I bought it because I dug the Vincent Price box!
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Happy Halloween everybody! Julie's working late and the boy doesn't have school tomorrow so he's heading to one of those crazy f...
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(2007) * First of all let me say that as far as I could tell there are absolutely no dead teenagers in this entire film. Every year just ...
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I remember that! Excellent, excellent box.
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?
1) $2
2) Yes
3) Oh God yes
4) ha!
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.
Oh, look at that. Jordan and I left almost the exact same comment at almost the exact same time.
Jinx!
Did they ever come up with Tic Tac Toe? I guess Connect Four...wait I can't see...diagnolly...pretty sneaky sis.
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.
ernest borgnine, as it turns out, is still alive.
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.
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!
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