The Absolute History Of Those Wonderful Old Games
“Old Games” is a concept that brings up different things to different people. What do you think when you hear these words? Some people think of special old tournaments or sports games that were played in years gone by. Others think of those childhood games that they used to play with their friends and family members…games like tag or “hide and seek”. In this article we will be zeroing in on the classic board and card games that were popular years ago (and are still played today). We will be providing a history to these games, and some trivia about them as well.
Board games are, naturally enough, games that are played on a board of some sort. They are amongst the oldest of games, with the first game in this category being the Egyptian game of Senet (which existed around 3500 B.C.). As the years past, board games started to evolve into Europe as the various cultures started to embrace the concept of the board game. With today’s advances in advertising, there are a lot of various board games that families can play. The latest “version” of these boar games is the “online play” version, where you can basically play the same game, but online, with someone who is often on the other side of the world.
Let’s examine the world of strategy board games. Strategy games are those games that require a considerable amount of strategy in order to win. Examples of strategy board games are chess and checkers. Luck board games are those games that just require a good “roll of the dice”, and almost no strategy. Games such as Chutes and Ladders and Sorry fall into this category. Many games, such as Monopoly and Risk, require a bit of luck and strategy. Keep in mind, if you don’t have a good strategy, any sort of luck you may have will go completely out the window.
Classic board games are those games that have stood the test of time, and are just as popular today as they were years ago. Risk and Battleship are two examples of such games. Other examples are: Life, Clue, Monopoly and Sorry. Minor adjustments may have been made to these games over the years (such as the introduction of online game play), but the basic rules and strategy and game play remains the same.
Old games that revolve around a pack of cards have been around for years and years. It is not known when the first deck of cards appeared on the scene, but it’s very likely that the Chinese invented them between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D. It was around this time that they started to shuffle money around.
Around the 15th century we see the format of the English playing cards appear on the scene. We have documentation that in an Act of Parliament, domestic card makers were complaining about the importation of foreign cards into the market, thereby cutting their profits.
Playing cards were originally both created by hand and painted by hand. This was very time and labor intensive, and meant that a deck of cards were very expensive to purchase. Since few people owned them, few people got to play card games. Popular old card games of this time period were: hearts, bridge, poker, and rummy.
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