God, I hadn’t owned a board game – a real, honest-to-God board game – pretty much since I’d moved out on my own. Video games? Sure. Plenty of them. But an old fashioned, sit around the table, sneak-a-bill-from-the-bank board game? Not in many, many, many years. And lately I’ve been wanting to own a few.
And not the ultramodern battery-operated quadruple-licensed Christmas toy, but classic games. The classic games Kristi and I and my brother and a whole bunch of us all grew up with. Hanging out playing games at Thanksgiving just brought it back to mind again.
So anyway, last night the holiday block fair wrapped up and we got our street back again, and we had a nice fire going and Sam started looking at us with that “Didn’t you forget something tonight, people?” look that typically means he’s hungry. Oops: I went to go fill his bowl only to discover that we were completely out of dog food. We needed to make a late evening Target run.
We can never just go into Target, buy one thing and leave. It’s not possible.
And so.. we came home with board games! A deluxe Scrabble set, a dominos kit (the same that we were playing on Thursday) and this way-cool Risk set. Check that out. Attractive wooden case. Compact set. Best of all, it’s a replica of the original 1959 set, with the same rulebook and board and wooden block army markers and everything. Now I just have to remember how the hell to play it.
Seems that Target has an exclusive deal with Hasbro to retail a whole series of these classic games. Risk. Monopoly. Clue. Stratego. Yahtzee. I could even have sworn I saw a Sorry game on the shelf. And all of them the original vintage editions of the games.
I so want this whole series.