I play regularily board games with friends.

What we play most these days (we play others too of course) are these:

Dominant Species

Pandemic

Robo Rally

OMG so much nostalgia it's pouring out of my eyes!

Props to the poster who posted warhammer online, spent many years in my youth with that tabletop roleplay.. ahh the memories of my Norse beserker driving a gnome steam engine right through the doors of dracenfels and going up against Tzeentch avatar in Terror in Talabheim.

I am abashed to say I have only played D&D from that list. Good to see where it all started. :)

I have played stuff like Dune, Car Wars and Magic Realm. Great picks guys.

nobody brought up lunch money!

does lunch money count as old school?  it was/is a great card game...

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was probably the greatest "gateway" drug into gaming of any game ever conceived.  You can't have a true "Geek" credential until you've played this game.  I'm sure if I fish through some of those boxes way in the back of the attic I can come up with a few twenty sided dice.  What got me into it?  The same as everyone else.  One of the local clergy at a church in my small home town said that AD&D was demonic and we kids shouldn't play it.  I heard that and my first thought was, "I got to try that."  Probably the best advertising AD&D ever got.

From there I went to Starfleet Battles (Hello, GEEK!) and it was Starfleet Battles that was eventully my entre into online gaming.  Starfleet Battles became Starfleet Command, Startleet Command II : Empires at War and Starfleet Command II : Orion Pirates.  It was there in the Dynaverse that I met my Klingon Brothers!

From there it was game on.  A decade of online gaming later, I still owe it all to AD&D.

Axis and Allies is a great board game, the problem I had with it was that after you played it the first few times... every game would end up with the same 2 or 3 strategies to win and it all came down to the luck of the dice.

I really enjoyed some of the Avalon Hill games like Squad Leader and one of my favorates "Flat Top" it's down side was that you couldnt dream of playing a full game in a session it could last easily for a week. When we were teenager's we had no place to keep a board up and running for an extended amount of time. Heck you could spend 2 to 3 hours just setting the game up. The best strategic military campaign board game I ever had the pleasure of playing.

Originally posted by shava

Then, there are the revivals!  Remember Titan?

 

 

Here's the sourceforge online adaptation:

http://colossus.sourceforge.net/

My first game of Titan was at E.G.G's house playing with Tom Wham. :D

Not too much to add here other than what has already been said- Really cool to see traveler mentioned.

This was a really cool article and a fun thread to read. I used to love the Boardgame section of my Hobby Shop (although I was mopre of a Pen amnd Paer RPGer) for cool strategy titles. I personally feel this is one area which Computer games have made BETTER. Strategy titles are far quicker and more complex with computers, sadly there isnt much Turn based being made these days- But games like Civ have taken the boardgame strategy element and expanded upon it and not regressed it as CRPGs have done.

Unfortunatly it seems even games like Civ are faltering to the :casual" cry of late =(

Anyhow MOAR ARTICLES LIKE THIS =D

Oh Man. You didnt even remember Cyber Punk or TMNT and what about hero quest lol.

Oh the memories of getting the dice chuckers together on saturday nights and stuffing our faces with mac n cheese and pizza, guzzling mountain dew and looking over the character sheet with wondering eyes awaiting what came next from the mouth of our DM/GM.    Hehe the memories. Thanks for the trip down memory lane .

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Originally posted by VirusDancer
It's kind of funny thinking back to the preinternet time period as well - the various magazines that many of the games had.  Not talking about things just like Dungeon or Dragon, but ADQ - BattleTechnology...etc.  It really added to the games.

I think the major depressing part, in having thought about - was losing it all about 4 years ago after a motorcycle accident.  With all the work stuff, medical stuff, post office deciding I didn't live where I did I apparently missed two payments on my storage - I couldn't blame them if they had sent a letter (post office screwed that up) but they never left a voicemail.  I found out when I went in to pay the bill... over 30 years of stuff that I had spent way too much money on, heh/meh - was all gone.  Tabletop games, RPGs, wargaming, miniatures...all gone.

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/cast thread-rez.

How dreadful :( So sorry this happened to you. It is like they stole some of your history and youth. Very dissapointing. You should try to go to a game con or two during the year; those are fun and you'd get some real empathy from them about this story. Best wishes.

Originally posted by Kiljaedenas
My personal favorite for the old pencil-and-paper games were the Fighting Fantasy gamebook seriers from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone; basically Choose Your Own Adventure books on steroids. They came out with well over 50 of those things and I ended up getting most of them. They were bloody cool, and had quite varied storylines and environments.

I loved them as well. Don't know if you have heard but Mr Ian "legend" Livingstone has written a new one, sending you the Amazon link here. There is a little video from him on the page also. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848314051/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d39_i2?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=08CVXKANWWT21TYMK4VB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=317820867&pf_rd_i=468294