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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 19, 2019 20:39:04 GMT -8
My brother deals in a lot of eBay and other reselling of stuff he finds. He had this in the office recently:
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Post by timothylane on Dec 19, 2019 21:01:05 GMT -8
I've played my share of Milton Bradley games when I was young (Parker Brothers, too). But I don't recall this one. Except maybe Milles Bornes (I think that was the title), I don't recall playing any card games of that sort (i.e., not involving a standard card deck), though there were some that included cards. Monopoly does, when it comes to that.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 19, 2019 22:12:16 GMT -8
Parker Brothers had a lot of good games and brings back a lot of good memories. I had Milles Bornes but I’m not sure I played it much. It was an old set that looked something like this:  The cards themselves looked something like this:  I think it was a case of that it looks like a real fun game, in theory. In practice it was pretty blah. That's surely why I didn't play it much. Maybe I just didn't have a confederate who was enthusiastic and chould show me how much fun it was. I don't know. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 19, 2019 22:15:44 GMT -8
And you gotta love the Parker Brothers logo. You're sure to be sucked into a vortex of fun:  There was an older style logo as well that was common. The name in a script font was above the whirlpool. I can't find a good copy online although I can see it on some of the covers of the old board games. But not the isolated logo itself. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 19, 2019 22:17:33 GMT -8
There's even a pre-vortex version of the logo as you can see on this 1954 version of Monopoly:  |
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Post by timothylane on Dec 20, 2019 7:06:13 GMT -8
I know I've seen Mille Bornes and am familiar with the game, but I never had a copy and can't have played it much. I do recall playing a game of Great War air combat that had a similar concept but actually involved a board or some such as well as the cards that were used to resolve combat.
We did have Monopoly and played that a good bit, though I don't know if I ever played it to completion (i.e., the other player went bankrupt). My brother said he actually did once, bankrupting my sister. We also played a lot of Careers (my goals tended to be evenly split between money and happiness).
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