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Year after year: The Best Games (From 1934 to 2010!)
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Ever wondered which was the best game released the year you were born?
Well stop wondering! Here is the list of the best games released each year, year after year!

This list is based on the BGG ranking.

For each year I have gotten the best ranked game released and some of the other notable ones!

Note: I've been using the advanced search tool to determine the list and used minor ratings for each year so there might be some games that sould (maybe) be here and aren't.

The list goes back to 1959, the year of Diplomacy, Risk and Memory!
edit: It goes back to 1934 now!

I might go back further later on but for the moment, I hope you enjoy!

edit 2: I've updated year 2008 anf started year 2009 but note that before Essen, year 2009 hasn't got a lot of chances of being very accurate as most games will go out in November with the Essen fair.

I'm not editing every year so there should be some inconsistencies in rankings for older years, I'll change if I notice some but won't make too much effort. The orders aren't very likely to have changed anyway.


edit 3: added 2010, updated years 2009 and 2008 (both had a change of winner!). 30 march 2011. Too early yet to make a 2011 item.
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26. Board Game: Advanced Squad Leader [Average Rating:7.90 Overall Rank:68]
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1985:

The year of my birth (Yiipee!)

The winner:

Advanced Squad Leader
Raw Rating: 7,98
BGG Rating: 7,52
BGG Rank: 42
Of course this would be first of its time! THE wargame by definition!
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1985 was a good year, led by Pursue the Pennant, the definitive baseball boardgame. Other good ones were Warrior Knights and Tales of the Arabian Nights.
 
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ASL carries on where Squad Leader left off, all part of the lineage of Hex-and-Counter tactical games that are the hallmark of 1970s Avalon Hill releases.
 
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1985 is also the year that Wildlife Adventure (Kramer) came out. I believe if the game came out today it would be popular and be seen as fresh and innovative for people that have not played any derivative games such as Expedition or Santa Fe.
 
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27. Board Game: Wizard [Average Rating:6.85 Overall Rank:470]
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1984:

The winner:

Wizard
Raw Rating: 6,84
BGG Rating: 6,63
BGG Rank: 393
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28. Board Game: Up Front [Average Rating:7.88 Overall Rank:101]
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1983:

The winner:

Up Front
Raw Rating: 7,96
BGG Rating: 7,48
BGG Rank: 47
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My birth year, never heard of it!
 
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My birth year, never heard of it!

It's a great game! (one of the early card-driven wargames). There are a lot of us here who hope someone will reprint it soon.
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29. Board Game: Rommel in the Desert [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:322]
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1982:

The winner:

Rommel in the Desert:
Raw Rating: 7,77
BGG Rating: 7,10
Rank: 155
Looks like the 80s were alla bout wargames!
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1. Fellowship of the Ring
2. Gunslinger
3. Borderlands
4. Wizards
5. Star Explorer
 
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Most hobby games before the mid eighties to early nineties were wargames and minis games.
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30. Board Game: A House Divided [Average Rating:7.11 Overall Rank:426]
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1981:

The winner:

A House Divided:
Raw Rating: 7,19
BGG Rating: 6,84
Rank: 265


Other:

Axis & Allies (635)
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Funny How the math/rankings work. House Divided wins but Axis and Allies is so much more the prolific, widely played and known game through these decades.
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Funny How the math/rankings work. House Divided wins but Axis and Allies is so much more the prolific, widely played and known game through these decades.


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Prestonisnormal wrote:
Funny How the math/rankings work. House Divided wins but Axis and Allies is so much more the prolific, widely played and known game through these decades.


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Meaning "more expansions released"...

That's my guess for what it's worth...
Not sure as I don't know either game well...
 
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not necessarily....just that there's a helluva lot more copies of A&A than a House Divided...similarly, how many people have played A&A vs A House Divided.


of course, you can say the same thing for Monopoly.
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What no Car Wars? This was my gateway to "board gaminmg after joining the Navy this year. I loved playing this game and bouth all of the Uncle Alberts books.
 
