[cerveza_fiesta]

I was home over the weekend and was looking through my old room. Found a couple of treasures in the closet there. "Hero Quest" and "Siege"

Hero Quest was this fun, extremely dumbed-down version of Dungeons and Dragons. The quintessential boiled-down dungeon crawl. You had a choice of 1-4 player characters (a Barbarian, mage, elf and dwarf) that proceed through corridors and rooms, following prescribed missions and collecting treasure, evading traps (which only the dwarf can detect of course), casting spells and murdering every little plastic figurine orc that stoood in your way. The game came with 20ish missions (without expansions) and featured cardboard & plastic props such as bookshelves, torture devices and satanic altars. It plays more or less like a game of DnD where the "game master" controls monsters and the players fight against them. Battles are decided with dice, hits remove "body points", healing potions restore them, blah blah. Cardboard pieces that laid flat on the board could enhance certain rooms with a special floor or block off corridors, and denote trap locations. Once you played the game through, there was nothing stopping you from creating a whole new campaign either, which we did. Me and my buddy growing up had an awesome time with the game. I liked it enough that I ended up painting every single one of the miniatures that came with the game and getting a couple of the expansions. The paintjobs suck really, but are half-decent for a 13 year-old I guess. We used to force our little sisters to play for hours on end (much to their dismay) cause 2 players wasn't quite as good.

Siege......ah siege. Best game you could ever give a young lad. It was pretty basic overall. You had a sieging army and a fort full of defenders. Both armies had spring powered cannons & catapults that could launch these 1/2" diameter red plastic balls. The goal was to shoot every single one of your opponent's men, which really is a genius idea for a game geared for boys. The best part was that the whole castle and sieging army's trenches were set up under elastic tension (with rubber bands) so that when you hit certain key spots on the walls, it would release the tension and send chunks of walls + the defenders on them flying up in the air. Me and my buddy (same as the hero quest buddy) each had a set and we used to have battles royale with each of us in a defending castle and with an attacking army of our own. They threw in some extra rules to try and make it "interesting" like giving the sieging army the ability to move men up the board and advance their weapons for closer shots, but really it was about shooting stuff. The extra rules were pretty superfluous.

Anyways, just though I'd share. Those games were ridiculously fun. I have played "hero quest" as an adult and it has definitely lost its charm. Perfect amount of complexity for a 13 year old but not enough for a mature board gamer. I guarantee I'd still love a game of siege every now and then though.

[Macros]

I think I've pqlyed siege, or something very similar many years ago, was fun iirc

[Abyss]

SIEGE was awesome, but probably should have required safety goggles.

- Abyss, content that the scar faded eventually.

[Tapper]

 Abyss, on 28 March 2011 - 01:27 PM, said:

SIEGE was awesome, but probably should have required safety goggles.

- Abyss, content that the scar faded eventually.

Lies. Every child risk losing an eye, ear and at the least two teeth a day.

[Hocknose]

I've played siege, was awesome. Me and a friend used to add extra men and stuff in to make it last longer!!!
I had a very similar game to siege but with ships instead. Each player had a load of battleships at either end of a huge playing board and you took turns attacking each other with submarines that fired little dics*. If you hit it in the right place the battleship would fall to pieces.

* Discs!!

This post has been edited by Hocknose: 28 March 2011 - 01:31 PM

[Slow Ben]

 Hocknose, on 28 March 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

I've played siege, was awesome. Me and a friend used to add extra men and stuff in to make it last longer!!!
I had a very similar game to siege but with ships instead. Each player had a load of battleships at either end of a huge playing board and you took turns attacking each other with submarines that fired little dics*. If you hit it in the right place the battleship would fall to pieces.

* Discs!!

Gah! What was that called?! It was awesome until the board got messed up and the dics wouldnt shoot right.



Also, Stratego. I can remember playing that damn game for hours with my brother. So good.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 28 March 2011 - 02:04 PM

[Sammehmander Rake]

Ah I remember playing Siege years and years ago. Or atleast trying to play and being way too young to understand.

