Rod hockey! Wow, I had forgotten about that, but it is truly a great “table top” game. Might not be so well known outside of Canada. On a similar theme, how many others played football by sliding a coin across the desk in school until the teacher came and took it away from you?
Recently I have been playing some Magic! It is an unusual card game that is quite good.
I play board or war games most weeks. I play a lot of 'german' style games with friends socially present Favorites are:
Ursuppe
Bausack
Apples to Apples
Settlers
Carcoissarne (however spelt)
Robo Rally
Falling
Perudo
I have introduced many non-game players to these. They are all great games I can reccomend.
I am a member of a large games club in SW London (60+ members). More seriously I tend to play:
Babylon 5 Wars
Bridge
SFB
DBM
Go
I also have high hopes for Fleet Action 2
For roleplaying I used to play GURPS but now I am dedicated to FUDGE. Not only is it a superb game, it is shareware!
As a note, I only tend to play computer games that use the screen as a board for multiplayer interaction like SE4. I do not tend to play computuer-computer games. I play: