Shortbeard Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 500 + 1200+ Games. Owned by an individual? I need to know what inductry you guys work in so I can afford that. My family already thinks I'm nuts and I have less then 50. Not for a lack of wanting more though. 3 High on my want list are Twilight Imperium, Aquire, And DUST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlady Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Pompeii Carcasonne Alhambra Hanging Garden Ticket to Ride Thurn & Taxis Frag Space Hulk (the new one) Settlers of Catan Pente Leverage Scrabble Chess Checkers etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Circus Imperium Lunch Money Dungeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Carcassonne and Tile Rummy.... which doesn't have a board but it's close enough. In the crossover category, with miniatures, relatively simple mechanics, and played on a board, "Legions of Steel". A classic, and worth picking up if you can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisler Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 500 + 1200+ Games. Owned by an individual? I need to know what inductry you guys work in so I can afford that. My family already thinks I'm nuts and I have less then 50. Not for a lack of wanting more though. 3 High on my want list are Twilight Imperium, Aquire, And DUST. Not 1200, 12,000 and she and her husband are both developers working for HP. My collection started with my first wargame; Gettysburg by Avalon Hill when I was 8. My dad has never forgiven himself for that. I have worked in a game store and with a game distributor. Not to mention a lot of friends in the industry, I rarely paid retail for a game even in my 20s and 30s when my collection was at its largest. The only collection that I'm aware of the probably rivals Sheila's is the Bromley collection and no one really knows how big that one is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Scrabble (multiple editions and variants of the game) Monopoly Chess Sorry! (Still have my complete game from when I was 7) Stratego (I hate the new editions with the 10 being the Marshall instead of a 1, it messes me up) Risk Axis and Allies Mousetrap Clue (several versions, Clue Jr. is actually a lot of fun and my daughter and I play a lot) Pictionary Cranium I guess I am a bit more of a traditionalist with my board games. Granted I don't play a ton, and when my wife and I usually find time to play, it's typically Scrabble, or we play Canasta or another card game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artists Wren Posted April 20, 2011 Artists Share Posted April 20, 2011 What is as impressive about Sheila's collection as the size is that it is all catalogued, so they actually do know what's in it. And it's catalogued in a fairly low-tech manner, so they don't have to redo the cataloguing system as computer/spreadsheed technology updates. And yeah, I know we're light-weights compared to a number of people (though in defense of our craziness that's a collection accumulated within the past 6-7 years, there are but a handful of old SPI, AH, Monopoly and so on in our numbers, no duplicates, and no thrifting type stuff.) Although it makes sense that other people would wonder how we got to 500+. No kids, for a starter, and pretty low priorities for fashion, home decor and other things that siphon disposable income away from games. ;-> Outside of the small selection of board games (RPG stuff is a different story) we both brought to the marriage, we had a local store with a vast selection that had to liquidate it pretty quickly and were able to beef up the collection at 40-80% off list price. I also worked there, and my regular staff discount was 30% off (also I was right there on restock days surrounded by boxes and blisters of temptation...). I'm pretty sure that if you total up all the stuff I bought while I worked at a game store and what I earned while working there that they came out ahead on the deal. ;-> There's a site tanga.com that is like woot.com but sells games each day on discount. We actually won a few, or got more than we brought on prize tables. (Private board game conventions do this prize table thing where each attendee brings a game for the table, then they draw names and you pick from whatever's on there when your name is drawn. People with excess collections will often bring more than the required one.) Hubby did reviews for a game magazine for a while, and they would send review copies. He was more open-minded than some of other reviewers, so let's just say most of those are not the gems of our collection. We had a local guy with a pretty huge but badly sorted collection (as in rules and pieces weren't always together in the box but spread out over 14 storage boxes that I sorted) who gave them away to the other members of our board gaming group, so we also got some there. I would guess that before the divorce it topped out somewhere over 2000 boardgames of various types. Did your ex get games in the divorce, or you had to sell a bunch as part of the process? When we sold our RPG duplicates, and as we've purchased certain of the games I've made it clear to Kevin that the ones I want are mine in the event of divorce. Hopefully this is extra motivation to keep our marriage a happy and healthy one. ;-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortbeard Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 12000..... I was hoping that was a typo. If I put that many games into my place I'd have to move out I think. Would be fun though. I've always had a rule about not buying something if someone else in the gaming group already has a copy of it. But I've missed out on a few games I'd of really liked to have as they hit OOP status. The being dinks(dual income no kids) I can see helping. As before my wife and I started with the kids we probably bought a new game every few months but since my son was born 3 years ago I've purchased one game. So how often do you guys get to pull a game of the shelf and play. I get to do so about 1-2 times a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artists Wren Posted April 20, 2011 Artists Share Posted April 20, 2011 Our game group meets every Thurs, and we're committed to hosting that twice a month. Depending on the length of the games, 2-4 games per session. Lately we've been doing 1-3 additional gaming sessions a month with a smaller group of friends. That's more of a hanging out vibe, so might only end up with 1-2 games played. Hubby and I go in cycles for how much gaming we do just the two of us. Right now he's got a lot of extra challenges at work and I'm ramping up the painting for ReaperCon, so not a lot of extra outside of that. We used to keep a bag of two player games in the car for when we ate out, but fell out of the habit of that for some reason. Probably should try to back into that. (Either games with washable pieces, like Blokus or travel Ingenious, card games we sleeved, or games that are relatively cheap and still in print that we could replace in the event of disaster.) One of the cool things about iPad/iPhone/Android is that more and more board games are being made for them. Cheaper, portable, take up less space and the multi-player ones let you play with distant opponents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisler Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 (edited) The games were split pretty evenly with only a couple that caused some friction. Cosmic Encounters because we both enjoyed it so much and several of the expansions are pretty rare even when it was in production, the others were 1st editions of 1829 (both the Northern and Southern boards) and a 1st edition Civilization with the trading card expansion (Quick trivia question who was the original publisher of civilization, the boardgame not the computer games). After the split is when the weeding out started. I play a boardgame at least once a week, gets me away from the painting table. Currently its been Ticket to Ride at least one playing every night this week. I have been Sheila's game supplier for years. A lot of her collection was purchased at my auctions. Edited April 20, 2011 by Heisler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Bedlam Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Jeez. And I thought I had problems with storage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chains Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 The oldest board game I still have, mostly for nostalgia reasons, is operation. It still works but a lot of the little bits are missing. Got it when I was 10 years old for Xmas one year. Favorites: - monopoly and ghettopoly - risk - pictionary - aggravation(Mom and I used to play it a lot when I was a kid) - chess(Grandfather and I played it, Still not very good at it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helltown Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Hrmm... the games that I cannot be without... Checkers Munchkin Killer Bunnies Munchkin Quest Settlers of Catan Blokus Tsuro Khet I certainly don't have that many board games, but I'm a sucker for expansions or new variants for the ones I do have. Being both a comic book geek (Wednesdays are the best day of the week) and a Magic player, my disposable income tends to vanish rather quickly before board games are brought up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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