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The Origins of Risk...
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 12:58 pm
by Black Jack
I ran across a dated, but still good, article on the history of Risk.
Read article
An interesting partial list of games that Risk has inspired... is also included.
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:26 pm
by onbekende
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:10 am
by Patroclus
I've got my old board with the wooden pieces tucked away in a safe place.
Many sleepless nights hovering over that board while in college. A beer in one hand, a , well let's forget what else I had......
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:11 am
by ZawBanjito
A slide rule? A bowler hat? An opium pipe? What are you on about, gramps, playing these guessing games!
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 5:13 pm
by olsond
i remember playing risk at my uncles house a while ago... he had the roman numerals version of it. FREAKIN SWEET!
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 7:48 pm
by Scorba
Patroclus wrote:I've got my old board with the wooden pieces tucked away in a safe place.
Many sleepless nights hovering over that board while in college. A beer in one hand, a , well let's forget what else I had......
You clearly like Risk more than anyone else, Patroclus. I mean, most people use pornography. Didn't your opponents complain?
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 7:52 pm
by kingwaffles
Oh my!
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 7:54 pm
by HighBorn
ummmm...
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:51 am
by jay_a2j
i remember playing risk at my uncles house a while ago... he had the roman numerals version of it. FREAKIN SWEET!
Wow..... I remenber that version....my first risk game....memories....
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 11:30 am
by howie
This game brings back so many memories of defeat
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:20 pm
by Patroclus
Scorba: I'm gonna have to find you in a game and annihiliate you.
Zamboni: You're on the list, too!
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:43 pm
by fluffybunnykins
i've got the wooden pieces
'inherited' it from my dad & my uncle. they used to spend weeks over their games when they were whippersnappers. they even had to introduce different coloured washers to indicate 50 & 100 armies. This was mostly down to an early misreading of the rules; they were dividing
armies by 3 instead of
territories. Oh, how we laughed at them!
I think I started playing Risk with them not that long after my first words...
Ah, such sweet memories
Phil
(nostalgia)
