What game(s) did your daddy play?

[aaatoysandmore]

We're always talking about the games we play but, what games did your daddy play an perhaps influence you to the games you play today?

My dad played a lot of poker, you know those Friday or Saturday night games with his friends? He also liked blitz (a card game to 31 like 21 only the person who was closest to 31 when someone shouted blitz won the hand. If someone shouted blitz and lost the hand they had to pay double the pot which was different ante's like a quarter to dollars.

[cpdeyoung]

My father was an avid model railroader. He and a bunch of guys, probably all WW2 vets, formed an operating club in an old depot after the war. Their pike was magnificent, O gauge, huge. They had raised observation and control areas, with access points throughout the pike where they could pop up to do maintenance etc.

As I remember they had operating nights where they would follow a schedule seeking efficiency goals. They also had "show off" nights where the public was specially invited to see the show.

Big operation - all analog, of course. Real estate matters eventually took the old depot, and the club got smaller. It was featured in "Model Railroader" magazine however.

My dad was an engineer, and artist, and both talents went into building gorgeous brass models of locomotives and rolling stock. I always felt he was acknowledged the finest modeler in the club. He had a small area of my parent's bedroom closed off for model building - six kids - wise precaution!

He encouraged the kids to build models and I may have to build one just thinking about it. I had a small pike, HO gauge, after college, but don't do any now. Later gaming influences turned my modeling to military equipment, although it had always been an interest.

Chuck

[Lecivius]

My dad was a total geek. Not being into games, or trains, he was one of the engineers who converted the AN/APS-145 Radar radar to work on E-2's. Even in his 'off time'. I remember as a kid driving all over San Francisco with the Old Man to different shacks, at all hours of the day, any day of the week, to peer into oscilloscopes. I was way to young to know just WTF he was doing, but we saw more of the bay area than anyone else I know of.

Good times [8D]

[IslandInland]

My dad played cricket, football and chess. He doesn't play anything now as he is old. As far as I am aware he has never played a computer game in his life except for Space Invaders and the like when I was a child.

He imparted in me a love of cricket and football. I tried to get into chess but settled for the easier option: computer based wargames. [:D]

[solops]

Golf and gin rummy.

[sullafelix]

House with my mother, but I digress.

Instead of bedtime stories we played craps.

He owed me a bought a million dollars last count.

[reg113]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

My dad was a total geek. Not being into games, or trains, he was one of the engineers who converted the AN/APS-145 Radar radar to work on E-2's.

When I worked on E-2's it was the An/APS-96 [8|]

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: reg113

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

My dad was a total geek. Not being into games, or trains, he was one of the engineers who converted the AN/APS-145 Radar radar to work on E-2's.

When I worked on E-2's it was the An/APS-96 [8|]

OK, OK, so I got it wrong. So shoot me (but ya gotta find me first) [;)] Dalmo Victor was the contractor the old man worked for. I don't even know if it's still in business.

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Guess they got sold

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-02-04/ ... nger-dalmo

[Chickenboy]

My dad played chess, bridge, other card games and backgammon semi-seriously.

His real passion growing up was baseball. When he served in the US Army in the 1950s, he was a member of the 5th Army baseball team. He wasn't the most gifted player physically, but he really thrived with the effort he put into it and giving it all he had.

He and I played Risk and Stratego quite a bit growing up. Casual wargaming. I never could get him into ASL, Panzer Leader or some of the other board games I grew up with. Even Axis and Allies was off his radar. When I showed him WiTP:AE a few years back, he was blown away with the complexity and time necessary to be a decent player or finish a game.

[CCIP-subsim]

My dad unfortunately hates games nowadays. But back in the day, he was actually the one who introduced me to games - an ancient tape-drive computer with a whopping 64kb of RAM at first, where his favourite game was basically a Russian ripoff of Boulder Dash. Later, we got an Atari computer, which among the games had Silent Service 2. I have fond memories of basically being his "watch officer" - I didn't get good at playing the game myself, but I got very good at identifying ships and giving him advice on tactics against them And actually it's those good times which gave me a life-long love of simulations. Unlike a lot of people, I got into wargaming not because I had an interest in military history, but vice versa - I developed an interest in military history because I discovered that it made for amazing games, and the more realistic, the better!

[Rosseau]

"Cops and Robbers." He was a decorated NYC police officer. My mother played "Trouble" with us.

[aaatoysandmore]

ORIGINAL: rosseau

"Cops and Robbers." He was a decorated NYC police officer. My mother played "Trouble" with us.

You think he ever played "Stop Thief"?

[shunwick]

My old dad's favourite game was Blob. Card game. I think in the US it is called Oh Hell!

Best wishes,
Steve

[Greybriar]

I remember my father playing horseshoes and a card game named Pitch. He knew how to play Solitaire, but I don't remember seeing him play it (I know he knew how because he gave me some advice about Solitaire while I was playing it). Dad was usually too busy doing things that really mattered to waste time playing games.

[Kuokkanen]

My father played Chess, Draughts (with 2 rows per side), and Nine Men's Morris. He had made & painted Draughts and Nine Men's Morris board by himself. When my parents (mother perhaps?) bought me Commodore 64, my father read the manual and loaded up Summer Games. He explained me about lighting up the fire and the white birds. I think he also played Mission: Impossible, but I'm not sure did he play anything else. Over 10 years ago (15?) I loaded up Summer Games on C64 emulator and asked him to take a look. He still remembered the game, but I couldn't get him to play it anymore (or any other video game for that matter).

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I just remembered I had played Monopoly with him. Maybe also the star of Africa.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: shunwick
I think in the US it is called Oh Hell!

Yes! One of our family favorites. Hearts too. [:)]

[waltero]

Games, Games...my Father played no games!

He was a workaholic, No time for games. Born in 1922, he was caught up in the game of life (it was for realz).

[Neilster]

Cricket and rugby league. He was from New South Wales, where both forms of rugby are the traditional Winter sports. I grew up in Tasmania, so I played Australian Football. Cricket is the Summer sport Australia-wide.

Cheers, Neilster