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¿Question #425?
cktjharris: What was your favorite boardgame when you where a kid?

Hector Vortac: Monopoly, I admit
TARS9000: Monopoly Junior
oldhoss: First it was Dungeon! and Dark Tower, then it was Axis & Allies.
quietcorn: Win by a nose
Phelanpt: Risk
Immelmann: Atmosfear
marcbres: Memory
bcooperok: Cosmic Encounter, Eon (with the Filch flare card maybe in play).
Doc Robot: Monopoly
Spirit of 70: Dungeon!
Cringing Dragon: Cluedo
Felimid: A tie: "Emperor of China", "Life", "Aggravation", and "Monopoly".
Woelf: Thunder Road - and it's still a great game
daveroswell: Chutes and Ladders.
Tushratta: Parcheesi
mileser: Risk
cgund: Good one! Boy, so many. Leaping to mind are "Which Witch", "Electronic Detective (featuring Don Adams)", "Life", and "Sorry"
jeRm!: I can't remember the name but it had aircraft carriers and planes with torpedos and played on a very large board with water background and white outline hexagons
vandemonium: Hmm. Probably Pente. Great "go lite" game.
Phil Fleischmann: Chess
Chazar: Any game that helped me to convince someone to play with me.
muffins: othello
Inwardpanic: Clue
ZeroZilla: Sorry.
mintylish: Talisman
jannelle: Sorry and Clue
millsyboy: Cluedo (aka Clue)
enfanta: Didn't have one, really.
ZiggyZambo: life
jimu: Mousetrap
DHEK: Risk, I think.
WalkerRedEye: the one i wrote a geek list about that no-one ever managed to find a name or a picture for
elirlandes: Go Johnny Go-Go-Go-Go.
aleo09: didn't play that many. maybe crossbows & catapults
jruddy: Payday
cshelton: Clue
POvidiusNaso: Talisman.
Gamegrunt: Monopoly
Capitaine Grappin: Heroquest
waderam: Mousetrap. Which never seemed to actually catch a single damned mouse. It haunts my dreams, 30 years later.
diehard4life: This Game Is Bonkers!
mbrna: chess
Nils: Dinosaurs of the Lost World.
Sektor: HeroQuest
f_briere: Hum... excellent question! Chess I guess.
heavymetalhamster: Mousetrap
ilovekatusha: soccer manager
lokipm: Disney's Haunted Mansion Game
BrokenNails_NZ: Cluedo
Gibbo: Life
waddball: Stratego. I kept a log of different opening formations. I should've realized it could end nowhere good....
FrozenHoHos: Stratego because I didn't own it and I so wanted to get better at it.
Shotmagnet: Define "kid" I'm 46, but stick a game in front of me and I'm 12 all over again
SquirrelsUnite: Monopoly
TimAllen: Careers
haraggan: Probably Stratego, although it depends on what age "kid" is
WatchmanX2000: blitzkrieg
Chris Page: Depending on when: Peanut Butter & Jelly; some Peanuts boardgame; Pinnochle; Monopoly; Dungeons and Dragons; Naval War.
dwarf: Rummy.
HamsterOfFury: An Olympics Games one where athletes were moved similar to Really Nasty Horseracing Game
jasta6: game of life
starbug: Clue
rawdawg: original axis and allies
JonSykes: monopoly
hacksword: Axis & allies
Favre4MVP: Masterpiece
Famous Mortimer: Gammarauders.
fehrmeister: Axis and Allies
Fawkes: Trivial Pursuit.
Loquutus: Talisman
DaGen: ehrm.. Incognito
scriptorum: Stop Thief.
brainrob: Escape from Colditz
JamesT: Stratego
Dorque: Dragonmaster.
xlorp: Carrier Strike
Cerebus: Afrika Korps
Jeshko: Played a lot. Enjoyed a lot. Axis & Allies would have to be up there.
jglazier: Carrier Strike
tipigi: Dark Tower
ssmooth: Monopoly first
slapdash: payday
Admiral Fisher: Mediterranean
The Unbeliever: 42
bluebehir: I'm still a kid. But it was always the best game I had played at that time. before uni, maybe talisman. Before that, maybe Risk. before that, maybe "???" Before all of those it was monopoly. Hey, I didn't know any better I just liked playing games.
Musti: Escape from Colditz
Lord_Prussian: I'm sure I had several, but Brittania, Rise and Fall and Civilization were among them.
Belash: risk
skrutsch: Either Aggravation or Mastermind.
snoozefest: amoeba wars
otrex: Full House
gnomehome: Het verboden spel
erli: Mouse Trap
Bearcat89: Varied with age, but tops in my memory was Bonkers.
ikeafetishist: monopoly
fizzix: Dungeon!
Tim Synge: Coronation Scot.
kennyb: risk , careers
2amp: careers
heli: different ones at different times
Cavedog_pdx: Monopoly
Malacoda: Gammarauders
puffinge: Stratego
darthcliff: Parcheesi
Randy Cox: NBC/Hasbro Vegas or Sports Illustrated Baseball
AlorielLelyn: I don't remember
Salt-Man Z: Probably Isolation or Stratego.
wtrollkin2000: Maybe "Which Witch?"
Aelf: Cluedo, by quite a margin
rochs77: Hero Quest
Dave: Careers
sos1: Trade Winds
JoeCthulhu: 2 embarassing
onky: Geronimo (1976 version)
GuyHill: RISK
Blackwind: Risk
StormKnight: Dungeon.
Snooze_uk: Formula 1
Reloaded: Fireball Island
Ebon Wendigo: Lie Detector
sumo: Moviemaker
P.O.G.G.: Talisman
netfilterz: Tank Battle (I didn't have too many games actually)
geberus: stratego
tp_ryhansen: Axis and Allies
Silbach: The Awful Green Things from Outer Space...
louiseh: Risk
djlg: Escape from Colditz
BobDodgerBlue: Stratego
tardibean: I.Q. 2000 (not that it helped....)
dakarp: Stratego
chaddyboy_2000: Life
Gonzaga: Winnetou
djflippy: Titan
Shakar: Startego.
MisterCranky: Game of the States
jttm: Heroquest
tragicpoet: Clue Master Detective --- I was never beaten
Friendless: Can't remember having any I liked. Scrabble?
queequeg: Gambler
Mike A: Clue.
manowarplayer: Dogfight.
Jim_P: Clue
apecage: Careers
Draugnar: Feudal (Avalon Hill)
Con Man: electronic battleship
mrbeankc: Life
WonderCinz: Sorry.
pernishus: Monopoly, cuz I didn't know any better
CortexBomb: Heroquest
kimbo: Sigh. Another "favorite" question... I don't have a single favorite, but I liked Milton Bradley's Broadside a lot. I also like the game of Careers.
seppo21: Risk and King Oil
berserkley: Supercar
Flyspeck23: Mastermind.
WasQ: En busca del Imperio Cobra
Gelatinous Goo: Payday
melissa: Santa's Workshop. There were cards, and we moved around a board, and my brother and I always wanted to get the Rudolf card. That's all I remember, and the board has long since gone where boards go.
Magnus the Blue: Ugh...Stratego
ValJor: Chess
janiera: Life
dietevil: Dark Tower
Hallow: Didn't have one
ynnen: Talisman 2nd Edition and Mertwig's Maze
CDRodeffer: Othello
Drewcooter: Risk until 1984 then A&A
shumyum: Survive (but Risk also got a lot of play)
HBGlover: Fireball Island
skelebone: Sidewinder.
Ryno8: Dark Tower
EvilTimmy: Awful Green Things from Outer Space
cktjharris: Dang, that should say WERE