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Collecting Vintage Games
Practically every person in America has played some sort of mass-produced, indoor game during their childhood. Classics like
Monopoly, the Game of Life, and Stratego have been enjoyed by literally millions of people on rainy afternoons and vacations.
Board games are undoubtedly the most numerous and popular segment of this category, followed by card games and what are known as
'action' games, such as the spine-bending Twister or a game of nerves like Jenga.
The collectability of such games is fairly high, although most board games, even original productions of the classics, do not command the relatively high prices enjoyed by other such categories as action figures or comic books.
The highest prices are commanded by the rarest and most sought-after games; but most collectors also face stiff competition from other types of collectors - for example, a collector of any type of Dark Shadows memorabilia may be a rival bidder for a Dark Shadows Barnabas Collins game. One should also expect to pay more for games which are now going on fifty years old - still recognizable classics, but which become more rare every year as attrition eats away at the existing supply.
When collecting vintage games, be on the lookout for what condition the item is in: is the box completely intact? Is it taped on one or more sides? Are all the pieces there, and would you know it if they are? One expects honesty from a seller, but the potential buyer must educate herself about exactly what is being purchased.
The list below contains board, card, action, and tabletop strategy games. What it doesn't contain (although a few of them have probably sneaked in) are games that may be more accurately described as 'toys,' like bagatelles and more skill-oriented items such as, say, Time Bomb.
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$20,000 Pyramid Game 1313 Dead End Drive 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 25 Ghosts 4000AD Interstellar Conflict Game Abbott & Costello Who's On First? ABC Monday Night Football ABC Sports Winter Olympics Action Baseball Addams Family (1965)* Addams Family (1973) Addams Family Card Game (1965)* Advance to Boardwalk Agent Zero-M Spy Detector Aggravation Air Trix Alfred Hitchcock Why Mystery Game* Alien Allan Sherman's Camp Granada Game All American Football* All in the Family All My Children All Pro Baseball All Pro Basketball All Pro Football All Star Baseball All Star Baseball Fame All Star Basketball All Star Electric Baseball & Football All Star Football All Time Greats Baseball Game the Amazing Spider-Man Game Annette's Secret Passage Annie Oakley Annie the Movie Game Anti-Monopoly APBA Baseball Master Game APBA Pro League Football APBA Saddle Racing Game Apollo: A Voyage to the Moon the Archie Game* Arnold Palmer's Inside Golf Art Lewis Football Game Art Linkletter's House Party Art Linkletter's People Are Funny Party Game As the World Turns ASG Baseball ASG Major League Baseball Astro Launch A-Team Autograph Baseball Game Axis & Allies Babes in Toyland Ballplayer's Baseball Game Barbie, Queen of the Prom* Barbie's Little Sister Skipper Game Baretta Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Game Barney Miller Bart Starr Quarterback Game Baseball (1960's, Tudor) Baseball Card Game Baseball Challenge the Baseball Game (1988) Baseball Strategy Baseball, A Sports Illustrated Game Baseball, Football, & Checkers Bas-Ket* Basketball Strategy Bat Masterson Batman Game (1966) Batman (1978) Batman and Robin (1965)* Batman Batarang Toss Batman Card Game