When I was a young child I loved to play school. If we visited relatives for the weekend we would always play a marathon game of monopoly. I don't think I ever won but it was fun. Now, while the children do play the occasional board game, my son is all about the XBOX shooting games. His dad and a sister help him out with the dreaded zombie infestation. Me, I avoid looking at the screen.

i just saw this game in a vintage shop and the memories hit me like a ton of bricks...the pinocchio game! you have to turn pinocchio into a boy again. very good memories from that. i'd play it by myself all the time!

Growing up I loved to play house and store. I would set up the cash register and make everyone buy my toys from me. :) Then we got Nintendo old school for my 8th birthday present, I remember my parents and their friends playing track and field on the mat on the floor, duck hunt. It was a source GREAT entertainment for the WHOLE family, there were games my sister and I could play together which wasn’t easy to find given that we had an 11 year age difference. I love watching my kids and my niece and nephew now play on the Wii together, these gaming systems seem to lessen the age differences.

We love to play uno as a family. Sometimes just the adults played. Sometimes the adults and kids played together.

We would play a variety of board games with our parents. This is a tradition I can't wait to share with our little guys as they become old enough. Family game night will be a regular part of our routine one day.

Well, there was so many great times as a kid! But a few that stick out the most are. School the whole block played, but the teacher was always the same, the oldest girl on the block by two years! We also recv'd a colecovision one Christmas we were thrilled! Also one time I set up a "yard sale" in my bedroom so parents could shop...tee hee! But what ever you play with friends and family, your just making memories! I didn't know that then, but I do now!

When I was a kid, we usually play hide and seek, hopscotch, or Japanese garter. There's no electronic games yet. Now, my kids love to play games with the Wii, DS, or PSP. When we get together with the relatives, the kids always play games in the XBox.

When I was a kid we'd play Monopoly as a family and it scarred me for life, lol. I still refuse to play it as I have memories of what a terrible sport I was.

For us, it was playing cards. Family favourites were crib (yes, I was taught at a young age :) ) and 31. To this day, at family gatherings, the cards come out and everyone plays. I especially like that we play for quarters... sometimes I come home with a pocket full of change!

Mousetrap and Operation were my favorites : )

When I was growing up we didn't play games. My parents worked shift work. Mom worked in "processing" at the bank over nights and dad did cancer research during the days. With our upbringing we actually had to practice piano and study all the time. Don't worry, it wasn't sad times, we just didn't know and it's cultural. However, with MY kids now we love all sorts of family game times! Bingo, Blokus, Scrabble, and cards!

We only had one game!....Monopoly..........so that was it!

Life and CandyLand were definitely two of my favourite board games growing up but my sister and I also were very imaginative and creative. We had a dining room and living room in our childhood home and it was divided with two sliding doors. We would dress up and develop short plays, sing and dance and entertain our parents on many weekends, especially in the winter.

I'm glad that my 6 year old is balanced in her play - we make sure to divide up her time in front of the computer and time spent on video games, with creative play - drawing, painting, crafts and using imagination.

Thanks for the amazing contest! Good luck to all!

When I was a kid my favourite games to play were Monopoly and Boggle. I still enjoy both these games as an adult and look forward to when my children are old enough to play with me!

I think my favourite game was Monopoly because we set it up and continued to play it for days until someone was the declared winner. Then we would start another game!

Being 1 of 5 kids there was always someone to play with at any given time. Some of our favourites were Monopoly, Trouble, The Game of Life and when we were old enough my grandpa taught each of us to play Euchre.

My favourite game when i was growing up was Monopoly Loved that game so much..I would always make my family play it with me and i always won!!

we played many card games like rummy, cribbage etc, but the one we all loved to play was Kerplunk.

I used to sneak into my older brother's room to play Jumpman on his Commodor 64 computer! Vintage computer geek. Good times.

Our (meaning my three younger brothers and me) loved to play with the millions of wooden blocks we had. Building castles and destroying them or building endless rows of dominos to throw them over... plain fun without any technical gadgets

my favorite game growing up was monopoly. I also enjoyed playing games on our commodore 64.

Absolutely loved to play Sorry when I was a kid. It was a family game, yet understandable for kids, so we all could play.

our family loved to play the card games crib and rummy. Sometimes we would play for pennies. So easy to 'just play one more game'.

Monopoly was always my fave game

Growing up i was an only child, so i perfected JENGA! I would play by myself for hours and then with my mom and dad, they could never beat me! (although they may have just always let me win!) I now play with my daughters its one of their fav games now to!

Growing up, we didn't have many games by we did have one called Careers. We played that one quite a bit! My sister and I played Crazy Eights quite a bit too- or Go Fish!

super mario bros for sure!

My fave game was Sorry!

My fave game was and still is Scrabble

I'm not eligible to win this prize, but I think Monopoly was always my favourite.

We loved playing TROUBLE!

My fave game growing up was Scrabble. Thanks for the chance! :)

My favorite game was Mouse Trap.

As a kid...Hide and Seek. A little older and the family used to Play Trivia Pursuit together...alot of fun with that one.

My favorite family game growing up, was 'I Spy". I remember playing on all our family trips. I think every marker on the 401 has special meaning to me now.

My favourite game was Monopoly.

We had a 'Let's Make a Deal' game that we loved. We also played RACK-O a lot.

Duck hunt was my favourite game

We loved Mouse Trap.

Operation was the best back then!

lots of card games...cribbage was the best!

plain old dominoes - we didn't have many games! or a lot of card games

I always liked monopoly.

I loved the Board Game of Chinese Checkers

I loved Scrabble

My family love MARIO. All of them>

when i was growing up my families favourite game was monopoly

My favorite game was hungry hungry hippo. I was also a big fan of the original nintendo.

Monopoly.

"Outside" was our favourite game. Walking, roleplaying, fishing, swimming, running, chasing... bliss.

My favorite game was cribbage which I played with my father and my grandfather

My sister and I used to have a great board game that was based on a Shopping Mall. We also used to play with Fashion Plates (remember those?) and paper dolls a lot. Now we each have 2 boys and there isn't a doll to be found anywhere. They sure would love an Xbox Kinect!