We also had a submarine game, stratego sounds similar, but you would do something with co-ordinates and you had pins and slots, different number of slots in different submarines and battleships. And you would try to sink each others battleships.. Oh that's what it was called.. 'Battle Ships' xD
Fond memories.

[Hocknose]

 Slow Ben, on 28 March 2011 - 01:47 PM, said:

 Hocknose, on 28 March 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

I've played siege, was awesome. Me and a friend used to add extra men and stuff in to make it last longer!!!
I had a very similar game to siege but with ships instead. Each player had a load of battleships at either end of a huge playing board and you took turns attacking each other with submarines that fired little dics*. If you hit it in the right place the battleship would fall to pieces.

* Discs!!

Gah! What was that called?! It was awesome until the board got messed up and the dics wouldnt shoot right.



Stratego. I can remember playing that damn game for hours with my brother. So good.

Torpedo Run was the one I was thinking of...

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[cerveza_fiesta]

I'm glad at least a few others experienced Siege. What a fantastic game. Really anything that fires actual missiles in a childrens' game is going to be a surefire winner.

Kinda like "lawn darts"

I had a set of those. They were awesome and dangerous. Aweserous. I also have a friend who is part of the statistic that got the game banned in N. America.

[Hocknose]

 cerveza_fiesta, on 28 March 2011 - 02:01 PM, said:

I'm glad at least a few others experienced Siege. What a fantastic game. Really anything that fires actual missiles in a childrens' game is going to be a surefire winner.

Kinda like "lawn darts"

I had a set of those. They were awesome and dangerous. Aweserous. I also have a friend who is part of the statistic that got the game banned in N. America.

Did you ever play 'crossbows and catapults'? Think it was very similar to siege!!

[cerveza_fiesta]

nope. no xbows and catapults that I know of.

Do they even make missile-based kids toys anymore?

[Tapper]

Carrom

Despite the torn, bleeding fingers from flicking the puck, it was awesome.

[cerveza_fiesta]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crokinole

very similar to the world's number 2 game to play at your grandparents' cottage. Crokinole.

Number 1 is scrabble of course.

[ansible]

 Slow Ben, on 28 March 2011 - 01:47 PM, said:

 Hocknose, on 28 March 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

I've played siege, was awesome. Me and a friend used to add extra men and stuff in to make it last longer!!!
I had a very similar game to siege but with ships instead. Each player had a load of battleships at either end of a huge playing board and you took turns attacking each other with submarines that fired little dics*. If you hit it in the right place the battleship would fall to pieces.

* Discs!!

Gah! What was that called?! It was awesome until the board got messed up and the dics wouldnt shoot right.



Also, Stratego. I can remember playing that damn game for hours with my brother. So good.

Stratego! I used to play this with my dad. Awesome game.

[Arkmam]

Hero Quest is awesome, I remember one game we played where I was the barbarian. We started with all equipment locked up, and the elf got to the room first and took all our stuff and ran. So the other three players chased the elf through the corridors, my barbarian killing monsters left and right with his bare hands. We ended up catching the elf, buffing the bajeezus out of my barbarian with spells and potions, then wreaking bloody havoc on all monsters that was on our heels, finally emerging victorious,

God I miss that game.

This post has been edited by Arkmam: 28 March 2011 - 04:58 PM

[Shadow of Shadowthrone]

Oh, the memories! HeroQuest was my gateway into fantasy, both roleplaying games and literature..

[cerveza_fiesta]

my first introduction was an actual DnD-based board game set. My buddy got it long before Hero quest was ever put on the market.

Distilled rules and a couple of perscribed missions, culminating in your slaying of a red dragon. Very similar to HeroQuest but 100% d20 system from 1st or 2nd edition DnD rules. I can't recall if this is the exact edition we played, but it was very similar.



We played that one, and then made up a boatload of missions to play after. Again, forcing the little sisters to suffer through each and every one. Muahahah.

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 29 March 2011 - 11:13 AM

[Abyss]

Played correctly, HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS had immense potential for violence and injury.