1) How much did you pay? 2) Does it have all the pieces? 3) Is it just a glorified version of the game that you can play with a pen and paper? 4) Were the legs included?
3) Is it just a glorified version of the game that you can play with a pen and paper?
Parker Brothers are masters of that! It's one of my favorite pre-video-games tricks. You're paying $14 for cardboard! (And some plastic discs...don't forget the assortment of plastic discs they always deign to include.)
Glorified? Make that "official." Battleship can be played with graph paper, but it's way better when you've got red and blue plastic contraptions for each player to hide their stuff behind, and also little plastic pieces.
I love that photograph. Obviously they went to some pre-existing Old West set. The anachronistic game pieces in the foreground just endear it more.
Tic Tac Toe would be the ultimate, I agree. What would you need? A big laminated square board and some plastic "X" and "O" pieces.
"Connect Four" is, obviously, a harder game. (And the plastic structure changes the gameplay, so you can't play "Connect Four" with a piece of paper and two pencils unless you, like, agree to follow the rules or something crazy like that.
that reminds me of the hollywood squares game set that we bought in '83. it came with a large cardboard cut-out of a grid and also with the actual stars from the game show.
we stopped playing it after nintendo came out and completely forgot about it until 1989 when we noticed an awful smell coming from the game cabinet. turns out thurston howell had died a few weeks earlier.
SCTV had the "home version" of Hollywood squares (I think it was that game). Rick Moranis and Catherine O'Hara spend weeks building it. It goes through the living room ceiling and into the kids' room; the kids complain.
"I picked this up at a garage sale the other day"
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I remember that! Excellent, excellent box.
May 15, 2007 9:47 AM
Nice grab. Questions:
1) How much did you pay?
2) Does it have all the pieces?
3) Is it just a glorified version of the game that you can play with a pen and paper?
4) Were the legs included?
May 15, 2007 9:47 AM
1) $2
2) Yes
3) Oh God yes
4) ha!
May 15, 2007 9:56 AM
3) Is it just a glorified version of the game that you can play with a pen and paper?
Parker Brothers are masters of that! It's one of my favorite pre-video-games tricks. You're paying $14 for cardboard! (And some plastic discs...don't forget the assortment of plastic discs they always deign to include.)
May 15, 2007 10:09 AM
Glorified? Make that "official." Battleship can be played with graph paper, but it's way better when you've got red and blue plastic contraptions for each player to hide their stuff behind, and also little plastic pieces.
I love that photograph. Obviously they went to some pre-existing Old West set. The anachronistic game pieces in the foreground just endear it more.
May 15, 2007 10:12 AM
Oh, look at that. Jordan and I left almost the exact same comment at almost the exact same time.
Jinx!
May 15, 2007 10:13 AM
Did they ever come up with Tic Tac Toe? I guess Connect Four...wait I can't see...diagnolly...pretty sneaky sis.
May 15, 2007 10:42 AM
Tic Tac Toe would be the ultimate, I agree. What would you need? A big laminated square board and some plastic "X" and "O" pieces.
"Connect Four" is, obviously, a harder game. (And the plastic structure changes the gameplay, so you can't play "Connect Four" with a piece of paper and two pencils unless you, like, agree to follow the rules or something crazy like that.
May 15, 2007 10:50 AM
that reminds me of the hollywood squares game set that we bought in '83. it came with a large cardboard cut-out of a grid and also with the actual stars from the game show.
we stopped playing it after nintendo came out and completely forgot about it until 1989 when we noticed an awful smell coming from the game cabinet. turns out thurston howell had died a few weeks earlier.
ernest borgnine, as it turns out, is still alive.
May 15, 2007 11:06 AM
SCTV had the "home version" of Hollywood squares (I think it was that game). Rick Moranis and Catherine O'Hara spend weeks building it. It goes through the living room ceiling and into the kids' room; the kids complain.
May 15, 2007 11:09 AM
Good old SCTV!
One thing I love about the blog is that I never know what's going to generate discussion. I knew I was onto something when I bought this damn game!
May 15, 2007 11:16 AM