Bingo at the cottage with all our cousins. The tradition is still going strong thanks to my sister who gave our father a retro bingo set forChristmas a few years ago.

My favourite was Hungry Hungry Hippos, though we didn't have it at home. I had to go to my friend's to play. I also played a ton of Mario Cart and Super Mario Brothers with my dad when visiting him on the weekends.

We couldn't really afford games or toys so when i was in highschool i made some money and bought the Nintendo that came with Super Mario Bros. I was also able to later buy Super Mario Bros 3. I only had those 2 games but i loved em!! I wasn't very good at other games anyways.

When I was young I loved playing board games like monopoly, pay day etc, they were so much fun, especially since I was an only child, playing them meant that I had friends over and that was a great time for me.

You know we used to play hide and seek a lot......or was that just the adults way of keeping me quiet!?

When i was young we had huge games of Red Rover !!! Red rover Red Rover let Michelle come over. We had a hill in the back of our house so we'd run down the hill to break through the line. So much fun.

My favorite game as a child was Hungy Hippo's. The noise used to drive my poor Mum crazy!

My favorite video game was Super Mario on the regular [original] Nintendo and my favorite board game was Guess Who, Monopoly and I LOVED Mouse Hunt!!

Hide and seek! Oh we had fun!!

Toe jam and earl!

my favourite game growing up was cards.

The original Super Mario Bros. was my favorite game

Thats hard to choose one...two would be my top favs! One is Monopoly. My 3 siblings and I would set up the board start a game and it would run for days! We would just stop, then pick up later as we could - monopoly marathon!
The other tied game was playing rummy (cards) with my childhood bestfriend. Her dad was a fisherman and when he was due to come home from a long term trip we'd have a sleepover at hers - with no sleeping! We'd stay up all night wating for him, playing cards, eating junk food and having the best, exhauxting time 2 pre teen girls can have.

Monopoly. We still play sometimes when we get together.

Holly Hobbie Wishing Well game. My sisters and I played that forever. And Monopoly, and Life, and Scrabble, lots and lots of Scrabble....

I loved Risk, and still play it to this day.

When I was a Little Guy "back in the days" (I remember my parents saying that exact phrase) my parents bought our 1st Atari Console which included Pac-Man....I don't remember going to school but i sure remember playing Pac-Man for Many many hours with my parents...I still Love that game!!!! Don't have a XBox would like to own one of those

When I was young we played alot of board games such as trouble, monopoly.

We loved playing Battleship. My dad and sister vs mom and me. so much fun!

I loved to play Monopoly with my family. I was often the winner !

I loved playing the original Nintendo games and I still do! I unfortunately cannot afford the XBOX nor the new Playstation for my kids, as I am a full-time university student and my husband is the sole financial provider for of us. I thank the lord that I have family who do have these game consoles for the kids to play (in particularly, my son; because he is the only one of age who can actually play).

When I was a kid, Milton Bradley board games were what we did as a family. After our big Sunday night dinner, we would sit around the table playing Monoply, MouseTrap, Operation. We built hours of memories this way and now XBox will be doing the same with the Kinect system. It's a family time activity for the whole family.

One of my favourite games was a commedore 64 game called Fast Food. The food scrolled up and down and you had to make a meal. My kids would think it is soooooo lame....oh if I only had it!!

Duck Hunt, it was one of our only games and it was a blast!

Our favorite game growing up was Hungry Hippos. My brother, sister and I would play that game day and night. I don't know how my parents survived having that game in our house. It was SO loud. Still to this day, I have no idea how my mother allowed such a game to enter our house. My mom's big on "pay-back", so maybe I should "shake" the gifts under her tree to see if our family will be given Hungry Hippos this year. Yah................Merry Christmas to us!!!!

I loved the game PakMan. Played it for hours!!

We would play board games for hours - Monopoly, Payday, Life are the ones that come to mind but I know there were others.

When I was a kid the first 3 Mario games I played a lot of. Original Need For Speeds as well.

We loved to play scrabble and twister. When I got older, I played Scrabble with my Dad every night for months and then we would switch to chess and play that every night for months.

We loved Parker Brothers " Masterpiece" as well as cribbage. I recently found a few Masterpiece games at thrift stores and I introduced them to the students in my classroom. They love the game and now all the parents are thanking me since their children want it for Christmas and it's difficult to find! I also taught them cribbage and they love that too. These have also been favourites of my own children at home. This proves that good games never die and are worth revisiting.

my favourite game as a kid was probably Atari 2600 I remember getting it for Christmas and my older brothers would come in my room to play it(even if I was sleeping) my fave game at the time was pacman!Unfortunately the game broke on the 64 day, and the guarentee was only 60 days so that was the end of my gaming systems till I got much older!lol!

The favourite game was Monopoly

Growing up our favourite board game to play was Monopoly. It was always entertaining and it allowed our family quality time together.

My favourite nintendo game growing up was the Super Mario Bros

My favorite game growing up was Tetris for my Gameboy. . .I still have it and my kids get a kick out of playing a "vintage" game! lol

Wow.....now this brings back some fantatic memories!! I miss the big Christmass's we shared as a family now that I'm older, moved away and have 4 boys of my own. We use to play Bean Bag Tic Tac Toe, it's wasn't electronic but it sure made us all laugh and have a great time!! Always brought us closer together every year!! My dad and I would always square off and he would prevail!! Wish I could turn the clock back and have these days again.

my favoret game was mario i wish xbox 360 had it its a reall awsome game

when i was a kid my favourite games were outside games fishing play tag hide and seek
trivia pursuit were played alot too

My favourite game was nintendo i loved playing super mario bros it was a good game and i loved playing it sometimes it could be difficult but i always seem to get through the levels wish they made new games for the system thou

We used to love hide and seek, Kick the can and baseball. Thanks for the chance to win!

When I was younger we had a Sega Genesis, and was able to play games for 1hr after our homework was done. My favorite game is a tie between 2. Either Sonic 3 (had my favorite bonus levels), or the 7up game!! It was a game where you were the red dot from the 7up bottle and you went through various levels trying to get as many red dots as possible. I wish I still had my genesis!!