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31. Board Game: Civilization [Average Rating:7.57 Overall Rank:87]
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1980:

The winner:

Civilization:
Raw Rating: 7,59
BGG Rating: 7,39
Rank: 67
An ultra-classic

Other:

Titan (204)
Can't Stop (248)
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1. Civilization
2. Titan
2. Empires of the Middle Ages
3. Mythology
4. Quirks
5. Knights of Camalot
6. Swashbuckler
7. Samurai
8. Dragon Pass

Can't stop?
 
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The games quoted in "other" usually aren't the best games according to ranking but are games that I knew about and thought were pretty famous (like Risk or Uno for 1959). I didn't know about the other games.

Plus: since for every year I used the advanced research for games released in 19xx + rating above 7 (or 6 or 5, the older I went, the lower the minimum rating I used) so there might be some games that got squeezed out...

But if you feel I've missed some pretty important ones, feel free to comment!
(I'm not saying this for you since you obviously did but for some others wondering if they should!)
 
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the rankings I give are my own (or what they should be, of course)
 
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32. Board Game: Dune [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:91]
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1979:

The winner:

Dune:
Raw Rating: 7,75
BGG Rating: 7,48
Rank: 48
Almost 40 and still in the top 50!

edit: almost 30!! Sorry for the miscalculation (and I'm supposed to be a statistician...surpriseblush )
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Almost 30, that is.
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Yes, this is the year I was born - please don't make me almost 40!!!
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Until that fateful day sometime this coming year, we can legitimately tell people that we're 29 years old!

Anyone over 30 saying that is a filthy liar.
 
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Star Fleet Battles - original pocket version. Almost 30 years and still going strong.
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Yes, this is the year I was born - please don't make me almost 40!!!

If it weren't for the only alternative, I would wholeheartedly agree.
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The gaming club at my college has a copy of this in their books and games library. It was a surprisingly fun game, for being older than me. There's nothing quite like comboing family atomics with weather control ^_^

Dang, I need to play that again...
 
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33. Board Game: Junta [Average Rating:6.91 Overall Rank:423]
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1978:

The winner:

Junta:
Raw Rating: 6,98
BGG Rating: 6,76
Rank: 309
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Yes...my birthyear and its a great game!!...
 
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34. Board Game: Squad Leader [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:191]
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1977:

The winner:

Squad Leader:
Raw Rating: 7,50
BGG Rating: 7,17
Rank: 128

Other:

Cosmic Encounter (222) which gave birth to some expansions...
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Bought this bad boy when it came out and still have it today!
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Ahh the year I started playing games was born. This bad boy came before me but it's still on my shelf.
 
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35. Board Game: Panzergruppe Guderian [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:812]
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1976:

The winner:

Panzergruppe Guderian:
Raw Rating: 7,27
BGG Rating: 6,53
Rank: 490
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The year I was born....

Never played, no real interest in playing.... Any good?

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Awesome. The Germans have a moderate number of units with incredible mobility and medium range combat values. The Russians have emor,ous hordes of units which even the Russians don't now the value of until they enter combat. Most of the Russian units are weak and easily broken but some are the strongest units in the game. Every combat becomes a risk for the Germans while the Russian has to manage chaos.
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Agreed. This is/was a fine, fine wargame. Iirc, this was originally released as an S&T Magazine game. My friends and I played it incessantly. Definitely a must-have for any conscientious wargamer.
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36. Board Game: Wooden Ships & Iron Men [Average Rating:6.96 Overall Rank:541]
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1975:

The winner:

Wooden ships & Iron Men:
Raw Rating: 6,96
BGG Rating: 6,67
Rank: 363
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37. Board Game: Liar's Dice [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:298]
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1974:

The winner:

Liar's Dice:
Raw Rating: 7,11
BGG Rating: 7,00
Rank: 191


Other:

Napoleon - The Waterloo Campaign (283)
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Strangely appropriate for the year I was born.

