They're meant for kids, but sometimes I wonder if even they enjoy these dull gaming concoctions.
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Clue
Jr.:
When I was young, I played regular Clue. (My mother used to torture me
with the cards in a way that has scarred me for life, but that's
another story.) Clue Jr. is actually more complicated, and also less
satisfying.
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The
Game of Life:
If actual life were as dull as the Game of Life, our nation's suicide
rate would quadruple. You spin. You move. You do what the space says.
You spin. You move. You do what the space says…Hm. Maybe it is like
real life. Only much more boring. |
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Candy
Land:
With little children, this is fine. But once they can string a sentence
together – "Candy Land sucks, can we play something else?" for example
– it should be time to move on. |
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Monopoly
Jr.:
What, pray tell, is wrong with regular Monopoly? They even make
different versions now in order to satisfy even the most media-addled
brain: Star Wars Monopoly, Your-Favorite-Sports-Team Monopoly, Marvel
Super Heroes Monopoly. In Monopoly Jr., you build lemonade stands,
presumably because hotels are too complex a concept for young minds. In
our house, my youngest seems to have lost the game board for this one,
so he and his older brother were "making rain" with the lemonade stand
pieces. That seems like a better use of them. (I skipped an explanation
that in the rap world, "making it rain" has a slightly
different meaning.) |
There are probably more, but I have to get back to a marathon 'Clue Jr.' session. Isn't it time for school to start?
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