My Favorite games were spotlight and hide and seek, playing guns with the boys was fun too :p

When i was a kid, my family and I loved to play super mario bros from nintendo and pac man. My parents and sisters would play it all the time. We all had so much fun:)

My favorite games growing up was, skipping rope, hops-cotch, A game called pogs! I like to draw on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk, of course can't for get tag and hide and go seek. These we all my favorite games, and i play a couple of these with my children now, and theres many more i loved from my childhood that i can still play today because i have 3 children all toddlers.

I remember getting Atari for Christmas when they first came out. They were very hard to get but my mom found us one... I used to love Frogger and Frostbite.

When I was younger I loved to play with other children in my neighbourhood. we would play war , tags an many more as I grew up though I did fall in love with pac man.....An so the video games at home began...lol

I loved sorry when i was a kid..... trouble, clue, chinese checkers, connect four... too many to list!!! to me it seems like kids really arnt into board games anymore....sad really. Oh and i LOVED LOVED monopoly!!!

My favorite game was space invaders and astroids lol wow that was a long time ago. I would play the arcade games and then i got an Atari system I loved it

My favourite game growing up was mousetrap and monopoly!

My favorite game growing up was Zelda.

Scrabble. Very educational and challenging.

When I was younger, wow. I always loved jumping rope and hopscotch!! I remember loving Atari though! And when Nintendo came out with Duck hunt, LOVED it!!

I love to play old school pac-man on my Atari best game ever!!

we loved to play UNO,Battleship,and Monopoly!

We were a large family (well, larger than most of my friends) - with family always stopping by. There was my older brother and sister, and my younger brother, and a cousin or two thrown in for fun. During really cold winter days, or when the rain was too much to go out to play, we would invent games to play. These games usually included a lot of running around our small furnished living room, with a fair amount of jumping on the furniture! These games also had to be played when mom was out =) My personal favourite was Pirates. One person was Captain and shouted out directions - "Jump to Port" or "Hard to Starboard". Last person to the designated area was "out". The last one to be playing became the next captain. It was great fun, exercise and usually ended with us all in a mess in the middle.

we use to always play uno or monopoly. It was always great fun!

When I was a kid we loved to play sports outside like hockey in the winter, baseball in the summer.

So many games I enjoyed as a kid. I remember going down to the corner store when they had video games inside, and I would play Wonder Boy for hours. I almost beat it. I tried and tried. Then the store closed. Then we got a Sega Genesis system. Sonic was the game to beat. I successfully beat Sonic 1 and 2. What a great feeling that is lol. I would love to be able to creat some memories like those with my own kids. And to watch thir faces as they open an Xbox WITH Kinect would be so incredible!!!

When I was a kid my favorite game was scrabble.

When I was a kid our families fav video game to play was Atari's Donkey Kong. I remember playing with my mom (she was the best at the game), my dad and both my older brothers. It was our Saturday night ritual..lol.

Mouse Trap and Monopoly were my favorite games growing up, raised my kids on them both and still play both when the kids are home and we can all get together:)

when i was a kid i loved to play tiddlywinks and hungry hungry hippos

My fav game when I was young was Roger Rabbit on the original Nintendo...although to this day I get to the end but can't finish it...even with the tutorial...must be a glitch or something...could play this game over and over and over again!

I loved board games. Monopoly, clue, masterpiece, the list goes on...

Oh forgot Simon!! My mother STILL has it at her house and it still works!!!

I used love board games like Clue... I think my favorite video game back in the day would have to be space invaders lol

During my childhood, my siblings and I would often play the board game called Snakes and Ladders. It would keep us entertained for hours.

I grew up loving Mario games all of them and sometimes chess and domino with my family

I use to love to play chinese checkers

Love and still do playing Monopoly

My favourite was Super Mario Bros 3. I still play it now, only on my DS :)

My favorite game to play as a youngster was hopscotch.

My favorite game growing up was playing rummy with my Grandma, she started me on it when I was aroud 7 or 8!!!! Miss those days and her!!!

My favourite game as a kid was playing hide and go seek in the dark with my cousins and friends. Good times!

Full contact monopoly!!! It was hilarious, my grandma started it. If you left the table to get a drink, go to the washroom or any other reason, it was advisable to take your money & property deeds with you, if not - - - THEY WERE GONE!!! Someone would steal them & you never got them back.
I can't wait for my Missy to be big enough for us to play! It was a tradition at any family holiday.

As a kid of 4, we got Atari to share for Christmas with pac-man & frogger. I loved frogger...still one of the best old school game out there.

We use to play hide & seek and there were a lot of places to hide...we would play all day...any excuse to spend the entire day outside...whatever happened to that???
There was also rainy day games of Life and Monopoly that usually ended up an all day venture too.

Fav game growing up? The board game Life. And playing Teacher with siblings.

My favorite game growing up was Monopoly.

When I was a kid, I played Snakes 'n' Ladders with my Dad, and Monopoly and Life with my grandmother. One particular game of Life still sticks in my memory. I landed on every "baby block" and ended up with too many pegs to fit in the little car. It was quite entertaining picking all my "kids" up off the road every time I had to move my car :)

We used to play pictionary as a family - that was my favorite - but my brother hated it. My brother and I loved to play super mario together and the simpson game for snes.

I remember having an Atari system and my brothers (who are much older) were always forced to play with me. It drove them crazy because I had no idea how to play the games and whenever we would play hockey together I would whine to my parents that my brothers never let me win. As a family we loved playing card games and now it's nice to watch my sons play those same card games with my parents

My favourite childhood game was Mousetrap.

I loved playing Super Mario bros on the original Nintendo with my siblings.

My favorite growing up was a Canadian game called Poleconomy. We spent a lot of fun family time with that game.

My family's favourite game was Snakes & Ladders.

My favourite childhood game to play as a family was Guess Who?!

I'm going real far back when I had a Coleco Vision system.... I loved playing Donkey Kong and Space Invaders.

Our family were all card players, and from the time we could count our dad taught us to play crib. We would spend hours challenging each other and still do when we get together! As time went on and electronic devices were being invented (dating myself) we were fascinated with the Pong game!!! We've come a long way baby!

My favourite game was Monopoly. My sister and I played this for hours, sometimes days.

My favorite game was Frogger when I was little.

