We know this blog probably hasn’t been your cheeriest news source of late—at least, not if you care about what’s going on in the Gulf—but here’s a bit of offbeat news related to BP and offshore ...

Offshore Oil Strike is a genuine BP-endorsed board game from the 1970s, in which players manage an offshore drilling operation. Hazard cards hinder gamers with clean-up costs and rig explosions. It’d ...

Aged cardboard, bent cards and missing pieces—telltale signs of beloved old board games. They might sit on our shelves collecting dust, but vintage board games are rich in history, and some classics ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Profit Farming, a board game found in the collections of the museum's Division of Home and Community Life, is one such example. Produced in 1979 ...

"The only things missing" from this game, says Jane Wells in CNBC, "are artistic renderings of dead pelicans and oil billowing out of the ocean floor." From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good ...

Nightmare, also known as Atmosfear, was a revolutionary board game, which gave many children who grew up playing it in the ...

Axis & Allies is a series of World War II strategy board games that were first designed in the late 1970s by Larry Harris. Later on, the game received many editions and revisions as well spin-offs. In ...

Offshore Oil Strike is a genuine BP-endorsed board game from the 1970s, in which players manage an offshore drilling operation. Hazard cards hinder gamers with clean-up costs and rig explosions. It’d ...