Have you ever just had a flashback to your childhood and a particularly happy memory floods your brain, joy wells in your heart and you wish you could relive those moments? And then, you remember that you have kids and it’s the Christmas season and you could totally buy them what it was that made you happy? And then, with any luck, they might like it, too?

This morning, on my way to work, I felt a sudden nostalgia for a game I’d played endlessly as a kid.

Milton Bradley’s HeroQuest was part RPG, part boardgame, and all awesome.

For those who never played, the game is basically a boardgame version of Gauntlet, a barbarian, a dwarf, a wizard, and an elf are questing through dungeons, looking for treasure and avoiding traps. Four players take on each persona, a fifth acts as the game master and works his hardest to kill the heroes. Mummies, zombies, orcs, and other various creatures were set out against you, wave after wave, and you had to survive.

I absolutely loved playing with my siblings and my friends and decided that I’d love to recreate that experience with my kids.

I didn’t have the game (never did, a friend of mine owned it, why would we ever both need a set?) and so I set out to look for it online and in time for Christmas.

Now, I have to say, by this point I was pitched into a nostalgic frenzy, reminiscing about the great times I had playing it and imagining how fun it would be to take my kids and maybe a couple of their friends on that same journey. I’d get to relive it, they’d get to experience, it’s a win-win for everybody, right?

Well… HeroQuest is LONG out of print. I mean, it hasn’t been in print for almost 20 years. And yes, they stopped production in the 90s. (Man, I feel old.)

Amazon had it, though. For $400.

Not one to give up so easy, I looked elsewhere. $400 for a brand new box was starting to sound like a reasonable price. But, finally, I found it for a fraction of that price AND with an expansion pack that I’d never played as a kid.

Win.

It’s set to arrive next week and I’ve already decided it’s what my kids will open for their Christmas Eve present (it’s an old family tradition to open a family game and new pajamas the night before Christmas). And we’ll play…

Will it be worth the price I paid?

Most certainly.

But I want to hear from you guys, too. Is there anything from your youth that you would just LOVE to get for your kids and their enjoyment? And how much would you pay for it?