My favorite were Original Super Mario Brothers and Hockey on original Ninetedo!

My favorite was operation. This year my middle daughter is getting it for christmas.

Wow...growing up - playing games...besides backyard baseball or snow forts....inside hmmmm - I would have to go with either twister or risk. We'd play for hours and hours and of course we can't forget the grudge matches - I still brag about being unbeaten in Risk. When my siblings and I get together we still challenge each other to some sort of game or another...so I'd love to start a new tradition - Wanna play Kinects - bet I can beatcha...I know we'll laugh!! Happy Holidays!

Well as a child my mom didnt play many games with me but once and a while when i got her to play it was almost always snakes and ladders or the classic monopoly. My mom hated monopoly as she said it took forever to play. I also enjoyed battle ship and nintendo games which was my first system i love the classic mario and duck hunt. oh what i would give for kinnect for xbox

Any board game especially Game of Life

I love playing board games... my favorite being Monopoly or Risky Business!

Loved my Sunshine family and barbies. I wallpapered an old bookshelf to make a doll house for them and could play for hours with them all.

When I was younger, I remember running home after school to play Alice and Wonderland and Ghost Busters on our Commodor 64
I show my kids picture's of it just to remind them how lucky we are to have what we have now :)

My favorite game was CANDYLAND!

When I was growing up, my favorite game was Monopoly. I grew up when video games were just becoming a must have for children. Our parents were unable to afford them, so we were board gamers. Monopoly is, and most likely always will be my favorite game. My brother and I pretty much dominated the board against our two sisters. He and I were very competitive against each other. In other games to like checkers, and when we finally got a Playstation, we were the lead competitors in Tekken. But when it comes down to it, we would be laughing ecstatically at each other in Monopoly because we were both determined to win and it was the best times. I'm tearing up with laughter right now. Think I'm going to give him a call and invite him over for one of those games.

The first video game I remember was Duck Hunt. Usually though we played cards and my favorite was Rook.

barbies and boggle. Also used to make obstacle courses outside with my brother.

I remember playing Monopoly a lot when I was a kid, so it must have been a family favorite.

My favourite game growing up was playing Pac-Man and trying my best to get a perfect score.

twister was my fav!!!

We had Hungry, Hungry Hippo!

Mouse trap, Monopoly, Mario Brothers, Tetris, Kick the Can, Hide and Seek were among the top ones :)

My favourite game growing up was called Feely Meely. My friend had the game and it was a box that had holes in it. You had to stick your hands in the holes and feel various items then guess what they were. For some strange reason, I thought that it was fun

FTW, Sega Dreamcast, Crazy Taxi was a gooder...

We loved to play things like snakes and ladders or card games.

My favorite game when I was a young child was PAYDAY ! such a fun game, great way to learn the value of a dollar.

We loved to play Trivial Pursuit and I remember us all playing cribbage up at the cottage too.

This game might be off the beaten track, but my 4 siblings and I would sit on the Peace River ferry landing dock and watch for rising fish. When one would spot it, they would have to name the species it was then say WHY they thought it was that speicies due to its feeding habits (ie - sipping flies off surface instead of doing a finning motion) With 5 species to pick from and alot of fish moving in that river, it really taught us alot about fish behavior as kids:)

my nephew currently plays the old version xbox, imagine him playing the newer xbox 360 with kinect lol.

I had a Nintendo game console as a kid, lots of fun since I lived on a farm and only had 3 tv channels to watch. Had alot of outside chores to do but managed to sneak in time to play Nintendo. I have three boys and they have wanted, asked, begged for an XBOX for 3 years now... so If I were to win it, then I would look at it like it was "meant to be"..lol.

My first fond memory of playing games with my parents is a traditional korean game played much like pictionary except the person must draw as he/she was blindfolded. So many good memories from playing it for hours with my parents. It was even more fun when all of our other families came to play.

I didn't have any games when I was a child! (: Would of probably been nice though!

All of the neighbourhood kids would come outside and play hide and seek.

When I was a kid my family enjoyed playing Super Pong! Kind of pales in comparison to today's video games. :)

When i was a kid we use to play the old xbox or atari as a family, or we would play games like uno, monopoly and etc which i loved. I make sure my family has a game night once a week and this would make a great addition to game night.

I think I was about 14 when we were given a second hand Atari system. The game that I loved to play was Ms.PacMan. My favourite board game to play was Monopoly. Loved that it took hours to play and the whole family got involved so it became "game night", not just "game hour"!

Pre-Electronic card games were my favorite. The Beckers older and good looking sons were after school babysitters and keen card players. It was Go Fish or War. I think I just loved the Becker Boy's glamour and Mrs. Becker's cookies.

My family and I liked to play the game of Life!

I really enjoyed my spyrograph ... lol. Seriously. My brother and I played Monopoly. When the technology advanced, it was Asteroids and Sword of Fargoal. Good times.

My favourite boad game was Monopoly and I could play in for hours with the cousins. Another favourite was gin rummy. All you needed was a deck of cards and you could have fun for hours. I think those games were more sociable than the games of today played on computer screens.

Monopoly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Being the parent of two boys who are hockey crazy, the constant game through the years was the latest NHL video game from EA. Every year they had to have the new version and would play it and play it. I would play them but would get smoked of course which was always good for a laugh.

We used to play Risk all weekend long marathons. It was incredible we had a standing Friday night Risk game for over a year and I would always host. Terrific gaming friendships!

My fave board game as a young child was guess who!

When I was a child I loved playing Duck Hunt with my dad and Pac-man was also a favorite. Now I really enjoy playing monopoly and Guess Who with my boy!

When I was a kid, I loved Ms. Pac-Man. I used to go to the rec centre and instead of swimming or playing basketball, I would spend all my time in the games room playing Ms. Pac-Man!

Growing up, my fave game to play was Super Mario 3 on nintendo! I was addicted!!

Rockem sockem robots

Definitely monopoly!

As a child my favourite game was definately Hide and Seek!

settlers of catan!! still is

My sister's and I loved playing charades, but we made it very elaborate with lots of costumes and props. All of us are still very dramatic!

We used to play a lot of board games such as Monopoly but we were a pretty active family and loved to play sports such as tennis.

