 Hi, this is Jujuo. Welcome to my channel. Now, what I'd like to do in this video is follow up on a promise that I made, which was to show you my board game collection. Okay. And just to give you a heads up, there are board games here from the 1970s. Well, late 1970s, actually, I guess. From the 1980s, from the 1990s and some from the 2000s. Some of these games, you know, we played a couple of times, two or three times, or a handful of times, and they didn't stick, but they were fun, so I kept them with me. Some of these board games, you know, I personally and family members and friends, we spent hours upon hours upon hours. Some went to the days upon days, upon days playing these things. And I sort of grew up with board games. You know, some of the classics, I guess. Monopoly, for sure. I still have Monopoly set, a couple of Monopoly sets here. You know, Game of Life when you're a kid, and Sorry and Clue and stuff like this. And those were fantastic games. Slowly my gaming career kicked off into playing pretty hardcore Avalon Hill games, more complicated game, strategy games and stuff like this. And I do have the original Avalon, some of the original Avalon Hill games we bought. And they've definitely stayed with me, and they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Even though sometimes you don't get to play them for a very long time because it's hard to find people in the same mindset that are willing to spend maybe a weekend playing a board game, right? So let's take a look at what I have here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to start off with a couple of small games that I have here. And these two have been with me. It's the same game, one was the portable version, one was the home version. And these have stayed with me. I haven't played these for a long time, but they stayed with me for a very long time. It's a fantastic game. And it's mastermind. If you've ever played this game, you know how awesome it is. And if you've never played it, it's an amazing game. And this is the one we used to take with us. It was a travel mastermind game. And you put your selection in there. The person who's putting the pattern together and the person guessing puts the stuff on here. And this was the home version. And these are original versions that we bought. We bought these in the 1980s, I believe. It could have been in the late 70s. I don't know what the copyright on this thing is, when the date for it is. So I'm going to put this one aside. So that's one of the games that's been with me the longest. And just a heads up, any of these games that I'm showing you, because we're not going to open every single one, otherwise we'll be here all day for like eight hours looking through the pieces and stuff like this, right? But if there's any games here that you want to take a closer look at and if enough people want it, I'll definitely happily, gladly show these games to you guys in detail. Some of these games I haven't played for a long time so I've forgotten some of the rules and stuff like this. But I'll be happy to show them to you. And after the mastermind, there's another game that we played a lot when I was really young. And it's double this game. And I've kept this original one with me because I think we just had so much fun with it. And these are the sticks to it, right? Beautiful pattern. So this thing's been with us for, or been with me for a very, very long time. I never got rid of it. A couple of games that we've played a fair bit is when we were kids and I still love to play is Domino's. And this set has been in the family for very long time and I've inherited it. This was my great grandma's set. So Domino's is absolutely magnificent and I bought this one in Cuba when I traveled Cuba in the 1990s. And in Cuba, Domino's is huge, huge. In Latin America, Mexico too. And this is the pieces. They're nice wood pieces, large. It's a nice set. I haven't played too much on this one. I just bought this one because it was traveling and there's a lot of people playing. And we wanted to play a little bit while we were traveling. But the one I play with is this one for sure because I love the sound when you're mixing it up. And these are, I don't know what they are. They're sort of like a rivalry. I don't think they're a rivalry. I hope they're not a rivalry. Mix it around and they hit each other. And it's a fantastic sound, very hypnotic. A great game to play. There's different variations of it. Another thing that we've had for a very, very long time, of course, this is my traveling chess set. Okay, let me open this up. Wow, I'm not going to open everything up. So this is my traveling chess set. These are the pieces here, right? And in here is, let's see if you can see it. It's sort of the leather or pleather, whatever you want to call it. You lay it out. The bad thing with this is you need a flat surface to do it with a wooden hard board. It's, you know, you can play it anywhere. This one you need a sort of a flat-ish surface to play. And as you know, as soon as we knew, I found one of the things that came across was the pieces for original chess board. And these are nice little wooden pieces that's zooming in or not. Nice little wooden pieces. So this is the original board that we had. I don't know. I don't think all the pieces are there. I just pulled this out of a box. And we do have another chess board, a marble chess board that's still in storage. And when I do get that moved out here, I will definitely show you that chess board. It's a beautiful board. It's large. It's fantastic. And another game, I forgot to put it