Americans were obsess with spy culture during the Cold War . I intend , who did n’t love James Bond ? commie , that ’s who . The gosh shit Communits . spotting seeped into every face of pop culture in the 1960s and 70s — from TV and movies to comic books and even board game .
Below we have a ingathering of ten board games that let people of the Cold War earned run average bet out their wildest undercover agent fantasy . Provided those spy fantasies involved some dice and maybe a pair of goofy decoder spyglass .
Undercover: The Game of Secret Agents (1960)
In Undercover : The Game of Secret Agents , players went behind enemy dividing line to scotch their enemy , equip with a high - techpair of goggles . The red tinge specification allow musician to read mysterious inscribe messages and find a means of escape from the ambiguously limit opposition . It may not have been explicitly about the Soviets , but Americans knew the score .
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Spy Detector (1963)
Spy Detector was an off - shoot of Mattel ’s incredibly popular Lie Detector game . Both include a spicy plastic gizmo that players would use to determine if the lineament they were investigating were who they said they were . According toBoard Game Geek , the Spy Detector rendering , ( which was really just Lie Detector with slightly dissimilar characters and cards ) , did n’t sell nearly as well as prevarication sensing element , which would get reboots over the years into the 1980s .
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James Bond 007 Secret Agent (1965)
There ’s likely no fictitious undercover agent in history more famous than James Bond . So naturally , Bond had his face plaster on everything — including this 1965 version of a 007 private agent game by Milton Bradley .
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1965)
Though for the most part forget in popping civilisation today , The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a huge maven on television in the sixties . The biz itself was reportedly a pretty standard “ roll and move ” game . Do n’t worry if you ’re not familiar with this series because soon you ’ll see it everywhere . Hollywood is rebooting the characters this summer with anew filmdirected by Guy Ritchie . Even here in the early twenty-first 100 we ca n’t seem to get enough Cold War nostalgia .
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Spy Ring (1965)
Created by British plank secret plan company Waddington ’s , Spy Ring was a furor classical game in the UK where players snooped around the panel pull in secrets . Spy Ring was so pop that it would get an update in the 1970s and anotherreboot in the 1980s .
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Mission Impossible (1966)
Much like James Bond , Mission Impossible was a major franchise to come out from the Cold War era . And the 1966 version of the game was an fabulously tame ( and probably painfully deadening ) “ roll and move ” where histrion started in one of four corners . You would n’t misidentify yourself for a undercover agent in this one .
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Super Spy (1971)
The 1971 board biz Super Spy had players make their way across the board without trigger an dismay , Operation - style . The secret plan use up two 500 batteries and even without having actually wreak it , looks like it was either really cool or really dumb . There ’s no in between here .
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Project CIA and Project KGB (1973)
In Project CIA , player had to make their way through a edifice while accumulate envelopes and put off detection from security . The game was a familiar to Project KGB and sometimes sold together in a super pack . Unlike the CIA interpretation , the Project KGB secret plan require hunt down a breakwater or work as a three-fold agent .
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Conspiracy (1973)
Milton Bradley ’s 1973 board game Conspiracy hinged on your power to bribe . thespian start with $ 10,000 and had to give off spies to hoard mystery . The magic trick was in bluff out your way through so that the other players could n’t tell which descry you ’d paid off , and make certain the spy you had pay were dependable off thanks to your largesse , and not being pay off by the other players .
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Microdot (1975)
The 1975 control panel biz Microdot was a turn like a game of seizure the flag . The German version of the biz appears above , thoroughgoing with a badass photo of super cool espionage - based high jinx . If you played this game you might as well have been a spy because seriously that box back alone is the coolest thing to ever appear on anything ever .
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