Especially those fantastic TV game show home versions.
My stash currently includes:
Acquire
Airport: The Airline Game
The Amazing Race (DVD Edition)
American Idol - The Board Game
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? (DVD Edition)
Arkham Horror
Around the World in 80 Days
AtmosFear
Backgammon
Beat the Clock
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Big Brother - The Board Game
Big Numbers: The High Rollers Game
Billionaire
Blockbusters
Break the Safe
Card Sharks
Catch Phrase
Clever Endeavor
Clue (DVD Edition)
Clue FX
Clue Mysteries
Clue Suspects
Concentration (Classic Concentration Edition)
Concentration (Twenty-Third Edition)
Cranium
Cranium Zigity
C.S.I.
Dark Tower
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal (DVD Edition)
Deal or No Deal (Electronic Edition)
Deal or No Deal (Suitcase Card Game Edition)
Diplomacy
Everybody's Talking
The Exciting New Game of the Kennedys
Eye Guess (Second Edition)
Family Feud (DVD Edition)
Family Feud (Second Edition)
Fury of Dracula
The Game of Life
Gay Monopoly
Get the Message
Hero Quest
Hero Quest: Barbarian Quest Pack
Hero Quest: Elf Quest Pack
Hero Quest: Kellar's Keep Quest Pack
Hero Quest: Return of the Witch Lord Quest Pack
Hotels
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jack Pot
Jan Murray's Charge Account
Jeopardy (DVD Edition)
Jeopardy (Ninth Edition)
Jeopardy (Pressman, 1986)
Jeopardy (Pressman, 2007)
Joker, Joker, Joker
The Joker's Wild
Landslide!
Law & Order Detective Game
Let's Make a Deal
Let's Make a Deal (DVD Edition)
Let's Make a Deal (Electronic Edition)
Live Bingo (DVD Edition)
Lost Treasure
Marvel Heroes
Masterpiece
Match Game (DVD Edition)
Mating Game (NBC Bookshelf Games)
Millenniumopoly
Mob Strategy (NBC Bookshelf Games)
Monopoly
Monopoly (Electronic Banking Edition)
Monopoly (Mega Edition)
Murder, She Wrote
Mystery of the Abbey
Name That Tune (80s DVD Edition)
The Newlywed Game
The $100,000 Pyramid (DVD Edition)
The $1,000,000.00 Chance of a Lifetime
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
1 vs. 100 (DVD Edition)
Operation (Simpsons Edition)
Pandemic
Password (DVD Edition)
Password (Endless Games Second Edition)
Password (Milton Bradley First Edition)
Password (Milton Bradley Eleventh Edition)
Password Plus
Payday
Pictionary (First Edition)
Pit
Pop Smarts
Press Your Luck (DVD Edition)
The Price is Right (DVD Edition)
The Price is Right (Endless Games)
The Price is Right (Lowell First Edition)
The Price is Right (Milton Bradley Second Edition)
Pyramid
Race Night
Real People
Risk 2210 A.D.
Route 66
Sale of the Century
San Francisco
Scene It
Scene It (James Bond Edition)
Scene It (TV Edition)
Scotland Yard
Scrabble
Scrabble Me
Scrabble (Super Scrabble Edition)
Scrabble (Travel Edition)
Scrabble (Turntable Edition)
Scrabble (TV Game Show Edition)
Sequence
Settlers of Catan
Simply Suspects
Stratego
Survivor - The Board Game
Survivor - The Australian Outback Card Game
Taboo (Electronic Edition)
The $10,000 Pyramid (Second Edition)
Tic Tac Dough
Travel Bingo (Regular Edition)
Travel Bingo (Interstate Highways Edition)
Trivial Pursuit (Original Edition)
Trivial Pursuit (Pop Culture DVD Edition)
Trivial Pursuit (RPM Edition)
Trivial Pursuit (Silver Screen Edition)
Two For the Money
The $25,000 Pyramid
24 (DVD Edition)
Twin Peaks Murder Mystery Game
221 B Baker Street
Two for the Money
Vampire Hunter
Vegas (NBC Bookshelf Games)
Vegas Showdown
Video Village
Weakest Link
What's My Line?
