![]() 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. Dr.Battle monsters, ghosts, voodoo curses, boobytrapped mansions, haunted carnival rides, and more with these vintage spooky board games.Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures (10).The Forms of Things Unknown (1964, The Outer Limits).My first Frankenstein.and maybe yours?.And finally, The Electric Company: The Blob!.Bram Stoker's Dracula (Fernando Fernandez, 1984).Not only is the cover a send-up of board game advertising graphics, but each track is represented by a different board game box on the interior sleeve. Highly recommended.Īnd if you enjoy vintage board game graphics, you might get a kick out of the CD sleeve art from instrumental surf-band The Bomboras' 1998 album, Head Shrinkin' Fun. The above images came from the excellent Board Games and More Board Games (both by Desi Scarpone for Schiffer Books). Isn't that what we're all asking in our own lives? Voice of the Mummy (1971, Milton Bradley) Like Operation, except with sunken treasure and sharks. ![]() Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (1973, Milton Bradley) You built the mansion one room at a time as the players explored, looking for hidden chests. The Munsters Card game (1964, Milton Bradley) It was basically Cootie Bugs but with glow-in-the-dark skeletons. Milton the Monster (1966, Milton Bradley)īased on the Saturday morning live-action kids show that is scheduled to hit DVD this summer. On the other, there was a concern that it might come into my bed at night and eat me from the feet up. In this game, you used a hook to take turns removing plastic sea-junk from the shark's mouth until it snapped shut. I used to have this game when I was a kid and kept it in perfect condition for many, many years, before finally giving my parents consent to donate it to Goodwill, for a reason that could only make sense to a child: I didn't think it was that much fun to actually play. But the game looks cool!Īny similarity to the film Ghostbusters is for Milton Bradley's lawyers to worry about. There's such a thing as being too friendly. The Addams Family Card Game (1965, Milton Bradley)Īlfred Hitchcock's WHY (1961, Milton Bradley)Īlfred Hitchcock's WHY (1967, Milton Bradley)īarnabas Collins Dark Shadows (1969, Milton Bradley)īoris Karloff's Monster Game (1965, Game Gems)Ĭasper The Friendly Ghost (1974, Schaper) From way up on a dusty old shelf in the Haunted Closet, here's a random sampling of spooky board game box art.
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