Old Games Exist Today!
February 5th, 2010
When we think of “old games” various thoughts can come to mind. Perhaps you will recall the childhood games you used to play with your friends, such as tag or “hide or seek”. Others might recall some special sports games or tournaments that were played years ago. In this article we will be focusing on the classic board and card games, providing a bit of a history and background to these games, and mentioning a few of the classics.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.We will first examine the world of strategy games. What is a strategy game? It is a game that involves a good strategy in order to win. Chess and checkers are both strategy games. Games such as Chutes and Ladders and Sorry are luck games, games that require only a good “roll of the dice” (a bit of luck) in order to win. Many games require a bit of both luck and strategy to win. Games such as Risk or Monopoly are good examples. One thing to keep in mind…if you don’t have a good strategy, no amount of “luck” will pay off…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.People have been playing “old games” with cards for centuries. While the exact origin of a deck of cards is not known, it is very likely that they were invented by the Chinese around the time that they started shuffling paper money around. This would be between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D.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.The original playing cards were created and painted by hand. This was a very intensive process in both labor and time. All this manual effort meant that playing cards were very expensive to purchase, and only a select few could play card games. Popular old card games of the time were: bridge, hearts and rummy.
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