I played most of the games mentioned, but one of my favs that has disappeared was Masterpiece which gave you a little art history, with famous painting cards and bidding and such.

And I loved Risk right up until the point when I decided that I was a pacifist and opposed war games that glorified military conflict. Yeah, I was that kind of kid. I must have been so insufferable.

You would have loved the (incredibly boring) cooperative game I used to try to make my parents play all the time! You were beavers trying to build a dam, but the Army Corps of Engineers kept thwarting you! Or something.

It was called RPM!

From BoardGame geek:

RPM is a word game played on a revolving board. The board is divided into 4 quarters. Each quarter has a top and bottom section. The object of the game is to form and capture words of 2 or more letters by placing letter tiles, one per quarter, as the board revolves. All players make their moves at the same time. The board makes exactly 5 revolutions before it is automatically stopped. This gives each player 20 opportunities to place his tiles. Colored tiles are used to capture completed words.

There's a couple for sale and I'm very tempted.

one of my favs that has disappeared was Masterpiece which gave you a little art history, with famous painting cards and bidding and such.

Ooooh. We should totally design a Leverage board game. Like Clue, only you go around a museum stealing stuff.

I played most of the games mentioned, but one of my favs that has disappeared was Masterpiece which gave you a little art history, with famous painting cards and bidding and such.

We had that, but I always loved the concept more than the execution. See also, Match Game.

Games I loved: Milles Bournes, Trivial Pursuit, Connect Four, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Backgammon

Games I like(d): Clue, Battleship, Connect Four, poker, Uno

Games I loathed: Monopoly and most chance games. I really hated (and still pretty much do) any game the outcome of which was entirely based on chance. I just did not see the point.

I loved Masterpiece. I think if we found a Masterpiece set and a Clue set, we could TOTALLY put together a Leverage game, Tom.

Yahtzee! I forgot about that one, played that as a kid, play that now.

Isn't that essentially the basis of Catholicism?

I think that is essentially the basis of Protestantism. The Catholics thought that there was good and evil in everyone, and you could "earn" good by good works, confession. Eventually this led to corruption and selling of indulgences and all sorts of things.

The Protestant view (in the Reformation) was that everything was black and dark in all of our souls, but some people had a pre-determined "cloak of grace" that covered up all the nastiness. And since it was all pre-determined, you had no control over whether you were going to heaven or hell BUT you didn't know which was you were to go, so you needed to act good just in case. It never really made since to me, but I was taught this at a nominally Catholic college, so maybe I am wrong.

Hah! Leverage, the game: [link]