Another quality which these games seem to have been designed upon is honesty.” Friends to business partners Willingness to make it a part of the family is a big win because traditional games were all about involving family, sharing, and learning to make strategic moves to reach your goal. We aren’t complaining, as long as it is creating awareness and curiosity. Strangely though, Archana says, seeing the work on the games and “the manner in which we display them, many games have been bought to be used for display in homes. Good Old Games is run more with a revivalist mindset than as an indie store. The duo is happy to show visitors around. Hyderabad, Telangana, : (To go in The Hindu Metroplus with Prabalikas special story): Different traditional indian games on display at the store in Hyderabad. Pithoo among others - all a welcome surprise in a time of digitised versions which, frankly, don’t evoke the same satisfaction should you actually win. Paramapada sopana patam (Snakes and Ladders), “Every game we have in our collection involves many hours of labour, to do justice to the minute detailing”. We also take quite some time to meet the purchase order because we are dependent on artisans to give us the final product for delivery,” says Archana.

There are colourful board games that come with intricately carved figurines of birds, animals and humans that are no more than a couple of centimetres in height, meant The light catches the shine of the glossy wooden pieces. The ground floor has been converted to hold as many as 150 games across 30 categories - with sizes varying from hand-held ones to those as big as four-seater dining tables.

Puli joodham the space is a treasure trove of memories from an era gone by.

Archana Reddy and Sangeetha Rajesh’s Good Old Games is, as the name suggests, a mini museum-cum-store of traditional games, from On the other side of the fortress-like walls of plot number 761, Jubilee Hills, is a double-storeyed building that will make even grandparents feel like kids in a candy store.

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