Wheel of Fortune (Pressman Second Edition)
Wheel of Fortune (Pressman Deluxe Edition)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Whodunit
Win, Place, Show
The World of Wall Street (NBC Bookshelf Games)
You Don't Say!
Zombies!! (Director's Cut Edition)
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Some highlights from my collection:
Pandemic
Players assume the role of specialists at the CDC/Atlanta where they bear witness
to simultaneous virulent disease outbreaks all over the world. The team mission is
to prevent a world-wide pandemic, treating hotspots while researching cures for
each of the four plagues before they get out of hand.
Mystery of the Abbey
A monk has been murdered in a medieval French Abbey. Players maneuver
through the Abbey examining clues and questioning each other to discover
the culprit.
Airport: The Airline Game
The goal is to create the most profitable airline, a variant on the Monopoly theme.
Video Village
Based upon a 1960 television show in which the set was a "living board game"
and the contestants were the playing pieces.
Twin Peaks Murder Mystery Game
Based upon the 1990 television drama by David Lynch, this British board game
lets players take the role of one of the show's principal characters to try and
discover who BOB is using as a host to commit murders.
Break the Safe
Players take the role of spies racing against a clock that starts at 30 minutes and
ticks down to the game's end. The object is to get 4 keys to open the safe and
return to the start to stop the clock. The keys are found under booby traps that
require a specific tool to disarm. A security guard and a guard dog patrol the board
and send you to jail if they catch you.
HeroQuest
HeroQuest is a 1990 fantasy board game in which players take on the role of one of
four heroes: Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, or Wizard. Another player takes the role of the
Game Master, who controls the forces of Chaos that the Heroes face in hidden stone
labyrinths. Designed by Steve Baker, who worked for Milton Bradley UK. Much of the
artwork, along with figure sculpting, was done by Games Workshop.
Betrayal at House on the Hill
It's never the same game twice. As one of twelve mysterious characters, you explore
a house filled with deadly secrets. As you play, you build the house around you...but
beware! One of your fellow players will betray you and you must use all your skills to
survive as you are put face-to-face with legendary monsters and modern nightmare
scenarios form horror and sci-fi films. Terrificly fun to play!
AtmosFear (DVD Edition)
An update to the 1995 AtmosFear VCR game, the aim is to collect a key from each of six
regions of the board before heading to the "Well of Fears" in the centre and attempting to
draw your fear from among those of your opponents in order to win the game. This must
be done while the menacing "Gatekeeper" shouts at you and before the DVD timer elapses
at 49 minutes, or all players lose automatically!
Fury of Dracula
In this game of Gothic adventure, Dracula has returned and is determined to control all
of Europe by creating an undead empire of vampires. One player takes the role of Dracula
while up to four others attempt to stop him by controlling Vampire hunters from the famous
Bram Stoker novel.
$1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
Based on a short-lived 1980s American game show which offered a $1 million grand prize to
couples who competed to solve computer-generated word puzzles. Kind of a cross between
Wheel of Fortune and Scrabble. Pre-dated the big cash prize of Who Wants to be a Millionaire
by a decade.
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Would love to have:
Ice Cube - Milton Bradley, 1972
Freeze your men in the supplied ice tray and move around the waterproof board.
Loved playing this when I was a kid. The high mess factor ensured that many
moms threw this one out, thereby allowing the rare remaining copies to command
very high prices on eBay.
Voice of the Mummy - Milton Bradley, 1974
Players move around a multi-level pyramid collecting gems. A small battery-powered
record player inside the sarcophagus at the center of the board instructs players on
their moves and gem collecting.
Haunted House - Ideal, 1962
A hooting owl spinner, spooks behind doors and a hidden jewel in the attic! This game
has it all! Presented in a MASSIVE 22" x 19" x 8" box. Players make their way through
a moulded plastic three-dimensional multi-roomed Haunted House (which is almost as
large as the box) using a unique owl fruit-machine type spinner that actually 'hoots' to
direct movement, until one reaches the point - a secret door - where a Jewel is located.