in this pile here, that I always have with me. It's probably the game that I've played the most in my life. We made the video with me and my grandma playing backgammon. And I showed you my grandmother's backgammon board. I have my own backgammon board here. So let me go grab it. I'm going to show you that one as well. So this is my backgammon board. And this is sort of a carrying case that my grandma made. And this is my backgammon board. And like I mentioned, I love playing on wood, right? It's a nice board. I really like playing on this board as well. And the dice for this is fantastic. I'm going to show you the dice on this. Put this guy here. I know I said I was going to open all the boards, but this stuff for us is fantastic for me anyway. They're like teeny, teeny. So they spin a lot, right? And this one has got the red. The one piece is like a red. And this one's black, normal, like the rest. And this is like super small. And these things, when you hit them, they just go... Spin like crazy. Fun to watch. Fun to watch. What else do we got here? That's the chessboard. Let me put these guys on the table. I'm going to show you this big thing that we got that I've had for a long time. Actually, these little guys, I think they're just going to leave me here. But we have... Make sure we have enough room for the bigger guys, okay? So let me show you this thing. Now, this thing... I have to crack this open. Oh yeah, of course, then we have... You know, for cards. Play a lot of cards. And this is... What do you call it? Poker chips, basically. Chips for playing cards and gin rummy. I played a lot of gin rummy in poker and blackjack and whatnot, right? But let me show you this. There was a period in my life where... I made my money off gambling and we played a lot of poker and I would go to Vegas a lot for... I guess I've been to Vegas a fair bit of time. Last time I was there, it was towards the end of the 1990s, 2000s or so. But one thing we used to do when we used to... You know, I used to hold poker games at my house and one thing that there was a couple of us that we're into was craps. So about, I guess, 15, 17 years ago or so. I made us a sort of a crap table that we could play on. So let me show you this thing, okay? Put this thing together, okay? Like 15 years ago or so and I just pulled this out of storage. And in the previous place we're in, it's very light. So I had this as a wall decor. Just as a piece on the wall. Okay, so let me show you this thing. The way it sits, it's got the hooks here. As far as the craft table goes, I made this thing. It's sort of like the cloth that they use at casinos. You can just buy these things. They're fairly, well, within reason or not, they're fairly inexpensive. The cloth, I can't remember how much I paid for it. And it took like a little foamy thing that I had and put wood behind it and I sort of stapled it back. So it's fairly solid. It's fairly, you can flush, right? You can move the chips around on it. And what I'm going to do, if you've been watching the videos and stuff like this for the language of mathematics and math in real life, there's a video that I made for dice, the probability distribution of two die, right? Two six sided die. And at some point what we're going to do, because in my opinion, playing games, board games, especially dice games, has taught me a lot about the statistics. So one thing I do plan on doing is creating a series for math in real life on how to play craps because dice games, the probability distribution for dice and craps is an amazing teaching tool when it comes to dealing with fractions, multiplying fractions and getting an idea of how probability distribution works, especially in normal distribution, right? So at some point we're going to work on this table, okay? Just to give you guys a heads up. Die here. Now, as far as some of the board games that I have, 100% risk is a fantastic game to play and they want to play a nice simple rule type of game. So this has been around with us for, God, I think we've had that board for a while now. I don't know what version that is. That was either in the 2000s or 1990s. A couple are the games, or one of the games that has been around, played a lot, monopoly, 100%. Haven't played it for a number of years now, but it's a fantastic game to have if you want to play and it couldn't help it at some point. They put out a Star Wars monopoly set. I think this was in the 2000s that we ended up buying this. As far as games that are like, risk are concerned, there are absolutely amazing games that I've played a lot. Like this game I'm going to show you. We've played it in an insane amount. And it is absolutely a brilliant game. And we got introduced to this game, or I got introduced to this game in the 1980s, I believe. I think so. It used to be another company that owned it now. It looks like it's Avalon Hill, Avalon Hillsback or something. But this is the set and the game. Let me just tell you what the game is. The game is access and allies. It's a World War II strategic game, I guess you can call it. And it's a fantastic game. It's beautiful. And we play this game within the families and friends very often. And you know, we have the bags where you put the pieces and stuff like this. It's absolutely a brilliant game. The premise of the game is you can either be the allies, or you can be the Axis or the allies, right? You could either be U.S., Japan, U.S., U.K. and Russia, or you can be Japan and Germany, and you can play with maximum five people, or you can play with two people, right? We played the original scenario a lot at the