I have the worlds largest collection of games. I'm confident I can back that claim up with witnesses, photographic evidence, etc. all of which should come out over time in a horrifying mea culpatic uberhootian horror posting that will crash the web. In fact I intend just such postings.. soon enough. Stay tuned. By the way board games still rule over videogames.. this is a debate not worth having. I know because I have every videogame ever made. Yes I even have the original floppy disks for Below the Root which is the greatest videogame of all time hands down yet pales in comparison to board games. More about the root some other day friends.

This posting is instead intended to ask you all to name a board game from your youth that you recall fondly.. a game that does not likely hold up to the glory that you remember it to be. This would be the first game pulled out of your friends closet when you went over to play.. or your own when friends arrived. A game you nagged your older or younger sibling(s) to play which, they played reluctantly, perhaps altering the rules to radicaly reduce the amount of time it took for them to, incredibly, woop your arse and leave the room, paper money flittering in the wind of their cackling departure. A game played on christmas eve to kill the agonizing wait for santa parents to deliver their very replacements, hopefully the very next morning.

My choice is "Bonkers!". Or more accurately titled "This game is Bonkers!" This was played with mildly uninteresting "convenience" friends (because they lived across the street) so many times the pieces were frayed, the box was collapsed. The game involved drawing little cards that changed the rules of the game in real time. One card would say go backwards 13 places. Another would say take another players card and do what it says. The result was a pathetic brownian motion simulation that resulted in random twitchy movement around an awwkard "mad magazine" style maze. Random luck would ultimately result in someone hitting the finish line much to the relief of all players who had already lost interest and were busy rewinding their "Grease" soundtrack cassette tapes or reconfiguring their Micronauts.

People I could go on for so long they would find my 200 year old corpse hunched over the keyboard still typing.

Enough! Respond with your board game of choice. GO-------->