Spin the wheel of fate and take a drive along the twisting roads families have enjoyed for more than 40 years! Choose a college or career path and start down the road of life, making money and having babies. You’ll have adventure after adventure until you reach retirement. If you reach it first, you get
Spin the wheel of fate and take a drive along the twisting roads families have enjoyed for more than 40 years! Choose a college or career path and start down the road of life, making money and having babies. You’ll have adventure after adventure until you reach retirement. If you reach it first, you get a big chunk of change – and if you’re the wealthiest player in retirement, you win! The Game of Life and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro.
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The Facts of Life My daughter received Life as a birthday present and I was very excited to play, thinking it would bring back great memories! Unfortunally they tried to “improve” on a classic and totally ruined it. The spinner derails on every spin and my daughter can barely get it to go around once. You have to assemble the board everytime and pray you get the houses in the right spots, instead of it being fixed and ready to play like the GOOD version. The people fall out of the cars and are so microscopic, I’m sure the vacuum cleaner will find them before I do. There are these strange “Life” cards that make no sense whatsoever, debunking the whole purpose of earning any real money. There are no gifts from the other players when you get married or have kids. In fact, there’s no reason now to even have kids! That was the whole fun of the game, piling in as many as possible into the car! I will gladly pay more for the “real” version. I guess it’s time…
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Read the Reviews Before You Buy! I wish that I had read some of the reviews before I purchased this one. We had this game when I was a kid and it was one of my favorites. However, I didn’t realize that they had revised the game.I find the new format frustrating and empty. There isn’t as much interaction between players in this one (others don’t have to give you money when you get married, have children, etc.), except for the career spots and those detract from the game – they’re pretty pointless and not true to the real world as we know it.I have to agree with the previous reviewer who found the LIFE cards very annoying. There doesn’t seem to be any hope for the underdog in this version; if you don’t happen to pick a good salary, you won’t win, no matter how many LIFE cards you pick up along the way.I really wish that they had left the game the way it was! I think we’ll go dig up the old one that my husband’s parents have somewhere. That will be more fun!Bottom Line: After…