beginning. But at some point we started modifying the game because the original scenario, you play a certain number of combinations and it does its thing. But right now for the last number of years, I can't remember a couple of decades, like at least 15 years or so, whenever we play Axis and Analyze, we've been playing at sort of like risk where we play up to five people and each person is a certain color, right? And basically we play at risk where people start placing, you don't have cars where you start placing on the map and you get a certain amount of the IPCs, ICUs, or IPCs I think. I forget what they stand for, basically a certain amount of money where you can buy your weapons and stuff like this and you have to figure out the, you know, basically your budget. You have to budget your war, I guess. And it's a fantastic game to learn how basically when it comes to in real life situations as well, the amount of funds that you have, barring any catastrophic mistakes you might make in the game, the person who's making the most money per year and you can buy the highest number of weapons usually ends up winning the war. And I remember this overlapping with something I read, a paper I read, I've read a fair bit and watched a fair bit of documentaries about World War II in Vietnam and Korea. I was sort of a war buff for a number of years, that's why you'll see a lot of war games here. But there was a paper that I read once which was absolutely fantastic, it was during World War II when the United States joined the Allies. As soon as it happened, I believe it was Churchill that gave a speech that said basically they won the war, because the GDP, the combined, I'm not sure if the GDP was the metric that they were measuring there, I'm pretty sure it was and it was something else, but the metric that world leaders were measuring for the equivalent of GDP, how much a country was making, producing, stuff like this. In that speech, basically I believe it was Churchill that said they won the war because their combined GDP of the Allies was now more than the combined GDP of the Axis so they knew that we're going to win, which is a tricky thing to say, right? But Axis and Allies, this is the game the board we're playing with right now and because of the way we're playing it, we've catapulted the older boards that we have and I've actually got here, let me show you this one. Axis and Allies, the smaller one is the newer version, this is the older version, or one iteration of it, and I believe when you lay out the board for this, it's a little bit bigger than the newer version, but I think the newer version has done slight modifications to the board, they've connected up a couple of places and it's a better version of the game even though the board is a little bit smaller. Here's another copy. This one is definitely older than the previous one and I think this is the first board we might have had we sort of catapulted it. And here's another one. And for some reason, I think I won this, this is another game that I'm going to show you, but I think I won this one on sort of a tournament. I'm not sure if this was at this tournament that I'm going to mention, but it might have been somewhere else that I won this board or I might have bought it, I don't know. I think I either won this or a version of the other game. So we've got five Axis and Allies, four games. Let me put these guys here. And two plain Axis and Allies. We got into plain Axis and Allies a lot in the 1980s. There were other sort of board games, war board games, strategic board games that the same company was putting out and I believe at the time was Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, I guess, but one of the other games we were putting out was Empire. And we played this a fair bit as well. It's a simplified version of Axis and Allies. There's less type of weaponry you can have. So it's a little bit simpler. The iteration aren't as many, but it was a fun game to play for a while. And another one on the same level another one on the same level was this was fantastic, sugar. And this was based on ancient Japan. It was ninja, samurai, ronin, stuff you can buy. And I haven't played these two games I think last time I played them was like 20 years ago, 25 years ago. But they're fantastic and they'll stay with me. And at some point I'd like to bring these out and find the right people if they're interested to start playing these games again. So these are two of the other ones that stayed with me from that period when we started playing Axis and Allies. Let me show you games here that I played the D&D Dungeons & Dragons when I was in elementary school a little bit. But I never fully got into the D&D realm. Me not personally, but one of the family did. And these are some of the games that I guess I sort of inherited that I found their way to me. And one of them is Dungeons & Dragons, the beginner set, the basic rules. And this is complete. It's got the two player manual and the Dungeon Master rulebook in there. So this is one of the sort of D&D type of games that I've made it my way. The forgotten realms, sort of manual instructions and all the stats of the characters. Warfare in the classical world. I got exposed to some of this stuff a little bit but it's so long ago that I can't remember. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. One other game here that I've seen played but I never got a chance to play. It should be complete, Hero Quest. It looks like a great game. Never got the chance to play it though. Or haven't had the chance to play it yet. I should say because this isn't going anywhere. It's going to stay with me forever, I guess. So let's put these guys here. So those are some of the D&D type of games. I do have. So those are the games. One game that I bought. I think I bought this. I bought this in the 2000s possibly. We played it a couple of times. Two or three times and it looked like a good game but we were just playing around with the rules. Pendulum. But it didn't catch us. So it's almost brand new. I played like three or four times and at some point I'd like to try it again. It's a great game. Well, it looked like a great game. One game that I have played a lot. Not as much as Axis and Allies but it's one of my favorite games. Axis and Allies out of a rating. I would give it, you know, it's a 10 out of 10. It's a game you always go back to. And another game that's a 10 out of 10 is Diplomacy. Really. This game is absolutely amazing but it takes a certain temperament to play it. And I love this game. If you've been on my site for a long time if you've moved around a little bit check out some of the playlists. I had the opportunity to attend 2007 World Diplomacy Championships and DiPCON 40 I believe. That was the number on it. And I love this game. I love playing it but it was going to be such a great event that I decided to sort of document it. So I moved around. I didn't play a single game during the tournament but what I did was moved around and I brought my video camera and I recorded the game, what was going on for, I forget how many days it was I think four days, four or five days, three days maybe. So for the duration of the tournament what I did was interviewed people got them their perspective on Diplomacy I videotaped some of the moves that were happening some of the dialogue that was going on and I ended up videotaping one game almost from beginning all the way to the end there's a story to that and that was a fantastic game and all of that stuff is in the games playlist on my channel so if you want to get a feel for what Diplomacy is it's absolutely amazing and I highly recommend it and I wish more people played it it was more prevalent within society because it teaches a lot about Diplomacy like world politics and how things play out and it has the tendency to make enemies out of family and friends if you're fainted heart you can't handle betrayal just things not working out the way you thought they were going to work out stay away from this game but if you like high intensity games that minimal rules there's no dice or anything like this minimal rules but very heavy and very engaging fantastic game just regarding the Diplomacy the video that I shot for the tournament there is some of the video that I haven't edited yet because I was recording on a really old school camera camcorder, they had mini DV tapes and I ended up editing one of the mini DVs that I had for the game that I shot almost to the end I still have to go back and edit the remaining footage I have of that game and I will at some point, I promise and what I ended up doing was collecting during that tournament I ended up collecting the rules that people wrote for their movements for Diplomacy and this is the way you move you play Diplomacy you write down your rules whoever is playing these bag of these rules when you're playing everyone at the same time writes down the rules you throw it into a little box where your rules are written when the time is up everyone's rules are in so everybody's movement is simultaneous and you make deals with people you ask them to support you doing this and do this and do this and you hope that everything works out but once you read the rules once all the rules are opened up and one person says they're doing this and the other person says they're doing this and you find out who's backstabbing there's nothing like it in any board games I've ever played is a very unique experience now, one other game that I have bought in recent years and we gave it a try we tried playing it but it didn't stick and it's a good game I'd like to try it again in a more lighter setting or is Carcassonne Carcassonne I don't know how you pronounce that it was definitely fun to play it has multiple variations like you build your board as you're playing this is your tile system and it's a very fun game at some point I'd like to play it again I want to show you some games that I've bought at a garage sale we were trekking through the United States we're in an RV and stuff like this and we stopped in Washington State we stopped at a garage sale and we didn't have any board games with us so they had these board games for sale one of them was ended up picking up and never got around to playing them Trivill Pursuit and Trivill Pursuit is not really my game but there was others that were into it there's ploy these are from the 1970s I think from the 1970s they look great they have pieces in them and stuff and you build some of it into it this one looks like this in the back this one again is a board base and as far as we know they were all complete this one looked amazing Twix didn't get around to playing it I love to play it and the board looks like this sort of like 3D-ish I bought these ones I think they were bought for like 2 bucks each or something or a dollar each at the garage sale what a fantastic set what a fantastic set board games that to me these original sets are absolutely amazing they're my treasure I guess and these are games from Avalon Hill and Avalon Hill I think it's come back again I don't know I should have read up on their history I knew about Avalon Hill the history of them a long time ago