Was there ever a better game to play with a group of friends back in "the day" than Trivial Pursuit? You could even team up if you had a lot of friends. Heck, you could even easily make special rules if the playing field wasn't level enough. Man, I miss playing game after game of Trivial Pursuit, proving that I was both the smartest and dumbest person alive (I once, infamously, shouted "IWO JIMA!" at a question. I don't even think the question was about WWII).
Now games are all needlessly interactive. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty damn cool, but I didn't need all the DVD stuff to keep me interested. That's all bells and whistles as far as I'm concerned. Just give me a wheel spoke looking board, round playing pieces, and a bunch of pie shaped wedges indicating how damn smart you are (or not, depending on how many you've earned) and I'm a happy camper. Hell, just sitting there with the question and answer cards and firing them off was totally cool in my book.
I totally loved the rule changes though. Pressed for time? Any correct answer would get you a pie piece. You rule and everyone else sucks? They get a pie piece anytime, you have to hit the spoke ends. Or they could pick any category they wanted on any pie piece try. Man, it was almost infinitely customizable. Especially since there are probably a trillion different subject sets of questions.
Not to mention the name was awesome. Double meaning FTW! (for the win for you ungeeky)
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Other games that are just as good as Trivial Pursuit are Life, Clue, and Risk. Classics. Monopoly is good but usually only if you have a lot of time to waste-and being pleasantly intoxicated works too!
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I got bored easily with Life, liked the movie Clue way more than the game for some reason, and (which generally shocks my friends given my overall geekiness) never played Risk.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right, Monopoly was a huuuuuuuge time waster.
The movie clue is one of my all-time favorites. I had the VCR edition of the game when I was a kid, liked that a lot.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am *very* proud to admit that I am the reining 80s edition Trivial Persuit Chamption of the WORLD! (well... that is if the world consists of my cousin's living room and the only inhabitants are myself, her and her husband....)