What board games would you combine?
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greybeta[As a side note, this is copy and pasted directly from the Facebook note of one of my friends. I'm doing this in lieu of a Friday Five poll.]
This happened a while ago, but I just remembered it, so I'm writing it down.
My friend and I were talking about how today's board games were really dumb compared to the ones we had and how they must be running out of ideas. Suddenly, we both got the same inspiration that must have hit the creators of "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones": why not combine games to make new ones!?! Some terrifying results came to light:
1) Operation-Don't Wake Daddy - the best part is thinking about the graphics on the box. You have the sneaking kids going "shoosh" and holding their fingers to their mouths, but instead of sneaking off for a minute snack, they're pulling out dad's kidney while he's passed out on the couch.
2) Monopocandyland - this game, despite it's name, is developed not so much as a mix between the board game classic and the easiest game ever, but rather as a game so complicated and detailed that actual play is almost impossible to occur. Personally, my favorite part was when we decided give each side of the board a "land" name: Chocotown, Skittleville, Cinnamonburg, and the Ukraine.
3) Limbo Chicken Clue - we have no idea how this game is played, but we know exactly what the box would say: "The chicken is dead! Can you limbo your way through this mystery!?"
4) Shoots and Life - basically Life, but in the ghetto.
5) SORRY and anything - just have kids in the damn commercial say "Sorry!" and smile whenever they do anything. God I hate SORRY.
What board games would you combine? How would they play? What would the advertising look and/or sound like?
This happened a while ago, but I just remembered it, so I'm writing it down.
My friend and I were talking about how today's board games were really dumb compared to the ones we had and how they must be running out of ideas. Suddenly, we both got the same inspiration that must have hit the creators of "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones": why not combine games to make new ones!?! Some terrifying results came to light:
1) Operation-Don't Wake Daddy - the best part is thinking about the graphics on the box. You have the sneaking kids going "shoosh" and holding their fingers to their mouths, but instead of sneaking off for a minute snack, they're pulling out dad's kidney while he's passed out on the couch.
2) Monopocandyland - this game, despite it's name, is developed not so much as a mix between the board game classic and the easiest game ever, but rather as a game so complicated and detailed that actual play is almost impossible to occur. Personally, my favorite part was when we decided give each side of the board a "land" name: Chocotown, Skittleville, Cinnamonburg, and the Ukraine.
3) Limbo Chicken Clue - we have no idea how this game is played, but we know exactly what the box would say: "The chicken is dead! Can you limbo your way through this mystery!?"
4) Shoots and Life - basically Life, but in the ghetto.
5) SORRY and anything - just have kids in the damn commercial say "Sorry!" and smile whenever they do anything. God I hate SORRY.
What board games would you combine? How would they play? What would the advertising look and/or sound like?
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