Mouse Trap

We always loved to play the original Donkey Kong game on Nintendo. Some favourite board games were Operation, Boggle, and Yahtzee.

Monopoly and Mrs Pac-man!

It's so hard to pick one! Outdoor was kick the can...we always played that Lol!! On the topic of video games though I loved Sim City!! =)

My favourite game growing up as a child was tic-tac-toe as I could play it for hours on end.

I loved playing super mario bros as kid, was so fun

My favourite game was Uno (the card game). :o)

Scrabble!

My family liked to play snakes and ladders.

Monopoly!

hide and go seek with all the kids in the neighbourhood

We played alot of board games like Monopoly and Life

I would have to say the game of Life was one of my favourites along with Risk & Mousetrap

I was the oldest of 6 so there was almost always someone to play with and for the younger ones, I looked after them and read to them. Us older ones played school, house, Monopoly, Sorry, Trouble things like that. My Mom tried to teach me Crib when I was too young so she had someone to play with; it took me until I met my future husband to learn :)

We would usually play cards. The older folks at the main table, and us little ones had our own game going on the kids furniture. A lot of noise and laughter for hours on end. Good memories.

My family's favourite game was monopoly. It usually went on for hours and hours!

Evelyn

I love playing sorry and trouble with my grand children

Lego!

My brother and I would battleship, but I loved playing battletops or yatzee

We used to play monopoly together as a family. It was such fun!!

My fav game was Monopoly .. the family would start on Friday nights and it would run until Sunday night. It was a riot.. :-)

My favourite game was Clue. I loved the mystery of it.

We used to play Snakes and Ladders and Monopoly. I think Monopoly was the fav, as we used to play for hours.

we played alot of the universe 2000 trivia game. not overally popular but we loved it.

My favorite family game to play growing up was definately Clue! Loved to play this one!

clue

I loved playing Clue- and Scrabble and now we play Banana grams with our kids. Thanks

One of our definite favourites was Rumoli, we used to run to my dad's change jar and raid it, then play for hours.

The game that stands out the most from my childhood is Uno. I remember the lonnnnngg train ride to my grandparents with endless rounds of Uno.

Our family loved to play Checkers and I Spy! I play I spy now with my children and plan on teaching them checkers soon!

PacMan

our favorite game of all time is still hide and seek. We could play it anywhere and with anyone, even the little little kids.

I loved playing pong growing up! We somehow acquired a bar game (it was as big as a table and we kept it in the hallway) and my sisters and I would play pong for hours!

I loved playing the Titanic board game. I was too young at the time to realize it was slightly morbid. The object of the game was to get all your passengers off before it sank!

When I was a kid, my sister and I used to play on our Commodore 64 computer. We were so excited when our parents bought that computer. We used to play this game that would go on for hours...I don't remember the name. But you were an egyptian running towards a pyramid illing anything in your path..lol It seemed like it took forever to get to that pyramid. I remember the game only having 2 colors even. It was yellow and orange..lol
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When we were little on car rides Mom use to play I spy with my little eye with us, And at home Tag or Hiden and seek.. But when my Dad was home from work we would take turns playing Checkers and that was a load of fun, He never let us win so when we started beating we knew we had finally mastered checkers. Doesnt sound like much but it helped us with thinking things out and planiing.

I loved board games and "Guess Who" was a favourite!

We used to play Monopoly all the time, and sometimes Risk.

I had many favourite games as a child and none of them involved a computer...;0) Yes I am surely getting old....I loved playing hide and seek, and I spy as I loved being outside.

Inside, I played checkers, crazy eights with cards of course, monopoly very often and battleship with my sister. We used to have a family game night every Saturday complete with chips, dip, cheesies, popcorn and pop. We were never allowed to eat that sort of thing any other day except Saturday so we had a great old time. Ah, reminiscing-it almost brings a tear to my eye.

I remember playing hide and seek in the dark in our unfinished basement. The best!

MAX AND RUBY fans in this household.

My brother always had gaming systems so whenever he wasn't home or not playing with his Nintendo, I used to always go in and play Super Mario, all those games will always be on my fav list!

LOVE Mousetrap!

My family's favourite game was Monopoly. It amused all of us for hours.

My brothers and I used to play games with our grandmother every day after school. We had many favourites but my favourite was called Rack-O. I loved that game and still do!! Every time my family plays it I miss my grandmother... :)

My sisters and I used to play an old marble game called Cross Over the Bridge. We still have it, so now MY daughters play it.

Growing up with an older brother, our favourite game was definitely Crossbows & Catapults! We also figured out a way to play My Little Pony and GI Joe together....although most times it ended with my ponies being taken hostage by the 'Joes'!!!

Growing up we loved to play Payday and Life. Remember hours stretched out on the floor with sister, or friends working our way around the board giggling in Life at one having 9 children trailing behind the car while others only had one or none. Was a great way to spend the afternoon. Hoping to incorporate some of these into our family game nights!

Not sure what my favorite was, but I remember playing Snakes and Ladders.

Loved KerPlunk!

Well, my favourite game when I was a kid has got to be Super Mario Bros., hands down! Even my mom (god bless her) would play with me and I got to tell you I think she was more hooked then I was. The funniest part was she would jump around with the controller as if it would make Mario or Luigi do the same thing......lol.

My favorite family game growing up had to me Monopoly we would play it for days and days, but also careers and scrabble too, we had a game called pong that was one of the first video game things, we all fought over it lol good luck to all , and i tweeted it too,

Lots of favourites - from Scrabble, Battleship and Checkers to Barbie and when it was that exciting first year of playing Pac-Man on video - that was #1 for me!

When I was a child, I taught my dad who didn't speak English at the time how to play Monopoly. We played it over and over. I still love board games!

I would get up Sunday mornings in the winter and play cards with my Dad - rummy, whist, Crazy 8's and cribbage.

As a child I loved to role play so was often the Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, etc lol. Otherwise I enjoyed games that took some strategy like Mastermind, or card games like crib, rummy etc

Growing up with an older brother, our favourite game to play was Crossbows & Catapults. We also play 'GI Joe' meets "My Little Pony", however it almost always ended with my ponies being captured by the 'Joes'!

