What's your favorite classic video game or board game from your childhood, and do you still play it today?
What game should i bring for game night?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
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.
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.