anyone recall that uber-early 90's board game "HEROQUEST?"

Steve · Sep 24, 2003

Man that was the good shit.

I was about 10 or so when my best friend bought it, and I remember him hauling the bulky game to my house on occasion. It was a fun-as-hell game with interesting play technique that at that time I never saw yet.

Most of my friends got into it, and heh, I even remember the questionaire thing that came with the box, and they asked you what suggestions you have so the makers could make a future installment even better.

I remember my friend wrote something like "Use smaller doors."

Great times...

I think on eBay these days HQ commands plenty of Benjamins...

Krev · Sep 24, 2003

They're actually worth something?! Man...I still have all of my box sets. They're pretty worn-out because of over-use...I think the boxes are duct-taped together at the corners.

I remember losing entire weekends to the game without sleep or eating...ahh, the starving of adolescent gamers with cardboard and plastic...

Steve · Sep 25, 2003

Krev said:
They're actually worth something?!

I think so. I haven't checked in eons though. I just remember when I finally wanted to buy one for my own, circa January 95 (I remember cuz my brother would not take me til he watch the 49ers win the 95 SuperBowl, which they did... it was the one where Steve Young ran over that poor media dude in his way haha)

Anyway, Jan. 95 we went to hella places and they were all out... cuz HQ was out of circulation by then, easily. And today, I assume they're pretty hard to find.

I think when I searched some odd 2 years ago on eBay, they went in the 30's or so...

tsukaesugi · Sep 25, 2003

Was this game made by Games Workshop?

If so my brother had a copy as well...

Krev · Sep 25, 2003

Steve said:
... it was the one where Steve Young ran over that poor media dude in his way haha)

I rember that...hilarity ensued.

Games Workshop...yeah, dat be the place. They had the coolest figurines...

mookystains · Sep 25, 2003

was this the game with the warphole things?

The Chief · Sep 25, 2003

Wow, I sure do remember this game. In fact I've got a very nice condition, complete game in my closet here. Got one of the first expansions too. Great game though, good times.

Krev · Sep 25, 2003

mookystains said:
was this the game with the warphole things?

I think that was another game...Dark Dungeons, I think...something like that. My friend had that one.

In addition to almost any other game out there...like Battle Lords or something like that...it had this big yard squared plastic play mat, and there were plastic units and a tower and a cannon and an ogre and a whole bunch of other things...

...damn. He had all the cool toys...

Lagduf · Sep 25, 2003

Heroquest rules. I've played that boardgame many a times with my friends whilst in 7th and 8th grade.

@M · Sep 25, 2003

HeroQuest was the shit - I've still got my boxed set under my bed, but I haven't played it in years. I liked how accessible and simplistic it was compared to something like D&D. My younger brother and I had a lot of fun playing that and making our own, original quests.

One-time, I even used Wad Author of whatever to make the board in 3D using the Heretic Doom engine so I could play Hero Quest in real-time 3D

Ghost-Dog · Sep 25, 2003

I played this as well. It was a nice, easy sub for D&D which we sometimes got burned out on. They made little expansion adventures too, which were remarkably creative. I even went so far as to paint my little plastic figures, and import my other pewter minis as new character classes.

I think my HQ stuff is still up in my mom's attic somewhere, I should dig it out one of these days for the hell of it.

MilkManX · Sep 25, 2003

Yeah I played that when I was 13 or so. My brother and I painted and detailed all of the miniatures. We had the expansions too. It was a fun game. I think we gave it away though sometime in the late 90's to a friend.

kernow · Sep 25, 2003

You know the creator of heroquest just ate mashed potato, then went insane and committed suicide?

Great game though, I wonder what I did with mine.

Krev · Sep 25, 2003

kernow said:
You know the creator of heroquest just ate mashed potato, then went insane and committed suicide?

Great game though, I wonder what I did with mine.

...umm...I thought about maybe digging mine out and giving it a few games for old times sake, but now I don't know if I want to do that...

ZeroMJ · Sep 25, 2003

Wow. I was at my friends house today for band practice and he had a full set lying out. cool.

Krev · Sep 25, 2003

ZeroMJ said:
Wow. I was at my friends house today for band practice and he had a full set lying out. cool.

Just sitting there? For no reason? That's pretty random...

anyone recall that uber-early 90's board game "HEROQUEST?"

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