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Board Games and such

Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm
Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm

Does anybody play board games anymore? Well, they used to, that’s for sure. Here are some great ones I’ve collected.

Shindig “Teen Game” (Remco, 1965), based on the ABC TV show "tests your knowledge about the top teen entertainers,” Lie Detector (Mattel, 1960) “scientific crime game,” You Don't Say! “based on the NBC TV Game” (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game “Queen of the Prom” (Mattel, 1960) “a fun game with real life appeal for all girls,” TensegriToy “geodesic building puzzle” (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), and Pit “the world's livliest trading game” (Parker Brothers, 1959).

Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm

The remarkable Jump aka “Chicks and Checkers” (Cockamamie Enterprises, Inc. & Kanrom, Inc., 1965)—is a checker set with a difference—a board with cheesecake pix all over it(!).

Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm Vintage board games: Two more 'Pit' games. The edition at the top is from the 1940s, the one below from about 1958. I've played this game. It is loud and surprisingly fun, best with four or more players. Six is ideal. From 'Board Games and such' at the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm

Sorry “The Great Game” was also a quite frustrating game for those who attempted to bring skill to a game that was almost entirely chance (Parker Brothers, 1934, this edition 1950). Monopoly (Parker Brothers, 1936. Everybody knows Monopoly. This edition is from sometime in the 1950s before board and pieces all came in one large box. Here we see the smaller box which did not hold the board but only the player pieces, cards, houses, hotels, and of course money. Shake Bingo, “America’s fastest action game” (Schaper, c.1959).

Vintage board games: You Don't Say! (Milton Bradley, 1963), Ring Toss (Transogram, c.1940), Old Maid (Parker Brothers, c.1950s), The Barbie Game (Mattel, 1960), TensegriToy 'geodesic building puzzle' (Tensegrity Systems, 1985), Pit (Parker Brothers, 1959), and 'Jump' aka 'Chicks and Checkers' (Cockamamie Ent. & Kanrom, 1965)—a checker set cheesecake pix all over it(!). From the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm

Psyche-Paths is from Funtastic and this one is dated 1969. The action-packed Ker Plunk (Ideal, 1967), looks like fun and bills itself as “a tantalizing game of nerve and skill.” And Konane is “the ancient Hawaiian checker game” (Anekona Hawaii, c.1967).

Game makers were notorious box-changers. Many would change the design of the box annually, sometimes with even greater frequency. These changes were made to make the game seem new or somehow different so the enthusiast would buy it again. Now, of course, they do this even more brazenly, issuing different “editions” to the gullible with tie-ins to movies and such. Quaint by comparison, we see here another couple of versions of Pit, the one on top being from the 1940s and below it still another Pit from about 1958.

Astro Launch 'new exciting space game' appealed to our '50s-'60s fascination with space travel. From Ohio Art, c.1959. These were the same people who gave us the 'Etch A Sketch.' From 'Board Games and Such' at the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm Vintage board game 'Pin the Tail' (Adultoys, c.1970). I am not making this up. It consists of several sets of breasts which blindfolded (and presumably drunk) partygoers attempt to pin into position on a life size 'paper doll!' From 'Board Games and such' at the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm
Astro Launch 'new exciting space game' appealed to our '50s-'60s fascination with space travel. From Ohio Art, c.1959. These were the same people who gave us the 'Etch A Sketch.' From 'Board Games and Such' at the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm Vintage board game 'Pin the Tail' (Adultoys, c.1970). I am not making this up. It consists of several sets of breasts which blindfolded (and presumably drunk) partygoers attempt to pin into position on a life size 'paper doll!' From 'Board Games and such' at the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm

And now, Astro Launch, the “new exciting space game” (Ohio Art, c.1959). Ohio Art were the people who, in 1960, brought us the Etch A Sketch, a toy I snarkily disparage on my page about video games. The actual importance of Etch A Sketch in our modern world should not be overlooked and I invite you to go to that page and see why I think that.

Along the same remarkable lines as Chicks and Checkers there’s Pin the Tail (Adultoys, c.1970) which consists of several sets of breasts (yes, really, breasts) which blindfolded—and presumably drunk—partygoers attempt to pin into position on a life size ‘paper doll.’

I won’t show you what Pin the Tail looks like out of the box, but here’s Astro Launch... Astro Launch 'new exciting space game' appealed to our '50s-'60s fascination with space travel. From Ohio Art, c.1959. These were the same people who gave us the 'Etch A Sketch.' From 'Board Games and Such' at the web's largest private collection of antiques & collectibles: https://www.ericwrobbel.com/collections/games.htm




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