My favourite outside game was JUMPSIES. It was with elastic bands tied together. I could do it for hours. Inside game was when we got PACMAN and it was like a miniture arcade that could fit on your lap. Wow, where did the good ole days go

When I was a growing up, I could play Pac Man for hours!! :~}

Starting from when the snow hit the ground, my Mom and Dad would dig out the old table top hockey game (the ones with the metal men). We'd have hours of fun playing tournaments.

I think my favouritre childhood game was Minute's Limit. You write down all the letters of the alphabet (leave out Q and X if you're playing with younger children), cut them up and put them in a hat. Then everyone writes down some agreed-upon categories like Cities, First Names, Foods, Animals, etc. Pull a letter out of the hat and everyone has one minute to think of something in each category that starts with that letter. It's awesome!

When I was a child I remember one christmas going absolutely wild when my sister and I received the original old school Nintendo game system. My favourite video game was the original mario bros 1, 2, & 3. How fun! Thanks!

My favourite game was the firsr Zelda. It was the best game ever.

zelda when we got into tech era at our house hold but before hide and seek and pretend playing lol

Duck Hunt was a favourite of mine as well!

We always had a deck or two of cards in the house when I was growing up. My father was a big fan of euchre and cribbage, both games my siblings and I learned to play at an early age. Now when my family gets together the cards are always being dealt.

We used to play Pictionary at family dinners when I was a kid. I always rocked that game with my mad drawing skills and imagination LOL

My brothers and I loved playing Risk.

When I was a child we would play monopoly for hours on end. Could be because we didn't even have a t.v. back them. Different times.

My favorite game when I was younger was Monopoly, then as a teen we had Scrabble nights.

Now we love boards games like Bananagrams, and Risk.

My favourite game as a child was Super Mario 2 for the Nintendo. My grandfather and I would take turns playing it.

We loved playing Jump Man on the Commodor 64 and for board games we loved to play Monopoly!

My favorite game was sonic the hedgehog but the reason for it being my favorite was because it was the only game my brother and I would play together. His games were always more advanced than I was :)

My favorite game growing up was playing Cribbage with my parents and skipping rope with my friends. As for board games LOVED the Game of LIfe

Oh man, when I was a child, my favourite game that my sisters and I would play would play is house, although we used to call it "house house". We would dress up, and pretend to be neighbours, we would talk about items of food on sale at local store. And the funniest moment ever is, when we would make our youngest sister our family pet....hahahaha she always got stuck being the family dog!! (My sisters and I are horrible), but we look back at those days and laugh hysterically, including my youngest sister.

P.S. Just in case, you're wondering I had 4 sisters!

Growing up I loved playing monopoly and scrabble and battleship.

Growing up, we used to have epic, hours long game of Monopoly! (The old school board game version!)

We had an atari and I loved playing a game called frostbite! Oh the memories! :)

My Favourite game growing up was Super MArio Brothers 3. Wow games have changed from those days!!

Hungry Hungry Hippos! my daughter is 'hungry' for the Xbox KINECT!!!!

Card games! We used to play all kinds of rummy with my Grandma, and no big family gathering was complete without a huge elimination game of 31! After the first Nintendo system came out, Cobra Triangle was big in our house too.

our favorite family game was CLUE! we enjoyed trying to figure who did what to whom! gave us ours of family fun around our dining room table!

I loved Scrabble! I always enjoyed playing with words, and I think I really enhanced my vocabulary that way. I still enjoy this game.

My favourite childhood game was IQ200 trivia board game. My sister and I spent countless hours playing the game together and still have a little chuckle every time we are reminded of one of the questions or answers from that time period.

I'll never forget the day my older brother brought home the 2600 from Atari! It was the first time I had ever played a video game, and I LOVED IT!! Asteroids was my favorite right from the beginning!

My brother and I use to play Scrabble and Monopoly all the time - great memories!
My kids are enjoying Candyland these days!

I was an only child and unfortunately my parents really didn't play that many games with me. The only game I remember playing with them and enjoying was Monopoly.

Used to love playing Road Hockey

HOW COULD IT BE ANYTHING BUT THE ONE AND ONLY MARIOS BROS!!!! AND DUCK HUNT OF COURSE~

I was crazy over Super Mario Bros., Kirby and yoshi.

There wasn't that many games in my day and age but I think everyones's favorite was Monopoly . Then when I was about 19 or 20 the first atari console you could buy came out and I bought it, the first video game was pac man, my favorite and still is was space invaders and the best version of the game could only be played on the machines in lounges! Seems like yesterday!

My favorite game as a child was Clue. I enjoyed playing with my Barbies and Strawberry Shortcake. I also had an atari and would play space invaders for hours. But mostly I would have to say we played outside for the most part and would play games like tag and hide and seek. Lots of memories with the neighbor hood kids.

We played lots of board games as a family - Scrabble and Monopoly were the favorites, but we also had the classics like Mousetrap, Cluedo, Trouble, Guess Who...

My favourite childhood game was good old-fashioned CHECKERS with my Dad! He was the master and I learned a ton from him! With my older brothers, our game was RISK -- I loved kicking their butts and conquering the world! (insert evil laughter here! haha) I have 2 boys of my own now and it's time we entered the world of XBOX 360 -- I can see us having an absolute BLAST playing it together! Thank you so much for the chance to win one! :o) Merry Christmas!

Monopoly was the family game of choice. We'd played into the wee hours of the morning.

When I was a kid we did a lot of making up our own games, we loved to "paint the fence" with water and old brushes, or we'd pretend to play "frogger" by running between the swings on the playground. As I got older we'd play Boggle or Monopoly, and went through a stage where we played a lot of chess. When we got an "Odyssey 2" our favorite game was Pickaxe Pete. Eventually we got a Commodore 64, we loved a Mickey Mouse game even if loading each stage took about 5 minutes, lol. Played a lot of Wolfenstein on the old pc as a teenager :) and now we love to get together to play Rock Band at a friends house!

Was hoping to get the family an Xbox for Christmas this year, but had a regular client cancel for the whole month and had to use the money to pay bills instead :p Ah well, such is life... a chance to win one is AWESOME!!!

My favourite game growing up was Donkey Kong. I played it alot

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I loved playing The Legend of Zelda on Nintendo. But my favourite board game was probably a tie between Scrabble and Trival Pursuit!