but there were original board gaming companies and then they went through hard times like bankrupt and someone bought a mouth and stuff like this but they had some of the most brilliant games around and they still do if they're around if they're still kicking it and let me show you the game that I've played the most I would spend weekends playing this game you would come home from school on Friday and Friday night you start playing and you sometimes finish sometimes you would play for like 7 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours you'd be finished the next morning sometimes the game would carry on you could tell it's going to go on for a long time and you start Friday night you go to 3 o'clock Saturday morning you give it a break you go to sleep, you wake up you play all Saturday you go to sleep you do some stuff you were supposed to do and then you come back Sunday and you finish the game Sunday so it's a whole week long weekend long game and it's Squad Leader this is the one I've played the most and this is the original set that we bought okay and again we went through when it comes to Squad Leader we went through all the iterations with the map and I'm going to show you this map that we have you have a string with a rope in it because line of sight matters in this they take a while to learn the rules the Avalon Hill games or Squad Leader anyway it's very intricate, this is a map of the city and this hex space and it's got 4 of these guys there's a 4 or 3 I haven't played Squad Leader for over 25 years on this board and you sort of take these things and put them together in their hex space and they match each other and there's scenarios here and look here's that thing it's on the side actually this is how long the plastic is crumbling and these are some of the pieces that you have for Squad Leader there's sort of what a brilliant game what a brilliant game and you have your troops they're like men and you have your stats on there like these numbers here 4, 6, 7 they have meaning it's their attack, their defense and their morale and stuff and in this game it's absolutely brilliant it's got let me pull out some of these let me show you the rulebook and I don't think we even implemented all the different types of rules that you had, we rarely ever did parachuting and I believe there's parachuting here so this is the rulebook right and the text on this is small very very small and it's how many pages 23, 25 and they have charts and a lot of these things were historically accurate in terms of the weaponry you were using and the technology available at the time right, here's what the units are worth their cost there's lots of budgeting and GDP, well not GDP but whatever it is and this is sort of World War 2 scenario and you know you have your rules here that you read and these things were actual scenarios so scenario number 5 you can see it there and you know they had a name for the battle Hill 621 and they told you on the side here what happened what was going on what their objectives were and they have the bottom here is German troops the stars, the American troops and they tell you what pieces you had what you have on the board where they're supposed to be and then you go through your turn you try to play them out and for us we went through all the scenarios multiple times some of the scenarios are very difficult to play some of them are really one sided and you know it's you're just supposed to hold out for a certain number of rounds until you're annihilated so some of the games are taking over areas it's just holding off the opposition long enough for something else to happen brilliant and at some point we sort of like Axis and Allies we sort of created our own scenarios where we gave each other a certain amount of funds and we started buying units and putting the map together and created our own sort of scenario and these are some of the stats that we had of who was getting what right, leader, men, German, HMGs MMGs and stuff like this artillery and what not amazing game this game in combination with Axis and Allies somewhat of board games if you want to know what's happening politically global diplomacy and global politics I know I've made put together because people were asking me about politics, geopolitics and stuff like this so I put together some politics videos and specifically related to the economics of politics right board games are a huge factor in trying to understand for me they have been anyway trying to understand diplomacy and how governments function and how society or countries position themselves based on geopolitics geography based on their GDP based on their technology so if you really want to understand politics, geopolitics and stuff like this board games are a great way to understand a lot of that as well as economics so that's my little tangent regarding this Squad leader, absolutely brilliant game and at some point I hope that I'll meet someone where we can start playing again because I haven't played it for 25 years plus for multiple reasons another game on that same level, squad leader that I've played second most when it comes to my Avalon health collection here is Panzer Blitz and this is more of a larger Squad leader goes zooms in so you can go inside cities you have individual soldiers and stuff like this units and Panzer Blitz is larger battles, there's a lot of tanks this thing encompasses bigger terrain and that one's smaller terrain closer by and this is a fantastic game as well simpler than Squad leader and we started off with this one this is the one we started off playing our