But more on that later, let’s take this from the top. That sounds like it could be great! I suppose all these experiences and events end up having a profound effect on the game? Along the way you’ll have a career, get married, buy a house and maybe even have kids. The game of life attempts to reduce the human life, from leaving school to retirement, into a board game.
I do recommend the older version (either the 60’s or the 80’s versions) if you can find it second hand or as a re-release and I’m more than willing to bet that this game would still be a good game to give to your kids to play and for that I give it an extra rating point, but unfortunately breaking it out for a game night with your friends might not be the best bet. However, due to the constraints of modern technology I can’t go back and play this version of the game as a child and until I can play it with my own kids, I’m going to have to say playing this game as an adult gamer would be like losing a turn, one big waste of time.
Perhaps it’s more fun when you’re in the 8-13 age bracket, or if you’re playing it with your children. I really wish I could say more for this game, since it is considered a classic, but as the average rating reflects on our beloved … it’s just not that much fun. There are playing cards to represent your job, home, and other actions you can take during the game, play money, tile pieces, a game board with some 3D parts representing buildings and some landscape, a plastic spin wheel. Each player gets a colored minivan with a blue or pink “peg” to represent themselves and then they can add additional pegs for their spouse and children. Now you just end up being not the richest fat cat in the 1%įrom a components stand point, the game’s not all that bad. In the game of life, you could very well end up penniless. Another big change in the game is that you used to be able to wind up “in the poor house”. It basically allows you to play “roulette” by wagering on a number and if that number comes up on the spin you win some money. The only half exciting aspect of this game is the wheel of chance. The new game has removed, in my opinion, one of the most important aspects of the original game… the choice to purchase auto insurance, fire insurance or life insurance so when the bad things of life hit, well… it doesn’t really matter, nothing bad happens in this game anyway. You can easily choose a new career path or go back to college later on in the game. Unfortunately something that has a profound impact on your life in real life bears little to no ramifications on the outcome of the game. You begin the game by making a choice on either college or a career. The game is designed to replicate your life and all it’s twists and turns from your 18th birthday right up until retirement.
So I guess let’s just get the pain over with as quickly as possible so we can get back to something fun.
Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s looking back on things through rose colored glasses, maybe it’s the bevy of changes the game’s undergone since it’s original inception… whatever the reason… the game I recently played was about as thrilling as watching paint dry. This game actually sat in my closet for almost 2 years before even opened it this past Thanksgiving to play with my family and I was really looking forward to rekindling those fond memories of my youth. This comes very difficult to me as I try and find the good in every game I play and own, unfortunately that proved rather difficult. It’s the very version I am reviewing today. Years later, my sister got me the updated version of the game as a gag since she mercilessly brings up my American Idol audition from years back. It’s fitting that I post this review on Christmas as my most vivid memory of this game was from one Christmas morning many many years ago, opening up a wrapped rectangular package, revealing the bright large letters “GAME OF…” I knew exactly what this was having seen commercials for it all year long! I tore off the rest of the paper holding up my new trophy singing loudly into my dad’s video camera “LIFE! THE GAME OF LIFE!” I had played The Game of Life at my grandma’s house a few times and now I had my very own copy! I was so excited to get the Game of Life and I fondly remember playing the game with my siblings and having a blast.
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