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1574 might be a better date for Liar's Dice. Kinda like saying Chess came out in 1983 or something...
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So what is the real game for 1974?
 
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38. Board Game: Hare & Tortoise [Average Rating:6.70 Overall Rank:600]
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1973:

The winner:

Hare & Tortoise:
Raw Rating: 6,76
BGG Rating: 6,62
Rank: 399
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Someone who knows their SdJ history, how is it that this won the inaugural SdJ in 1979 - was it only released in Germany then?
 
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The first award was given in 1979 and looked at all previous years' games.
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I didn't realize the game was this old! I think it's a good one.
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39. Board Game: Quebec 1759 [Average Rating:6.99 Overall Rank:928]
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1972:

The winner:

Quebec 1759:
Raw Rating: 7,03
BGG Rating: 6,42
Rank: 585

Other:

Boggle (1101)
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40. Board Game: Speed Circuit [Average Rating:6.83 Overall Rank:816]
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1971:

The winner:

Speed Circuit:
Raw Rating: 6,84
BGG Rating: 6,48
Rank: 529

Other:

Balderdash (788)
Uno (4705): one of the least well ranked of its year!
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This was the year I was born... Funny, I even owned this game once!
 
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Excellent game. I played Formula De once. It made me wish I was playing Speed Circuit. Formula De simply isn't better than this in any way.
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41. Board Game: PanzerBlitz [Average Rating:6.38 Overall Rank:1310]
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1970:

The winner:

PanzerBlitz:
Raw Rating: 6,34
BGG Rating: 6,10
Rank: 1096
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I was hoping for something other than a war game (not that there's anything wrong with war games). I was just hoping for a Sid Sakson design, I guess.
 
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Panzer Blitz came out before Squad Leader, eh? Didn't know that!
 
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joewyka wrote:
Panzer Blitz came out before Squad Leader, eh? Didn't know that!


Panzer Blitz and Panzer Leader were the forerunners of Squad Leader, and were the direct offspring of Tactics and Tactics II.
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A friend and I played this game so much in college that he very nearly flunked out!
 
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Actually, Panzer Leader developed from Panzerblitz. Panzerblitz had its origins in "Tactical Game 3" from Simulations Publications, Inc.

"Tactics" and "Tactics II" were operational games, depicting a much larger unit scale than the platoon/company level "Panzerblitz."

PBlitz and PLeader can only be said to derive from "Tactics" in the broad sense that they are map-and-counters wargames.
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42. Board Game: A Gamut of Games [Average Rating:7.76 Overall Rank:579]
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1969:

The winner:

A Gamut of Games:
Raw Rating: 7,78
BGG Rating: 6,82
Rank: 274
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So not just one game for the year of my birth, but a whole gamut! Sweet.
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Isn't this actually a book with rules for games?

Given that, the top three ranked games for 1969 are:

Lines of Action (747) - interestingly, rules for this are in the above book
Anzio (1210)
Monad (2123) - one of the 3M "small box" games
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43. Board Game: Strat-o-Matic Football [Average Rating:7.15 Overall Rank:1455]
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1968:

The winner:

Strat-o-Matic Football:
Raw Rating: 7,22
BGG Rating: 6,19
BGG Rank: 885
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42 and still the best Football sim on the market
 
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44. Board Game: Sleuth [Average Rating:6.78 Overall Rank:640]
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1967:

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Sleuth:
Raw Rating: 6,90
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Huzzah!
 
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Great Game...I'm tempted to say underrated
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45. Board Game: Win, Place & Show [Average Rating:6.70 Overall Rank:1104]
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1966:

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Win Place & Show:
Raw Rating: 6,68
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very good for a game of that age
 
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46. Board Game: Nuclear War [Average Rating:6.24 Overall Rank:1388]
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1965:

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Nuclear War:
Raw Rating: 6,31
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Yes! I love Nuclear War. Only played it once... but that should tell you how great it is that I love it.
 
