If board games were honest Credit: Smoosh.com

Anyone for a round of ‘You think this game will end in sex but it won’t’?

Board games. Who plays board games anymore? Basically just old folk in care homes and hipsters on Sundays down the pub, right?

But there was a time – back when TV only had three channels and computers were only for science geeks – when board games ruled.

Families would spend hours, days, sometimes even weeks (Monopoly marathon anyone?) locked in board game-based combat, and it was bliss.


So, for those who are old enough to remember the days when boards solved boredom, here are the titles your favourite retro games and toys really deserved.

If board games were honest Credit: Smoosh.com

It’s just all SO TRUE. And yet, we still miss those days… #Mems



Want to ruin even more of your treasured childhood memories? Then check out more Honest games titles on Smoosh.

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