Hobbies And Interests
Board Games
Classic board games are highly rated and sought after for generations, eventually proving timeless. Among the best old school board games are Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Life, Pictionary, Sorry, Mouse Trap, Trouble, Operation, Scrabble, Connect 4 and Candyland. These board games have had the highest selling rate from major stores like Toys 'R Us for 10 years or more. They can be purchased for between $10 and $20 as of 2011, depending on how old they are and how complex the playing pieces are.
Card Games
The benefit of card games is that all of them can be played through the same medium -- a deck of cards. Classic card games include Solitaire, Bridge, Cribbage, Hearts, Poker, Rummy, Spades and Euchre. Solitaire can be played alone or as a race between two or more players. Many of these card games are popular in casinos or for private gambling sessions in states where such activity is legal. Uno is another classic card game that requires a specialized deck of cards to play.
Arcade Games
Arcades became popular in the 1970s as places to be social and have fun with new technology. The most highly rated old school arcade games include Pacman, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter, Contra, Megaman, Frogger, Super Mario, Metal Slug, Asteroids, Tetris, Atari and Pong. Among other classic attractions in arcade games are shooting games, where players physically hold a plastic gun and aim at the screen to shoot objects, ball-toss games where players physically throw a ball into a hoop or at a target, and pinball machines with various themes.
Outdoor Games
Obsession with stationary games can be broken up with outdoor games that allow you to get physical. Classic outdoor games are typically employed at elementary and middle schools in physical education classes as a way to get kids moving. The most popular outdoor old school games include tag, hide and seek, kickball, relay race and blind walk. Variations on these games have been created throughout the years, such as blindfolded tag and nighttime hide and seek. blind walk, which may be less familiar than the other games, requires a relatively safe path with some twists and turns. Walkers get a good look at the path and are then blindfolded one by one. A referee times how fast each walker goes from the beginning to the end of the path blindfolded to determine the winner.