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jpwrunyan wrote:
Only played it once...


That's pretty much the norm with nuclear wars in general...
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Being a hardcore wargamer at the time, I resisted playing this one for a good while. I'm so glad I matured. This is a great beer'n'pretzels game, and once everyone knows what they're doing, plays very quickly.
 
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jpwrunyan wrote:
Only played it once...


That's pretty much the norm with nuclear wars in general...


Yes. That's another great thing about Nuclear War. It tends to be conclusive!
 
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47. Board Game: Midway [Average Rating:6.51 Overall Rank:1442]
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1964:

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Midway:
Raw Rating: 6,53
BGG Rating: 6,15
BGG Rank: 964
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48. Board Game: Dogfight [Average Rating:6.22 Overall Rank:2498]
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1963:

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Dogfight:
Raw Rating: 6,10
BGG Rating: 5,80
BGG Rank: 1968
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I found this in the thrift store recently. Nice to know it's the best in it's class.
 
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I played this with my father-in-law-to-be. It's not bad at all!
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Thought the game was a few years older, recall fondly playing it often with my friends and then later my brother when I was a teenager. About twenty years later, a friend and I were poring through the game collection of another friend, and this was the one out of hundreds of games our host had we immediately wanted to play
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This one is very sentimental to me. I was a kid in the 60s (now 52). My mom or dad bought (now both gone) me this for Christmas and had no idea what a great game it was. I loved that game - not only because it was a good gaem - but because it was a gift from my parents that I think they knew I'd love.
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In the seventies, my father and I used to play this in Lexington, Michigan...he's gone, the cottage is gone, and somewhere along the line, the game disappeared too... I need to get this one back.
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49. Board Game: Acquire [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:106]
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1962:

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Acquire:
Raw Rating: 7,57
BGG Rating: 7,46
BGG Rank: 53
46 years and was in the top 50 not so long ago!

Other:

Strat-o-matic Baseball (371)
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Ahhh...d10-1d10-9d10-6d10-2... An excellent vintage!
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My birth year. "The start of Euro Gaming" IMO
 
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Acquire is one of the all-time greatest designs ever.
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Sad that
came out this year too. That's the only reason it lost to Acquire. Strat-o-Matic Baseball has a 7.54 rating here and just lost.
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stephenstover wrote:
My birth year. "The start of Euro Gaming" IMO

This is the second Euro. The first was Careers.
 
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I picked up some 70s copy of Aquire at the fleamarket in pretty much mint condition for 2 €... is it worth more anyways??
 
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50. Board Game: Broker [Average Rating:5.82 Overall Rank:4456]
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1961:

The winner:

Broker:
Raw Rating: 5,87
BGG Rating: 5,64
BGG Rank: 2936
 
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1961- A bad year for games, but a good year for Geeks!!
 
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Too old for a geeklist ... cry
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Carmilla wrote:
Too old for a geeklist ... cry


Well you'll just have to pick your own game

For 1978 I would like to submit: Grand Imperialism




 
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Carmilla wrote:
Too old for a geeklist ... cry


Don't you worry, I'll add previous years in a day or so! Be sure to check!

But right now, I need to got to work...
 
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What is scarry is that I have owned most of the games on the list at one time or another and played most of the games listed on the list after 1981 in the YEAR they came out. Been gaming ALLLLOOOONNNGGGG time
 
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What's interesting to me about this list is that it seems to take 50 years for a game to really be part of the culture, at least in here in the States. I mean Monopoly, Clue, Risk, Sorry etc, those games are at the tail end of the list. I know we've had Trivial Pursuit join the public consciousness, but man.

Maybe your grandfather has to have played it for it to not be newfangled or something.
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Added this to my "metalist of personal games of the year"
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/30230/
 
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