first Avalon health game this thing right here Panzer Blitz played it a lot and then we got into more Avalon health games and we read about Squad leader and we ended up picking up Squad leader and once we started playing Squad leader it was seldom that we went to Panzer Blitz because Squad leader had it was more intricate, more detailed so you could do more a couple other Avalon health games actually three other ones one of them is wind plays and show I mean that I play in these between us friends and stuff like this we get together if we wanted something light lighter, nothing as serious as diplomacy where people would get into arguments and fight and sometimes people would be pissed at each other for days or weeks or sometimes months right we want to play something lighthearted wind plays and show it was a fun game again I haven't played it for a long time I haven't played any of the Avalon health games for 25 plus years another game we played a fair bit and it was a good game to play it was Kingmaker and this was based in the British Empire UK if I remember the map correctly it had Scotland on there as well I don't know if it had Ireland the British Isles I believe that's what's on this map I haven't seen this map for a long time but no, Scotland was not part of it to collect this is the map of it and it was a fun game to play it had different variations it didn't last with us as long as Squabbiter but it had its twists and turns very fun, very fun one game that we played a fair bit and from the collection as well it's one of my favorite games and I actually have two copies of it plus the expansions Frank Herbert's Dune what a great game and I started playing Dune in the 1980s this one I started playing in the 1980s that's before I had even read Dune and I loved this game I got into playing it because of the movie so once after watching the movie I personally loved it I thought it was fantastic I know it doesn't get too much love and we started playing Dune so I played this a lot in the 1980s a little bit in the 1990s as well it's a fantastic game and I didn't end up reading Dune until mid-19 mid to late 1990s and I tried to find people to play Dune with that didn't happen and one of the things I actually did was I met someone that recommended that I read Dune that's the reason I read Dune so they loved it and after reading the book I really wanted to play the game again so I ended up buying I went online it was difficult to find this game because what do you call it Avalon Hill I think it was going through the hard times then there weren't too many board games and they weren't reprinting things so I had to go on a forum ask someone if they had the Dune game available and someone replied to one of the threads I started and I think it was mid 1990s I guess mid 1990s for sure where I went into I don't know what form it was and I said does anyone know where I can get the game of Dune and someone said I have extra copy with the expansion set so I ended up buying the Dune plus the total expansion sets and I remember this I think it was for 50 bucks plus maybe it was 75 bucks including shipping or something like this so here is the other copy of the Dune that I have I don't know if the date is going to be on this 1979 so this might be my copy and this was no this is 1979 too so I can't remember I think this might be my original copy I'm pretty sure because I kept these guys together and this is the other copy and if you guys know which one came out first please let me know and here are the two expansion sets the Dune we never got around I try to get the people to be interested in playing Dune but it didn't happen so I've never played the expansion set this one or Space Harvest at some point I would love to sit down play Dune again and this is like wishful thinking because each one of these games you can really learn how to play it well like Axis and Malatis is really easy to learn and they're really fun because there's a lot of iterations and it's very personal interaction you interact with people a lot diplomacy is easy to play as well simple rules difficult game to master very difficult game to to be good at ok and then the other ones I don't know Heroes Quest I haven't played yet but the Avalon Hill game Squad Leader Panzer Blitz difficult games to learn it takes a lot of commitment Dune is fairly easy to learn so Dune will be easier to find people to play with if you're trying to play an Avalon Hill game and it's a lot of fun and Kingmaker is it's an easy game to learn as well and it's not that difficult to learn the intricacies of right so that's about it that's my gaming collection and what I'm going to do is I'm creating putting together another playlist called Collections show and tell I guess and I'm going to start putting anything that I'm showing showing you a collection of in that playlist there's going to be a lot of comic books because I've shown you a lot of my comic book collection but I'll put the crystal collection in there too the plant collection I do have a video game collection that I will show you at some point as well I've gone through some of the boxes there's some old school stuff there that I think some of you will definitely love seeing if you're into video games and I have collections of some other things as well that I might get a chance to show you so I'll put everything that's related to that in that playlist so if you're just interested in collections some of the things I have kicking around being a semi-pack right I guess you can find them there okay that's it for now I guess I'll see you guys in the next video