There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. That is what I play. I am so embarrassed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.
I have never played a game in my life.
I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.