Bats in the Belfry Batter-Rou Baseball Game Battle Masters Battle of the Planets Battleship Battlestar Galactica Battling Tops Game Beatles Flip Your Wig Game* Ben Casey MD Game Benji Detective Game Bermuda Triangle Beverly Hillbillies Game Bewitched Bewitched Stymie Game Bible Quiz Lotto Bigfoot Big League Baseball (1959, Saalfield) Big League Baseball Game (1966, 3M) Big League Manager Football Bionic Woman Black Beauty Blade Runner BMX Cross Challenge Action Game Bob Fellde's Big League Baseball Boggle Bonkers! (This Game Is... ) Boris Karloff's Monster Game Boston Red Sox Game Branded Bruce Jenner Decathlon Game Buck Rogers (1950) Buck Rogers (1979) Bugaloos Bugs Bunny Under the Cawit Game Bullwinkle Hide & Seek Game Bullwinkle's Super Market Game Cabbage Patch Kids California Raisins Board Game Calling Superman Can You Catch It Charlie Brown? Candy Land Cannonball Run Captain America (1966) Captain America (1977) Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels Captain Kangaroo Careers Carl Yastrzemski's Action Baseball Carol Burnett's Spoof card game* Casper the Friendly Ghost Game (1959, MB) Casper the Friendly Ghost Game (1974, Schaper) Catch a Crook* Centipede Challenge Golf at Pebble Beach Challenge the Yankees Championship Baseball Championship Basketball Championship Golf Charlie Brown's All Star Baseball Game Charlie's Angels Charlotte's Web Game Cherry Ames' Nursing Game Cheyenne Chicago Sports Trivia Game Chiclets Gum Village* CHiPs (1981, Ideal) CHiPs Game (1977, Milton Bradley) Chutes & Ladders Clash of the Titans Close Encounters of the Third Kind Clue College Basketball Columbo Comp IV Computer Baseball Computer Basketball Computerized Pro Football Concentration Coney Island, The Game Of Connect Four Conquest of the Empire Cootie Count Down Space Game* Crazy Clock Game Creature Castle Creature Features Creature from the Black Lagoon Curious George Game Cut Up Shopping Spree Game Dallas Game (1980, Mego) the Dana Girls Daniel Boone Trailblazer Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Dark Crystal Game Dark Shadows Game Dark Tower Dark World Dastardly and Muttley the Dating Game Davy Crockett Adventure Game Davy Crockett Frontierland Game Davy Crockett Radar Action Game Davy Crockett Rescue Race Game Dawn of the Dead Dear Abby Deluxe Wheel of Fortune Dennis the Menace Baseball Game Donny McLain Magnetik Baseball Deputy Dawg Hoss Toss Dick Tracy Crime Stopper Dick Van Dyke Board Game Diner's Club Credit Card Game Dinosaur Island Disney Mouseketeer Disneyland Game Doctor Who Don Carter's Strike Bowling Game Donny & Marie Osmond TV Show Game Don't Break the Ice Don't Spill the Beans Dracula Mystery Game Dracula's "I Vant to Bite Your Finger" Game Dragnet Dragonlance Dragonmaster Dragon's Lair Dr. Kildare Dukes of Hazzard Dune (1984, Parker Bros) Dune, Frank Herbert's (1979, Avalon Hill) Dungeon! Dungeon Dice Dungeons & Dragons Duran Duran Game Dynamite Shack Dynomutt Earl Gillespie Baseball Game Earth Satellite Game Electra Woman and Dyna Girl Electric Sports Car Race Electronic Detective Game Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boys Game Elvis Presley Game Emergency! Emprire Strikes Back - Hoth Ice World Escape from New York E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial the Fall Guy Family Affair Family Feud Home Game Family Ties Game Fangface Fantastic Voyage Game Fantasy Island Game Fat Albert Feeley Meeley Fireball Island Fireball XL-5 Magnetic Dart Game Fireball XL-5 Flash Gordon Adventure on the Moons of Mongo* Flintstones Dino the Dinosaur Game* Flintstones Game* Flintstones Stone Age