My 100 favorite collectibles ... No. 94: Vintage board games

The grandaddy of them all. You know a Monopoly game is vintage when the hotels and houses are made of wood!

The classic 1960s/1970s version of Monopoly.

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All-Star Baseball was a classic board game of the 1960s — not only fun to play with the spinner and strategy, but it used Wrigley Field as it's background. Through the magic of baseball-reference.com, this background shot was taken on Aug. 21, 1968. That's Fergie Jenkins pitching to Braves left fielder Mike Page in the top of the sixth inning. The Cubs trailed 4-2, but rallied to win 5-4 on Ernie Banks' two-run homer off Cecil Upshaw in the seventh inning.

Even in an era where video games are dominant, if not addictive, the simplicity of All-Star Baseball still resonates. So cool that my great nephews are enthusiastically into a game we played at their age nearly 60 years ago!

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From the classic TV show with Hugh Downs.

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Hands down was actually as fun to play as it looked on the box.

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Alex Trebek became a legend as host of the modern version of Jeopardy! on television. But, with all due respect to Trebek, the original version of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming was the best.

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Eye Guess with host Bill Cullen might have been the most underrated game show on television in the 1960s. Great, funny show with a fantastic host.

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Password with Allen Luden was another classic TV game show in the '60s.

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Stratego was underrated! Even better than Battleship, and still fun to play today.

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We spent hours playing this baseball version of foto-electric football. Actually, we spent hours setting it up and trying to figure it out, and a few minutes of actually playing it before giving up.

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