![]() While it may seem tempting, please refrain from laying eggs inside your opponents.īased on the Ghost Train amusement park ride, this game simulates the experience by including sudden and jolting changes of direction, dead stops, getting stuck, and mechanical ghosts. Each player is an astronaut trying to make their escape on the shuttle while using their own personal xenomorph to eliminate other players. ![]() I have no idea what you need all of these things, but the inclusion of everything creepy means it’s obviously amazing.Īliens have invaded the Nostromo. The Green Ghost board is on stilts, players can fall through trap doors, there’s keys, bat feathers, bones, snakes, ghost children, pets, and it was the first board game to glow in the dark. Players move around Frankenstein’s castle looking for the key that matches their color, hoping to reach the laboratory and shut off the power before the monster comes alive. When you stir the cauldron, the Mystic Skull spins and determines where you will place the next pin in your opponents doll. Mystic Skull: The Game of Voodoo (1964)Įach player is a witch doctor with a voodoo doll. “When the game is over and the room is plunged into darkness,” the instructions read, “it is said that the image of Uncle Everett may be seen.”īased on Milton Bradley’s earlier Which Witch? and Haunted House (The Real Ghostbusters board game was also a re-themed version of this), players had to collect ghost card and avoid traps as they made their way up the stairs to close the coffin lid and “lay the ghost.”ģ. When everything has been bought, Uncle Everett reveals how much each item is worth, or how much each player owes in taxes. Everett’s ghostly voice emanates from an actual record player hidden inside the seance table. He believed his spirit would return from the grave to guide the distribution of his wealth.Īlthough he left the bulk of his estate to his parrot, players (his nieces and nephews, of course) gather in his creepy Victorian mansion to hold a seance and bid on his remaining possessions of unknown value. According to the directions, Everett was a spiritualist. Your dear Uncle Everett has died in this rare board game from Milton Bradley. With their eerie box art and creepy themes, these board games will add some spooky fun to the Halloween season without putting your mortal soul in danger. We’re talking about games where a mummy’s voice echos from its tomb, an electronic Deathhead determines if you win a battle against demons or perish, a game where you put voodoo curses on the other players, and plenty of haunted mansions with traps, treasures, and monsters lurking around every corner. But these vintage board games from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s are considerably spookier. The Ouija board is the only board game known to cause so much fear that people refuse to touch it. ![]() The Moral Majority would soon put an end to the ride.Battle monsters, ghosts, voodoo curses, boobytrapped mansions, haunted carnival rides, and more with these vintage spooky board games. Two popular kid’s books with occult themes, Watcher in the Woods (1976) and Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), were adapted by Disney-both of them saw heavy rotation at my Lutheran elementary school on “movie day.” Heavy metal, much of which directly referenced the occult, was charting. Everybody saw Anton LaVey or Satan himself in the inside cover of Hotel California (1976). ![]() Doctor Strange (“Master of the Mystic Arts”), Ghost Rider, and the Son of Satan were popular superheroes. Ouija boards were sold in all the major catalogs. The hippies, determined to escape an everyday reality that had become toxic to them, also experimented with witchcraft, magic, and paganism.Īll of this eventually filtered down to the mainstream and middle class kids. Both Rosemary’s Baby (Ira Levin’s fatalistic novel was a bestseller before it was adapted for film) and the musical Hair-promising a coming era of peace and love, the Age of Aquarius -came out in 1967. The resurgence of the horror genre in the ’70s was paralleled by a fascination for all things supernatural and occult. Take Three Jewels if Your Age is an Odd Number.” Read all the messages here. Example: “The Screeching Green Pestilence Brings Death. There’s a little plastic record playing under the mummy that directs the players’ moves. Voice of the Mummy is the only one I’ve played, and it was over 30 years ago.
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