Game* Flying Nun Game the Fonz Game Football Fever Football, Baseball, & Checkers Fortress America Foto-Electric Baseball Foto-Electric Football Frank Cavanaugh's American Football Frankenstein Game F-Troop Fu Manchu's Hidden Hoard Funky Phantom Game Funny Bones Game Gardner's Championship Golf Garfield General Hospital (1974, Parker Bros.) General Hospital (1980's, Cardinal) the Generals Gentle Ben Animal Hunt Game George of the Jungle Game Gettysburg Ghosts Giant Wheel Cowboys n Indians* Gidget G.I. Joe (1982) G.I. Joe Adventure (1982) G.I. Joe Card Game G.I. Joe Combat Infantry Game* G.I. Joe Marine Paratrooper G.I. Joe Navy Frogman* Gil Hodges's Pennant Fever Gilligan (The New Adventures Of) Gilligan's Island Globetrotter Basketball, Official Globe-Trotters Gnip Gnop the Godfather Game Godzilla (1960's, Ideal) Godzilla (1978, Mattel) Gomer Pyle Game Gong Show Game (1975, Milton Bradley) Gong Show Game (1977, American Pub.) Good Guys N Bad Guys Good Ol' Charlie Brown Game Goodbye Mr. Chips Game Goonies Gotham Professional Basketball Gotham's Ice Hockey Green Acres Game Green Ghost Game (1965, Transogram) Green Hornet Quick Switch Game* Gremlins Grizzly Adams Gunness Game of World Records Gunsmoke* |
Half-Time Football Hangman Hank Aaron Baseball Game Hank Aaron Bases Loaded Hank Bauer's 'Be A Manager' Happy Days the Happy Little Train Game Hardy Boys Mystery Game* Hardy Boys Treasure Game Harlem Globetrotters Game Harlem Globetrotters Official Edition Basketball Haunted House Game Haunted Mansion Have Gun Will Travel Game Hawaii Five-O Hawaiian Eye Hawaiian Punch Game Heart Throb Hector Heathcote Heroscape Hey Pa! There's a Goat on the Roof! the Hobbit Game Hogan's Heroes Game* Holly Hobbie Wishing Well Game* Hollywood Squares Hollywood Stars, the Game of Home Court Basketball Home Team Baseball Game Honey West Honeymooners Game Hot Wheels Game Hot Wheels Wipe-Out Game Hotels Houndcats Game How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying the Howard Hughes Game Howdy Doody Adventure Game Howdy Doody's TV Game Huckleberry Hound Western Game Hungry Hungry Hippos Hunt for Red October I Dream of Jeannie Game I'm George Gobel, and Here's the Game Incredible Hulk with the Fantastic Four Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark Inspector Gadget Ironside I Spy Jackie Gleason's And AW-A-A-A-Y We Go! Jackie Gleason's Story Stage Game Jacmar Big League Electric Baseball James Bond 007 Goldfinger Game James Bond 007 Thunderball Game James Bond Live and Let Die Tarot Game James Bond Message From M Game James Bond Secret Agent 007 Game James Bond You Only Live Twice James Clavell's Shogun James Clavell's Tai-Pan James Clavell's Whirlwind Jan Murray's Charge Account Jan Murray's Treasure Hunt Jaws JDK Baseball Jeanne Dixon's Game of Destiny Jem Concert Clash Jenga Jeopardy* Jetsons Fun Pad Game* Jetsons Rosie the Robot Game* Jetsons Out of This World Game Jimmy the Greek Oddsmaker Football Johnny Ringo Johnny Unitas Football Game Joker's Wild Jonathan Livingston Seagull Jonny Quest Game Justice League of America KaBoom! the Kennedys Kentucky Derby Ker-Plunk King Kong Game (1963, Ideal) King Kong Game (1966, Milton Bradley) King Kong Game (1976, Ideal) King Oil King Zor, the Dinosaur Game KISS On Tour Game Knight Rider Kojak Korg 70,000 BC Kreskin's ESP Game Krull Kukla & Ollie Labyrinth Lancer Land of the Giants Land of the Lost Laramie Las Vegas Baseball Lassie Game Laugh-In's Squeeze Your Bippy Game Laverne & Shirley Game Leave It to Beaver Ambush Game Leave It to Beaver Money Maker Leave It to Beaver Rocket to the Moon Let's Make A Deal (1964, Milton Bradley) Let's Make A Deal (1970's, Ideal) Let's Play Basketball Let's Play Golf, The Hawaiian Open Let's Take a Trip the Lieutenant Life, the Game Of Li'l Abner's Spoof Game Linebacker Football Little Black Sambo Little House on the Prairie Little League Baseball Game Little Orphan Annie Lone Ranger and Tonto Spin Game Look All-Star Baseball Game Looney Tunes Game Lord of the Rings Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Game Lost in Space Game Lost Treasure* Love Boat World Cruise Lucan, the Wolf Boy the Lucy Show Game Lucy's Tea Party Game MacDonald's Farm Madame Planchette Horoscope Game Mad Magazine Game MAD - What, Me Worry? Madcap Marathon* Magnetic Flying Saucers Main Street Baseball Major League Baseball Major League Baseball Magnetic Dart Game Man from UNCLE Iliya Kuryakin Card Game Man from UNCLE Napoleon Solo Game Man from UNCLE, THRUSH Ray Gun Affair Game Manhunt* Margie, the Game of Whoopie Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade Martin Luther King Jr. Marvel Super-Heroes Card Game Marx-O-Matic All Star Basketball Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Mary Poppins Carousel Game M*A*S*H Game Masterpiece, the Art Auction Game* Match Game Matchbox Traffic Game the McDonald's Game McHale's Navy Game Meet the Presidents Melvin the Moon Man Men into Space Merry Milkman Merv Griffin's Word For Word Miami Vice: The Game Mickey Mantle's Action Baseball Mickey Mouse (1950, Jacmar) Mickey Mouse (1976, Parker Bros.) Mighty Comics Super Heroes Game Mighty Hercules Game Mighty Heroes on the Scene Game Mighty Mouse Mighty Mouse Rescue Game Mille Bournes Milton the Monster Miss America Pageant Game Mission: Impossible (1967, Ideal) Mission: Impossible (1975, Berwick) Mister Ed Game Mod Squad Game Monday Morning Quarterback Monkees Game Monopoly Monster Game (1965, Milton Bradley) Monster Game (1977, Ideal) Monster Lab Monstermania Monster Mansion Monster Old Maid Monster Squad Monsters of the Deep Moon Blast-Off Moon Shot Moon Tag, Game of Mork & Mindy* Mouse Trap Mr. Machine Game Mr. T Game Munsters Card Game Munsters Drag Race Game Munsters Masquerade Game Munsters Picnic Game Muppet Show Game Murder on the Orient Express Murder She Wrote MVP Baseball, The Sports Card Game My Favorite Martian Mystery Date Mystery Mansion Mystic Skull: The Game of Voodoo Mystic Wheel of Knowledge Name That Tune Nancy Drew Mystery Game NASCAR Daytona 500 National Football League Quarterback, Official National Inquirer National Lampoon's Sellout National Pro Football Hall of Fame Game National Pro Hockey National Velvet Game Naval Battle NBA Basketball Game (Offical) NBC Game of the Week NBC Peacock NBC Pro Playoff NBC TV News Negamco Basketball New Adventures of Pinocchio New Avengers Shooting Game New Fantastic Four Game Newlywed Game NFL Armchair Quarterback NFL Game Plan NFL Quarterback NFL Strategy NHL All-Pro Hockey NHL Strategy Nightmare on Elm Street No Respect, the Rodney Dangerfield Game the Nurses NY Mets Baseball Card Game Official Baseball Game Official Boston Marathon Game O.J. Simpson See-Action Football the Old Army Game of Beetle Bailey Operation Oscar Robertson's Pro Basketball Ouija Outer Limits P.T. Boat 109 Game Pac-Man Panzer Leader Parcheesi Park and Shop Parker Brothers Baseball Game Partridge Family* Password* Patty Duke Game Paul Brown's Football Game Payday Peanuts: the Game of Charlie Brown and His Pals Pebbles Flintstone Game People Trivia Game Perfection Perry Mason Case of the Missing Suspect Game Peter Gunn Detective Game Peter Pan Petticoat Junction Phantom of the Opera Mystery Game* Phantom's Complete Three Game Set Philip Marlowe Pictionary Pink Panther Game (1977, Warren) Pink Panther Game (1981, Cadaco) Pinky Lee and the Runaway Frankfurters Pinocchio Pirate and Traveller Pirate Raid Pirate's Cove Pit card game* Planet of the Apes Play Ball! A Baseball Game of Skill Play Basketball with Bob Cousy Playoff Football the Price is Right Prince Caspian Prince Valiant Prize Property* Pro Baseball Card Game Pro Bowl Live Action Football Pro Draft Pro Football Pro Foto-Football Pro Franchise Football Pro Golf Pro Quarterback |