Wow...this really brought back memories! We used to play Monopoly and Tri-Ominos growing up. The Game of Life was another big one and Yahtzee! Now when we visit family over the holidays, our favourites are One-Eyed Jacks and Rummoli. If there is a big group, then out comes Head Banz, Pictionary, Guesstures and Balderdash. This year I think we're going to try out Cranium to include my children in the game fun! I also remember playing my friend's Atari - that was so cool way back when. I remember my sister getting the Nintendo NES system for Christmas one year - it was so advanced back then, lol. Super Mario was the best! Now we have a Wii and Mario is one of our favourites...with Crash Bandicoot running a close second!
Thanks UrbanMoms and my fellow UrbanMom members for bringing back some wonderful memories with this contest and all your comments!

We didn't have a family fun game night as my parents were always out and I was left with babysitters lol. So now that I have 3 amazing kids we play shoots and ladder a lot. It helps with math and it's fun to watch there faces when the land on a ladder and they know there kicking your tail.

We used to play alot of card games like Rummy and so on. But one game that i remember was a board game called Aggravation which we played alot and i like playing. Not to sure if it is still around. Now to go do a search and see if it is. :)

When we were kids, we played Monopoly or Bingo, great fun!

We played a lot of card games and had board (bored?) games like Monopoly, Clue etc but one year Santa brought me a Nintendo! We played a lot of Super Mario Bros and Zelda...I can remember staying up until 2am with my dad playing the first Zelda game! So much fun! In university my roommates had an N64 console but I have never owned anything but the original Nintendo. Time for an upgrade? I think so!

I loved playing Monopoly. I was always the banker, because I liked to control the money :)

I used to love playing Atari and still do, however lately it is only pulled out when the kids get tired of playing the original Xbox

When I was growing up our favorite family game to play was Go fish

We use to play rummolli and clue as a way to keep everyone occupied.

Monopoly for hours of fun

Either Monopoly or Hide & Go Seek.

Chinese checkers! My mom used to let us stay up late to play :)

when i was a kid we played all kinds of board games as while as we had the atari my favorite game for it was miner 49er and then we got the nintendo and i loved to play barbie and super mario as while

When I was growing up, the game we liked to play with the whole family was Rummoli. Later, when I was older, it was Pictionary. These were 2 games that we played with the entire extended family as well. Often with 25 to 30 people at a family gathering. We even played lawn dart tournaments for trophies and everything(kids and adults). :)

pictionary

My family has always been big on playing card games and dice games. I know that I could play crib by the time I was 5. I was pretty good at it too lol. Aside from that we played canasta and yahtzee alot

My favorite video game to play as a kid was Frogger on my old coleco vision (man am I dating myself there haha!). As a family though we were big on Gin Rummy, some of my best memories are sitting around a gas lamp while camping playing Rummy with the family. :)

My favourite childhood game was operation. I had to go the neighbours to play it.

My favorite games were card games. I spent a lot of time with my Grandparents and would play cards and cribbage with them. I also spent so much time playing monopoly with various Aunts and cousins, that I detest that game to this day. My kids only get to play it on the computer, or with their friends.

My fav video games were popcorn on atari and Dr. Mario on nintendo!! My fav board game was the game of life!!

Growing up my family played Yahtzee alot. This was one game even my mom and dad got into. Oh, the memories.

When I was a young girl, scrabble was played often. When my daughter was small, I set aside an hour every evening to play a board game. She loved scrabble too. My mum bought her the junior addition. We also had Sorry. These are great educational games and at the same time a perfect way to spend quality time together.

When I was younger, I loved playing with lite brite. I still do. I also liked to play with my dolls and play house. My daughter also really loves to play house. It is so great seeing her use her imagination and to include her brother.

When I was growing up, we loved to play Monopoly and Mario Bros. on the Nintendo.

When I was little my mother made me play scrabble with her all the time. I enjoyed the time together and it instilled in me a passion for reading. My personal favorite was Parcheesi. It belonged to my Aunt so going to visit her was extra special.

my favorite games growing up with playing nintendo with the super mario game! other games that were fun was chase, hockey but most of all guess who and battle ship toped it off!!

We used to play LIFE and Trivia Pursuit. If we played Trivia, you had to hope you were on Dad's team!

When I was growing up, we loved to play Monopoly. The best part was, I always win hehe.

My family and I used to play classic Monopoly! Loved those nights when we would have fun playing together. Great memories!! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway. Happy Holidays to you and your family!

My favourite game when I was growing up a long time ago was Pac-Man! I played it in the local pool hall for hours and hours!

Favourite game of all time was Monopoly - would play it for hours and hours, have games which continued day after day, would even play by myself. Loved it!

When I was growing up with my 5 brothers and 5 sisters, we loved playing Rummoli and Crokinole.

Growing up with 3 sisters and 1 brother we loved playing snakes and ladders. Is that game still around?

We love to play LIFE as a family. Sometimes just the adults played. Sometimes the adults and kids played together.

When I was growing up I loved to play pacman

We loved playing board games. My favourite game was MONOPOLY. I played with my cousins and siblings and we enjoyed a lot of good times together.

Growing up we played mostly cards but Monopoly was also up there.

im sure we all played atari's pong game!! i was around 8 when we first got it...it didnt take this smart kid very long to master it!! so much that i could get the paddles just so and keep that ball bouncing back and forth all day untill i came home from school to start again....now, that was fun...love that game!!

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money to buy board games or electronic games. So, we would play cards like 21, Crazy 8's, Fish, and rummy. Cards were an inexpensive game to entertain ourselves and our minds for hours on end without the high cost of electronic games and required no electricity. And the most important thing was that everyone can learn and play from my Grandmother, my parents and children.

When we were young we enjoyed playing board games like Trouble, Life, Snakes and Ladders. My favourite one was Clue.

Played yahtzee every Christmas with my cousin

I used to love playing Lemmings and Price of Persia on the Amiga and later on when we got a Nintendo I loved Super Mario Brothers!

We'd have riotous games of Yahtzee, with occasional bursts of cut-throat Monopoly.

My favorite game growing up was jacks.

Monoploy all the way...

We played alot of Monopoly, Yahtzee, and Masterpiece when I was a kid. With two brothers and two sisters there was always someone willing to play something!

My favourite game as a kid growing up depended on if the weather was nice or not. If it was - we were outside playing Hide and Go Seek. If the weather was lousy, we'd stay inside and play Monopoly, Don't Break the Ice or Kerplunk. Am I aging myself?

Our family played a lot of Snakes and Ladders.

I loved playing Monopoly!

This will date me - I liked to play Donkey Kong on Coleco!!

I loved Tetris - I couldn't get enough!

My brother got an Atari for Christmas and we would play that for hours - wow have games changed since that. We thought PacMan was awesome back then, one of the camp grounds we used to go to had the table top version when it first came out and we used to take turns playing that and shuttle cock. Memories eh!

my fave was Mouse Trap..

My favorite was to play cards. Any card game would do but it was always fun to gather the family around the table for a game of cards.

Chess!

My all time favourite game is Pac Man!

my brothers and sisters and I would play PayDay, Monopoly, Risk, and card games

Merlin!

As kids, we played Monoploly. During Christmas holidays we would play until bedtime, hide our money under our pillows and finish the game in the morning.

I remember many fave games as a kid including Payday, Clue, Monopoly, Sorry and Connect 4.

When I was a kid I used to like baking things with my easy bake oven. I remember getting in trouble once for trying to bake my crayons, but man they looked pretty cool and it was fun!

When I was a younger I use to love to play twister and snake & ladder. Come ti think of it I also liked to play trouble. i would love to dress up . The younger days was fun and no stress.

Omg!!! I was an arcade girl! Pac-man!!!

I am from Ontario and Euchre is very popular there and as i got older and into adulthood we played Euchre and loved it

My brother and I would always play "unicorns" with our friends. I don't know how I managed to convince him to pretend to be a unicorn, but I did!!

when i was a kid i used to have one of those coleco table top mini arcade games - it was ms pacman and boy did we love that game! me and my sister and my parents would spend hours playing, doing head to head games - all on this little teeny tiny game...but we loved it....then when we were done playing with that , i could use the coleco game(which looked exactly like a miniature version of an arcade game ) when i played barbies (barbie is hangin out at the arcade! lol)

My favourite game was Monopoly. I always picked to be the dog as my game marker. Great way to learn to count money.

My favourite game was (and is) Scrabble - so many words, so little time!

My favorite family game I loved back when I was growing up was Monopoly.

My favourite game as a child was the Game of Life and Clue.

Our favourite games was Monopoly!

I loved board games and played them for hours. My two favourites were Monopoly and Clue. We played one Monopoly game for hours and hours and sometimes into the next day.

We liked playing card games, like rummy.

My family's favourite game to place was Monopoly. My sister always won.

Our favourite family game by far was Jenga!! Then perhaps scrabble, and Splat. Does anyone remember that game?!!! It was so awesome.

My favourite game was Hungry, Hungry Hippos! I hope my son will love this game as much as I did.

Hungry Hippos!!!

Definitely Mario Bros.

When I was growing up we loved to play Trouble and Snakes n Ladders.

I used to enjoy playing "PayDay" with my friends. I also liked Scrabble and Monopoly too!

I loved to play Sorry! Now I play it with my son.

We used to play Monopoly every Saturday night with my Mom while my Dad watched Hockey Night in Canada.

I loved to play fish with my parents when I was a little kid. As I grew older, it became board games such as Hungry Hippos and Chutes and Ladders.

Growing up my family's favourite game to play was Monopoly.

The game that brought us all together at Christmas was a good, long game of Monopoly. Still is after 23 years. :)

Atari, I was hooked..they had this one game, a little vehicle that had to jump over the craters but duck under the jumping boulders, and the other game was the jungle boy who whacked alligators (if that's the case, it seems cruel now) with a machete like weapon and swung from vine to vine. Of course you were in control of the boy and car...good times! lol Thanx for taking me back! :D

When I was a kid, our family used to play monopoly together! Even now, we are having so much fun playing it!

scrabble was a favorite game to play as a family and still is

we never really played games...we were usually out riding motorbikes or working on the car. but my favorite game as a kind was gin rummy...i always won!

My favorite board game to play with my parents was Sorry.For video games you can't go wrong with the original Super Mario brothers,it will always be a classic!I'm glad they came out with a version of it for the Wii!

FROGGER all the way!

I loved the Game of life, but also loved frogger on the computer (a commodore 64)...my how things have changed over the years.

when I was growing up I loved the game of Clue.

When I was growing up, my favourite games were any that I could win! We would always get family games at Christmas and so we played alot of Monopoly, the Game of Life, Sorry, Trouble .... all sorts of board games.

Super Mario ftw!!

When I was a child I had an older cousin that was much like an older sister. She was 3 years older than me, so she always called the shots. Our favourite game to play together was Operation. To this day, I can still hear the buzz of my unsteady hand making contact with that forbidden metal edge, and the feeling of elation when I could access the wish bone with success. Those memories are precious! :)

We used to love playing with Lego - no fighting or tears
with Lego & everyone was always a winner since everyone could use their imagination to build something.

My favorite was kerplunk !

my favorite game to play as a child was (and still is) Monopoly! there is nothing like sitting as a family unit and playing a game that can go on for hours...man we would have a great time!

My Favorite game as a child was Nintendo Maro Brothers, duck hunt and so many more games we would play for hours. Board games we all would play snakes and ladders and UNIO they where so much fun and now i watch and play these games with my kids.

My favourite game growing up was with all of my dolls and my stuffed animals.

My favorite game was Monopoly. I could play it for hours. The great excitement was landing on Boardwalk!

We liked Monopoly and The Game of Life. And Pong. My Dad really really liked Pong. :)

I play Operation again and again and again. Since my sister is 5 years younger than me, it was the ideal game to play by myself. And I still have the original game that my daughter gets to play with now.

I used to have a cracker jack board game - that with a box of cracker jacks and my day was made. Don't think that game survived for very long. I think it was mid-70's or so. Shhh, don't tell of my age!

UNO! n snakes n ladder... infact UNO is still one of our favorite games to be played, when we all get together ;)