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My Board Game Collection
Matt Ottinger:
At the risk of crossing a line into crass commercialism, a lot of you wanted to know what's in my collection, so I hastily took some pictures and posted them on a hidden page on my I've Got a Secret site. You can go there just to browse my collection for fun, but if you're interested in owning some for yourself, there are instructions on that page for how to get that ball rolling.
A great many of the older games will be donated to the Strong Museum of Play (including the collection I'm most proud of -- my radio games, which are not pictured) but I wanted my game show friends and acquaintances to fill in some holes in their own collections if they were so inclined.
Please do not make requests on this thread. Because my ego needs it, feel free to comment on the collection itself. This was a large part of my life for a long time, and it feels weird breaking it up after all these years.
I haven't gotten back to everyone who's already contacted me, but I am working on it. Please have patience. This is just one element of several I am juggling as we plan our move.
https://ivegotasecret.nicepage.io/Games.html
SuperMatch93:
Those of you who own Say When!!:
Do you play it by Parker Brothers' rules, or do you adapt it? My own copy is relatively complete, but I don't like how the prize and its price are on the same side of the card.
TLEberle:
That basically makes it drafting blackjack, yes?
I found the DIY TPIR and you could slap together Say When with the dry erase pads and prize compendium,
Chelsea Thrasher:
Seeing the pile of NES games took me back. When I was a kid, I got my cousin's hand-me-down NES when he upgrades to the SNES, and a local rental place in town had several of the various game show adaptations.
I played the hell out of the NES adaptation of Davidson HS (which did a ridiculously good job adapting the show's music for 8-bit). I'm not generally a retro gaming person (and haven't had a console in years), but every single time I see the NES Squares adaptation I always get this dumb little grin.
I've seen the collection in person once, and it's outstanding - and be it the Strong Museum, those folks who take various pieces of it, or whomever: You're getting some absolute gems.
aaron sica:
Completely unrelated to the games, Matt, but where did you get the little shelving units that you sit the games on?
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