What's your favorite classic video game or board game from your childhood, and do you still play it today?

Favourite board games in our family were Ludo and Scrabble but we did have others. My Grandad liked to play draughts.

I tried to play chess, usually with a friend. Our Deputy Headmaster taught it extra-curriculum at school, but I was never any good at it! I can't think far enough ahead, or see all the possible moves and traps at each turn. So might take my opponent's knight, say, but lose a bishop and a rook over the next three or four moves.

Hardest I have ever tried was Mah-jong, a traditional Chinese board game, and very complicated.

Video games: hardly ever but I was in right at the start though in adulthood not childhood, when a girlfriend owned one of those "bat and ball" games using a unit plugged into the TV ariel socket. They had no sounds beyond a "Beep" at each contact. Then along came the "Pac-Man" machines in places like fish-and-chip shops, with their incessant four-note jingles.

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One aspect not foreseeable in those late-1970s days has been the development of high-quality, even fully orchestral, symphonic music for video games; and although I do not play any of the games I enjoy hearing the music. BBC Radio Three plays a monthly Saturday-afternoon programme of it, between three weekly episodes of cinema-film music. I think last year's "Prom" season even included one concert of a selection of video orchestral themes.

Games I still play:

Videogame: Tetris, and Crash Bandicoot.

Board game: Chess, monopoly, Yahtzee. Connect four. Chinese Checkers

There's a app for it now. Back in my day it was called fourscore. Then they changed it and made it far too easy, calling it four connect.

A number of years ago though they brought back the original version and are calling it fourscore once again.

Think of it like a three dimensional version of tic-tac-toe, accept instead of three by three, it's 4 by 4 by 4!

You really got to think about it to win.

I remember a board game called Atmosfear. Its a horror board game with a time limit and a scary guy on vhs throws in curve balls. Its lots of fun.

PC games: Prehistorik, Tarzan, The Neverhood

Board games: snakes and ladders and this one:



I don't play anything anymore

I don't play video games, video games are for children

Scrabble, yahtzee, trivial pursuit.

Red alert and stronghold

Final fantasy. Boggle

Clue
Sorry
Monopoly

Double Dragon

I loved playing this game, and I wish I still could have a round at it, but I guess it's pure nostalgia now
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but if you bring any 999 game I dont know yet, I'm sure we will have a great game night exploring it :)

Pop taught me how to play chess. But it’s been a long time since we’ve played. When I lived at home, the chess board would sit until we went back to it, in his office, and nobody dared touch it. The only other person interested in learning has been my niece.