Reviews

Despite being a roll-and-move game, Big Foot towers over most of its competition in the genre and is quite a bit of fun for families.

Are you ready for some Pig Pong? No not Ping Pong but Pig Pong. Pig Pong is a 1986 game created by Milton Bradley where players use a pig in order to blow air to push the ball onto the other side of the net. Pig Pong may be a children’s game but is is surprisingly more enjoyable for adults than you would expect.

Sid Sackson is a well known board game designer. With over 100 titles to his name, Sid Sackson made a lot of games in his career. One of his best reviewed games was Bazaar. Based on the box I wasn’t expecting much from Bazaar. After playing I was surprised to find that Bazaar is a simple game that has more strategy to it than you would expect.

Faces is a game of first impressions. Looking at faces, can you determine which one the judge thinks is “the one whose call you’ve been dodging?” While not perfect, Faces is a good party game.

Despite your pleas of innocence, you have been locked in a deep dark dungeon. You need to try and escape from the dungeon before it is too late. With your trusty dice, you need to roll your way to safety. While Dungeon Dice is not a terrible game, it is far from original.

Name a color that starts with the letter Z. Be quick on your feet in order to grab the card before one of your competitors. This is a gist of what you can expect from the 2009 University Games game ASAP. ASAP is a quick to learn and play game that packs some fun into an all too familiar package.

Ready! Set! Spaghetti! In this 1989 Milton Bradley game you try to roll up your spaghetti before your competitors. While Ready! Set! Spaghetti should appeal to children, the game relies too heavily on luck to be very entertaining for adults.

“Hippie Daniel Boone secretly poisoned the office fatty.” This is just one of the wacky sentences created during the game of You’ve Been Sentenced that I recently played. You’ve Been Sentenced is not what you would call a serious word game. While it is not fantastic, You’ve Been Sentenced is probably one of the better word games that I have played.

In 1985 Tabby Toys created the roll and move game Hostage The Board Game. Hostage has players try to rescue a hostage and return him to their base before any of the other players are able to. Hostage has some interesting ideas for a roll and move game but unfortunately suffers from stalling which could lead to a game that could theoretically never end.

In 1970 Parker Brothers tried to create their own version of air hockey with the game Buckshot. Buckshot is billed as the “world’s fastest indoor game.” Unfortunately the game is slower than advertised and is just plain boring.