02/08/2026
Went to a different Goodwill than I normally haunt today and scored a huge win for me! A nearly new looking copy of an old 60s board game I've been hunting for decades!
I grew up playing my brother's hand me down copy of the board game Dogfight, a WW1 game of air combat. It had a couple of parts missing, but it was great fun.
Before we moved out of New Jersey, I found a beat up copy of another game in this Milton Bradley American Heritage Command Decision series, Broadside, a Revolutionary War era game depicting a British fleet trying to take a harbor defended by American ships and shore batteries. Great game but again missing pieces. I didn't care.
I looked over brochures in the box showing the other games in the series, and they looked so cool, but they were so hard to find I'd probably never get to play them. I lost my copies of those in one move or another, but I had resolved one day I'd try and find them all again.
I even had a dream about finding them in a garage sale, and a few months later, discovered and bought the first of my new collection, Hit the Beach, a WW2 island assault game, at GenCon, carrying it home on the plane in an oversized suitcase from Indianapolis.
Today I find this copy of Battle-Cry at Goodwill for $5.99! (I actually paid less than that because we had other things- 20% off baby!) This is in such great shape it's almost like it fell through a wormhole from 1975 and on top of a pile of puzzles and games in the children's section.
I snatched that thing up so fast like I'd just found gold in them thar hills! Maybe boring to most folks, and not a great game by modern standards, but a really exciting thing for me.
