Triple Marge in red & black
• Ears – Neko Style EArs Black (that I won on a hunt!)
• SHoes – Juicy Slingback pumps in Peppercorn

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So Cajsa introduced me to Uncle Wiggly, and you’ve seen the rockin’ triple Marge necklace that she offers for a mere One Linden, you might not have seen some of the system-tastic dresses she has!

The selection is wide there. I love all the various textures and styles but this patchwork dress had stuck out in my mind and when I went BACK to pick it up I got mucho lucky cuz it’s her FREEBIE right now. If you can believe such a pretty little sundress is free…..

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posted by Gidge Uriza

So Cajsa introduced me to Uncle Wiggly, and you’ve seen the rockin’ triple Marge necklace that she offers for a mere One Linden, you might not have seen some of the system-tastic dresses she has!

The selection is wide there. I love all the various textures and styles but this patchwork dress had stuck out in my mind and when I went BACK to pick it up I got mucho lucky cuz it’s her FREEBIE right now. If you can believe such a pretty little sundress is free…..

But I do not lie, ’tis FREE! At least it was. If you didn’t run and pick it up yet you should before it’s gone!  I’m going back to get some more dresses, that’s for sure.

Skin by Chic Boutique - Diva - Stella - Berrylicious

You can tell I’m in love with the pink and purple make up combinations all of a sudden lately, aren’t I? What can I say….I miss the 80s.

Click Here to see all the photos

Fashion Details

Review Items Noted with an R

• Shape – Gidge Custom Shape by Hatchy Mills
• Skin – Chic Boutique – Diva – Stella- Berrylicious R
• Hair – ETD Camille – Sunny
• Eyes – FNKY – Purple Rain
• Dress – Uncle Wiggly – Patchwork Dress – FREEBIE
• Shoes – Juicy Slingback Pumps – Bubblegum
• Nails – Love Soul- Purple
• Necklace – Frangipanni Designs – ICE ROCKS

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I didn’t have any plans for New Years Eve, but when QXI Gears invited me over for an informal get together with friends, I wanted to wear something festive even if it wasn’t a “formal” event. Digit Darkes Nicole dress with it’s bright splashes of color was exactly what I wanted.

She's a Brick, House

Posted by Gidge Uriza

I didn’t have any plans for New Years Eve, but when QXI Gears invited me over for an informal get together with friends, I wanted to wear something festive even if it wasn’t a “formal” event. Digit Darkes Nicole dress with it’s bright splashes of color was exactly what I wanted.

She's a Brick, House

Beautiful PXL Crys - Raspberry Lips, Cat Eyes with freckles

This was the perfect New Year’s Eve outfit for a casual night of dancing………until Harper Gainesvoort called and invited us to Frank’s Elite VIP room………..but you have to wait for that outfit!

More Pics here

All Photography by Cajsa Lilliehook of MDR Photo Studio

Fashion Details

• Shape – Collette’s Femme Fatale 2
• Skin – PXL CRYS – Raspberry Lips, Cat Eyes with Freckles
• Dress and Shoes – Digit Darkes – NICOLE with Shoes
• Necklace – Uncle Wiggly’s MARGE necklace
• Hair – Laqroki – PRISS – Sunkissed

Up here waiting for Xmas, looking out….

BP*: Dolly red dress……. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Croquis/204/88/25

Uncle Wiggly: Patchwork Antlers (free!)……. http://slurl.com/secondlife/tin%20lizzie/197/227/97/

Coif hair: Marcelle…………. http://slurl.com/secondlife/dreamworld%20east/127/222/22/