Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Vintage Board games

If you are ever bored, peruse your local goodwill or Amazon for some vintage board games.  I was sad to see some web searches labeled the games I played and have from the 90s as vintage.  To clear things up I looked up standard definitions of antique and vintage.  Antique means 100 years old or more while vintage would be at least 20 years old.  So vintage should finish in 1993 making the searches correct.  For instance Touring England came out in 1935 and you can find now on Amazon for around 15$.  The antique game I would like to aquire is The New Pilgrims Progress from 1893.   Do you recognize or still play any of these games in any version?
See list of vintage games
http://www.vintagetoybox.co.uk/A-Z.htm
See article for era terms defined
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/age-defining-an-130615

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