Q*Bert Quarterback Football Game Qubic Quick Draw McGraw Game Quick Draw McGraw Private Eye Game Raggedy Ann Raiders of the Lost Ark Raise the Titanic Rat Patrol Game Rat Patrol Spin Game Rawhide Raymar of the Jungle Real Action Baseball Game Real Baseball Card Game Real Ghostbusters Realistic Football Real Life Basketball the Rebel Red Barber's Big League Baseball Game Reese's Pieces Game Replay Series Baseball Return to Oz Game Richie Rich Rickenbacker Ace Game Ricochet Rabbit Game Rifleman Game Rin Tin Tin Game Ripley's Believe It Or Not Risk Road Runner Game Road Runner Pop Up Game Robin Hood (1955, Harrett-Gilmar) Robin Hood Game (1970's, Parker Bros.) Robin Hood (Adventures Of, 1956) Robin Roberts Sports Club Baseball Game Robocop VCR Game Robot Sam the Answer Man Rocket Race Rocket Race to Saturn Roger Maris's Action Baseball Roscoe Turner Air Race Game Rose Bowl (1966, Lowe) Route 66 Game Roy Rogers Game Sale of the Century* Samsonite Basketball Samsonite Football Sandlot Slugger Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Scotland Yard* Scott's Baseball Card Game Scrabble Scrabble for Juniors Screech! Play in the Dark game* Screwball the Mad Mad Mad Game Sea World Treasure Key Sealab 2020 Game Secret Agent Man Secret of NIMH Sergeant Preston Game Shazam, Captain Marvel's Own Game Shenanigans Carnival of Fun game Sherlock Holmes (1950's, Natl Games) Sherlock Holmes (1980, Whitman) Sherlock Holmes Game (1974, Cadaco) Shogun (1976, Epoch) Shogun (1986, Milton Bradley) Siege* Simon (electronic) Simpsons: the Mystery of Life Sinbad the Sinking of the Titanic Sir Lancelot (Adventures Of) SI: The Sporting Word Game Six Million Dollar Man Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Crisis [Walt Disney's] Sleeping Beauty Smokey: The Forest Fire Prevention Bear Smurf Game Snagglepuss at the Picnic* Snakes in the Grass Snoopy & the Red Baron Snoopy Come Home Game Snoopy Game Snoopy's Doghouse Game Solarquest Solid Gold Music Trivia Sorry! Soupy Sales Sez Go-Go-Go Game Space: 1999 Game Space Angel Game Space Chase Space Game Space Pilot Space Shuttle 101 Space Shuttle Space Strike Special Agent Speed Buggy* Spider-Man with the Fantastic Four Spin Cycle Baseball Spiro T. Agnew American History Challenge Game Sporting News: Baseroll Sports Arena No. 1 Sports Illustrated Baseball Sports Illustrated College Football Sports Illustrated Decathlon Sports Illustrated Handicap Golf Sports Illustrated Prop Football Sports Trivia Game Sports Yesteryear Spy Vs. Spy Square Mile Star Trek (1979) Star Trek Adventure Game (1985, West End Games) Star Trek Game (1967, Ideal)* Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Wars Adventures of R2D2 Game Star Wars Battle At Sarlacc's Pit Star Wars Escape from the Death Star Star Wars ROTJ Ewoks Save the Trees Star Wars Wicket the Ewok Star Wars X-Wing Aces Target Game Starship Troopers Starsky & Hutch Steve Allen's Qubila Steve Canyon Steve Scott Space Scout Game Stick the IRS! the Sting St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Card Game Stock Car Race (1959's, Gardner) Stock Car Racing Game (1956, Whitman) Stock Car Racing Game (1981, Ribbit Toys) Straight Arrow Strategic Command Stratego Strategy Manager Baseball Strat-O-Matic Baseball Strat-O-Matic College Football Strat-O-Matic Football Strat-O-Matic Hockey Strat-O-Matic Sports Know-How Strike Three (Carl Hubbell's) Super Coach TV Football Super Spy Superboy Game Supercar Road Race Supercar to the Rescue Game Supergroup Superman II Superman III* Superman, Adventures Of Superman & Superboy Superman Game (1965, Hasbro) Superman Game (card game, 1966, Whitman) Superman Game (1966, Merry Manuf.) Superman Spin Game Surfside 6 S.W.A.T. Swat Baseball Sword in the Stone Game Tactics II Taffy's Party Game Taffy's Shopping Spree Game Tales of Wells Fargo Talking Baseball Talking Monday Night Football Talisman Tank Battle Tarzan Tarzan to the Rescue Temple of Fu Manchu Game Tennessee Tuxedo Terrytoons Hide N Seek Game Thinking Man's Football Three Stooges Fun House Game Thunderbirds Game Time: the Game Time Machine Time Tunnel Game Time Tunnel Spin-to-Win Game Tiny Tim Game of Beautiful Things Tip-It Tom & Jerry Tom & Jerry Adventure in Blunderland Tom Seaver Game Action Baseball Tomorrowland Rocket to the Moon Top Cat Game Top Pro Basketball Quiz Game Top Pro Football Quiz Game Top Ten College Basketball Tornado Bowl Trapped (Ellery Queen's... ) Triple Yahtzee Tripoley Tripoley Junior Trivial Pursuit Trouble Tru-Action Electric Baseball Game Tru-Action Electric Sports Car Race Trump, the Game TV Guide TV Game* Twiggy, the Game of Twilight Zone Game* Twinkie's Trip to the Star Factory Twister Ultimate Golf Uncle Milton's Ant Farm Game Uncle Wiggily Undercover: the Game of Secret Agents Underdog Underdog Save Sweet Polly Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau USAC Auto Racing US Air Force, Game of Vallco Pro Drag Racing Game VCR Basketball Game VCR Quarterback Game Verne Gagne World Championship Wrestling Vince Lombardi's Game the Virginian* Visit to Walt Disney World Game Voice of the Mummy Voodoo Doll Game Voyage of the Dawn Treader Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Card Game) Wackiest Ship in the Army Wacky Races Game Wagon Train Wally Gator Game Walt Disney's 101 Dalmations Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Walt Disney's The Jungle Book Walt Disney's Official Frontierland Walt Disney's Swamp Fox Game the Waltons* Water Works Weird-Ohs Game Welcome Back Kotter Welcome Back Kotter Card Game Wendy, the Good Little Witch Wheel of Fortune Where's the Beef? Which Witch? White Shadow Basketball Game Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Whosit? Wide World of Sports Auto Racing Wide World of Sports Golf Wide World of Sports Tennis Wild Bill Hickok Wild Kingdom Game Wild, Wild West Willie Mays 'Say Hey' (1954, Toy Dev.) Willie Mays 'Say Hey' Baseball (1958, Centennial Games) Willie Mays Push Button Baseball Wilow Winko Baseball Winky Dink Official TV Game Kit Winnie the Pooh Game Wizard of Oz Game (1962, Lowe) Wizard of Oz Game (1974, Cadaco) Wolfman Mystery Game Wonder Woman Game Wonderbug Game Woody Woodpecker Game Woody Woodpecker's Crazy Mixed Up Color Factory Woody Woodpecker's Moon Dash Game World Bowling Tour World Champion Wrestling Official Slam O Rama World of Micronauts World's Greatest Baseball Game Wow! Pillow Fight for Girls Game Wrestling Superstars WWF Wrestling Game Wyatt Earp Game X-Men Alert! Adventure Game Yahtzee Yogi Bear Break A Plate Game Yogi Bear Cartoon Game Yogi Bear Game Yogi Bear Go Fly A Kite Game Ziggy Game (A Day With... ) Zorro Game (Walt Disney's) Zorro Target Game w/ Dart Gun |