a few board games to try and guess

[humanracer]

Help with any of these would be much appreciated.

1. A game about spies. May have been called spy ring or spy hunt. It included things like microfilm etc

2.A game, I think set on an island. One thing I remember is plastic pieces of lava that went on the board, obviously from a volcano or something.

3.Hard one because I don't think it's a mainstream game. I think it was made by a fantasy game company but it is not hero quest or anything like that. It involved moving nice painted figures around a board. You had to put square tiles on the board which mapped out your route. Sometimes you would draw a tile with had a bottomless pit!. The aim of the game was to get to the middle and take treasure from a dragon. Difficult I know but give it a go.

4.Teenage hero turtles game with lots of cards. It wasn't the one where you had to flip discs.

Cheers

[Heather74]

N0.2 Fireball Island?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1768

List of Teenage Turle games
BoardGameGeek | Gaming Unplugged Since 2000

Spy ring ? as you suggested
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3640

No. 3 It from the pit ?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11149

[Marine Boy]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

1. Yes, I do recall, 'Spy Ring' (I think) but there was also 'Microdot' where the print on the cards was supposedly so small, you needed a magnifying glass to read it!

[Emettman]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

"Microdot", I think, rather than "Spy Ring"

The second could be "The Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs"
Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs | BoardGameGeek
Lava pieces *and* a swooping Pterydactyl

[humanracer]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

N0.2 Fireball Island?
Fireball Island | BoardGameGeek

List of Teenage Turle games
BoardGameGeek | Gaming Unplugged Since 2000

Spy ring ? as you suggested
Spy Ring | BoardGameGeek

No. 3 It from the pit ?
It From The Pit | BoardGameGeek

Thanks, found the turtles game and SPY RING is correct. Cheers

[humanracer]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

"Microdot", I think, rather than "Spy Ring"

The second could be "The Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs"
Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs | BoardGameGeek
Lava pieces *and* a swooping Pterydactyl

Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs...YES that's right. Cheers. I need to buy it off ebay now.

[humanracer]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Just number 3 we need to find now. It might be difficult because like I said it was probably made by one of these companies that are famous for fantasy based games.

[Emettman]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Thanks, found the turtles game and SPY RING is correct. Cheers

Was there a re-write or another game of the same name?
My copy of Spy Ring has the radio aerials for hats, and large code cards to make "Fish" out of, but no microfilm...

Ah:
"The newer (1970's) version of the game changed in quite a few ways, but still bore a great resemblance to the original. The newer version was more of a race to collect a set of secrets (reading them using a "decoder"), and the contact man became a bodyguard for your spy."

Boardgamegeek delivers again!
Spy Ring | BoardGameGeek

Being older, I have the pre-70's version!

[Heather74]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Which of the Turtle games was it?

[humanracer]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Which of the Turtle games was it?

Pizza Power Game, but I also remember "tower of doom" (a turtles version of Kerplunk).

I also remember "search for shredder", I didn't have it but I would play it with my classmates.

[bun]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Yes I had that game Spy Ring, I sat in my bedroom opening my sack on christmas morning thinking why the hell would santa bring me such an obscure and difficult game, I think i was far too young at 8. did it also feature certain defunct airlines such as Pan Am too?
I always wanted "purple people eater" but i didnt get this. also got a game about hotels, anyone remember than one?

[Heather74]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

MB Hotel always looked like a boring version of Monopoly in my opinion never really appealed to me.
The Purple People Eater however looked fantastic,
https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/t...ple-eater.html
http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/hotel-game Hotel

[Emettman]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

MB Hotel always looked like a boring version of Monopoly in my opinion never really appealed to me.

Ouch! I never liked Monopoly: it took too long and because of that acquired too many "house rules" that varied from family to family (causing rows when you played with friends outside your own family)
Yet it is inflicted upon generation upon generation, and now collectors too are exploited by myriad "special editions".

So many property games...
My top three:
Manhattan (OK, with Godzilla variant from time to time)
Ransom (as a portable travel card game, especially)
and top of all, Ravensberger's Metropolis
Metropolis | BoardGameGeek
Nice pieces, cooperation and competition, and good playing length.
(Big City and Chinatown came later but got a little more complex, a plus or minus according to your game-playing taste.)

[rossobantam]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Help with any of these would be much appreciated.

...........3.Hard one because I don't think it's a mainstream game. I think it was made by a fantasy game company but it is not hero quest or anything like that. It involved moving nice painted figures around a board. You had to put square tiles on the board which mapped out your route. Sometimes you would draw a tile with had a bottomless pit!. The aim of the game was to get to the middle and take treasure from a dragon. Difficult I know but give it a go........

Hi, this is definitely DUNGEONQUEST....which I have, and played only a few weeks ago







As you randomnly draw the tiles (like Scrabble) then no two games will ever be the same. Added tension is due to the fact that you must be in & out of the dungeon (with treasure ideally!) before the sun has set (sun counter moves on one space after all players have had their turn)

Dave

[humanracer]

Re: a few board games to try and guess

Hi, this is definitely DUNGEONQUEST....which I have, and played only a few weeks ago







As you randomnly draw the tiles (like Scrabble) then no two games will ever be the same. Added tension is due to the fact that you must be in & out of the dungeon (with treasure ideally!) before the sun has set (sun counter moves on one space after all players have had their turn)

Dave

Wow..I never thought I would find that name of that game again. Amazing. You have made my day.


Cheers