A strategy game resembling the one-by-one picking off of the crew of the Nostromo with cool themed art meant a fun game even if it’s a bit puzzling that this ever got made. It makes the game’s objective even more amusing, considering the ages 7+ game sees its players guiding their crew members through the ship to the safety of the escape pod while using their Alien to eliminate the crew members belonging to other players. In case anyone had forgotten (I know you haven’t), Alien is pure R-rated terror. Movies get product tie-ins all the time, but what makes this one extra cool is that this Alien themed board game was aimed squarely at kids. This one was a silly family game that utilized the charm of the Disney attraction on which it was based. Spinning ghosts, however, work to throw the player out of direction via turntable. The gameplay is straightforward players use doom buggies to make their way through the mansion with the sole objective to escape. The clear highlight is the fun artwork from the attraction, not just on the board itself but on the stand-up backdrop that sits at the edge of the board. Nowadays Disney is known for adding attraction themed facelifts to popular board games like Clue or Monopoly, but back in the ‘70s, Disney’s beloved attraction from Walt Disney World got its own game. The coolest part of all is that, according to the rules, “When the game is over and the room is plunged into darkness, it is said that the image of Uncle Everett may be seen.” It sounds like a new generation needs an opportunity to see Uncle Everett. The table concealed a hidden mini record player that played Everett’s voice from beyond the grave. The board itself is of a Victorian room, each chair representing a player set gathered around a table. Each one starts with $20,000 and gameplay allows them to make more, or lose some. Uncle Everett passed away and left instructions for his kin to hold a séance so that his spirit would guide them on the distribution of his wealth. This Milton Bradley board game sees players as the nieces and nephews of dear old Uncle Everett. Sounds like a wholesome childhood pastime to me!
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Players are considered cursed, therefore eliminated, when their doll is too full of pins to continue. To do so, players must first stir the cauldron in the center with a bone, and the suspended skull moves around the board to land on numerous voodoo spaces. The basic point of the game is to fill up your opposing witch doctor’s voodoo doll with pins while defending your own from being pinned. One of the more delightfully twisted game concepts, this one saw players cast in the role of witch doctors. More haunted house themed board games are a plus. While this one is much more geared toward a younger demographic, subverting what a board game is by implementing a 3D playing field is ingenious. The first player to obtain the jewel escaped the haunted house and won the game.
There were secret doors and passageways to navigate as players made their way to the Jewel. The spinner was an owl that made hooting sounds.
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Produced by Ideal Toy Company, players moved through the standing haunted house using a spinner to direct movement.
Completely opposite to what the name “board game” implies, this game is played not on a board but on a huge three-dimensional plastic haunted house. I can see why this one fell into obscurity the game is massive. Here are 5 horror-themed vintage board games that should be brought back from the dead: This means that a pastime often associated with childhood is growing in popularity, so there’s no better time than now to revive some long-discontinued board games from the ‘60s and ‘70s, a time when it was commonplace for board games to be associated with monsters, ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
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It probably helps that studios seem to be turning to retro properties more and more to create film adaptations, like Hasbro’s Ouija Board game-turned-Blumhouse film series and the upcoming adaptation of JAKKS Pacific toy brand Creepy Crawlers. Thanks to films like Beyond the Gates and horror-themed board games like Mixtape Massacre, The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31, and more, the horror board game is stepping out of the shadows.
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