Classic Bucket List

An action-point expedition through the jungle, uncovering temples and treasure.

Liar's dice under a cup: raise the bid or call it, and lose a die when you are wrong.

Sculpt something in clay and let the others guess it, slowly, with questions.

Chess with a shuffled back rank, so the opening book is useless.

Plan a route through a fantasy map using transport cards others also need.

Stack blocks into skyscrapers and take over the ones already built.

Five detectives hunt Mister X across a London map; he surfaces every five turns.

Haul freight across Europe by lorry, bidding for the contracts nobody else wants.

Spend carrots to move; the first Spiel des Jahres, and still a clean race game.

A mill game carved into cathedral cloisters and Roman roof tiles.

Find the fairy-tale treasures under the trees and remember where they were.

Bid, steal and exhibit antiques; simultaneous card selection with a lot of bluffing.

Paddle steamers race downriver, picking up passengers and running out of coal.

Draw your own track on the map with a crayon, then race the trains you built.

Fifty alien powers, each of which breaks a different rule.

Build a town straight through everyone else's outhouses, then vote on the mess.

Avoid the tricks, or take them all: the classic shedding game.

The area-majority classic: caballeros, a castillo and one hidden placement.

Two hundred years of pegging fifteen-twos on a wooden board.

The role-selection classic that defined two decades of Euro design.

The great partnership card game: bidding, declarer play and a lifetime of study.

Over six hundred cars and a rally discipline, split across two discs for arcade and simulation.

Three selectable fighting styles per character over a roster in the thirties; the last of the 2D Alphas.

Five power-up costumes and a running commentary of jokes; the last of the 3D Raymans.

One button per limb, eight fighters and eight sub-bosses; Namco answer Virtua Fighter in 1994.

Freestyle Air in the dunk contest and a whole All-Star Weekend to play through.

Norrath in 1999, where dying left your corpse and your gear where you fell and you had to walk back naked; still running.

The first of the series on the PlayStation, and the first squeezed onto a Game Boy.

EA rename their basketball line in 1994 and start counting; the first NBA Live, after the NBA Playoffs games.

Walls and uneven ground in the arenas, which the players disliked enough that Tekken 5 flattened them again.