The screen-free pitch to 6-8+ year olds can't be nostalgia — it has to compete on actual fun. These games win on their merits: social energy, real stakes, strategy, and laughter.
Screen-free games survive contact with modern children only if they're genuinely good — and these are: tested by generations, powered by the things screens do worst (physical chaos, face-to-face bluffing, family-specific hilarity).