Home games you don't enjoy admitting you own

[MikeK]

I'm in the middle of cleaning my basement for an upcoming remodel.  One task I completed is move a 4-tier shelving system of games from the side of the basement to be remodeled into the utility side of the basement.  While doing some rearranging, I notice a copy of the Studs home game hidden away from public view.

Surely other home game collectors have at least one game they don't want friends, family, and others to know you own.

[TLEberle]

From the boardgamegeek.com entry for same; (so that's a thing I learned today, that BGG had an entry for it)

Based on the 1991-93 dating/game show, ideally played with three females and two males (all of whom have dated each other) and an emcee. The host asks the female players intimate questions about relationships away from the males, who must guess the responses later. The male who scores the most points after three rounds of play, kept track of by heart-shaped stickers, is declared the winner.

Studs had the honor of being a (very brief) target during Johnny Carson's final monologue, which he did in 1993 during a Bob Hope birthday celebration while discussing the evolution of television. In 2006, when Game Show Network aired its series of the 50 Greatest Game Shows, the inclusion of Studs as #47 (despite not showing any footage) led to flabbergasted game show fans calling it Freaking Studs and wondering how it could have possibly ranked higher than Blockbusters and Treasure Hunt; while far from the only shocker of that series, it's the only one relevant to this entry.

[clemon79]

I'd be curious to know who made that BGG entry, seeing as "flabbergasted game show fans" was basically me.

[TLEberle]

How about that deal--there is in fact a history for that section. The three most recent edits belong to Dan Benfield.

[clemon79]

How about that deal--there is in fact a history for that section. The three most recent edits belong to Dan Benfield.

My shocked face: :|

[chrisholland03]

That website's layout is a hot mess



(also...chaddyboy LOL)

[Fedya]

Somewhere in the basement we've got The People's Court home game.

[TLEberle]

That website's layout is a hot mess

It actually isn't if you're a member and know what to look for.

[clemon79]

That website's layout is a hot mess

It actually isn't if you're a member and know what to look for.

No, it still is, we've just learned to navigate it. The admins would be the first ones to tell you.

[The Ol' Guy]

Next to Studs on my shelf of shame would be The Moment Of Truth.

[TLEberle]

Next to Studs on my shelf of shame would be The Moment Of Truth.

That's Scruples, more or less, isn't it?

There's a couple of classes of board games that I won't play with certain people because it's already a powder keg, but I can't imagine any group of folks where questioning someone's integrity is going to end moderately well.

[Matt Ottinger]

I don't understand the question.

[TLEberle]

My point is that for as awful a game show The Moment of Truth was, why on earth would a board game make any sense from the perspective of the buyer/viewer?

(Unless you mean that there's no home games that you don't enjoy admitting your own.)

[Jimmy Owen]

Monopoly.  It was nothing like the TV show.

[The Ol' Guy]

I understood Mike's original question as something that could be posed to either someone who was fascinated by a show at the time and has changed their opinion on it now, or to the serious collector who goes "all in" for every home game available, just as a dedicated stamp collector wants as complete a collection as possible.  If one wants a complete collection for whatever satisfaction it gives (and I've been in that boat), then you hold your nose and buy a home game even if the game was lame, stupid, or even disgusting. I couldn't hack watching Fear Factor. I have the game. Gong Show? Lame board version, but have it. And have made some clunkers (Friend or Foe, Fast Draw), just because I could, and it made for a "completer" collection. Interesting. First question would be, why would you care about what anybody else thinks about what you bought? The other question would be, why would you buy something that is against your own standards? If one's identity (another lame home game) is wrapped up in what one owns, one risks being judged by what they own.  You just tell them, "I'm out for a complete collection, it's not my kind of show", and let the matter end. Or toss it.