I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who did and I’ve brought this up at parties before.
How would you even play operation without the cards? How is it scored, who wins?
This is how we played it: you take out as many organs as you can until you are buzzed and then it’s the next player’s turn. When you run out of organs, the player with the most wins.
I mean the fun part was just trying to get them out anyway.
that’s how I played it as well, didn’t even know what the cards were mean’t for
As someone who has absolutely no clue what this game is about, reading this comment was very confusing.
Just looking at a picture should clear it up:
In…teresting…
It’s a microcosm of the American healthcare system. It’s cheaper and safer to let children perform surgery with tweezers.
I love how every ties back into American politics
You know how when someone lives in a country and is severely negatively affected by its policies, they feel justified in talking about it?
I know it’s very strange that humans talk about things that are actively harming them, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out someday.
We did, for both games, although we didn’t play Operation much. It kind of lost its novelty fast, especially with the buzzer the TV commercials conveniently left out.
We played a lot of Mouse Trap, though. Everyone complaining about the trap not working half the time seems to have missed that that was the point. You might land in the trap zone and have one of your siblings get the chance to trap, but it wasn’t a guarantee that you’d be trapped. If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building? At that point it’s just a game with an instant lose square. If the trap worked or failed you needed to reset it for the next attempt, and as part of that reset you could adjust or fix any parts that had failed. Or maybe try to subtly sabotage it again if you’re worried you might be next…
If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building?
To see the little man get flipped into the pool. Duh.
Everyone who owned Mouse Trap played it properly once, learned that the game itself was fucking lame, and then just proceeded to fuck around with the contraption part.
I prefer Antimonopoly.
It’s a real game, look it up.
I remember we had that when I was a kid with all the other family board games, but I don’t remember anyone ever playing it.
I love how Wikipedia says the idea for anti-monopoly goes back to The Landlord’s Game, which is what became Monopoly in the first place. 🤣
Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages. People going bankrupt faster is a positive.
Alternate Free Parking rule for faster gameplay: Landing on Free Parking immediately bankrupts the player. This rule is called “Expensive Parking.”
IMO, the “free parking rule” is necessary for a healthy game of Monopoly. Otherwise, the game will drag on for hours with players just slowly whittling away at each other’s properties until eventually everybody has been completely bled out.
However, that’s an intentional part of the game design; the original Monopoly was meant to showcase just how agonizing unchecked capitalistic greed can be, so games that run a long time with Pyrrhic victories are completely intended. But if you’ve got a life to live, you need to play with a few house rules to speed things along.
The Mousetrap game was janky and barely worked. I don’t know if our Operation board still had cards by the time it got to me. I was the third, so… Mousetrap was new when I was a kid, so that came to me new in the box.
Mousetrap was lit, hell yeah
Sadly, I never learned any of those games. I was an only child that had nobody to teach me any of those sort of games as a kid.
I remember my parents bought me Chutes and Ladders when I was 5, apparently nobody realized it’s meant as a multiplayer game. Trying to figure it out for myself, I got bored in like 10 minutes.
Monopoly? Go Fish? UNO? Hah, not a chance, nobody bothered to teach me any of those.
Oof, they bought you chutes and ladders (snakes and ladders where I grew up, I guess chutes makes a lot more sense) and never even played it with you…? Damn. I’m sorry
Mousetrap was the shit until I lost the blue mouse and half the traps
Oh I loved it, but I don’t know anyone who did anything but put it together and trigger it. And they went to the trouble of making a whole game around it that I’ve never met anyone who has ever played.
I played both.
Yeah I had Mousetrap, and as others said it barely worked which sucked a lot of the fun out of it. Also don’t remember there being cards in Operation, was it just to determine which body part you’re supposed to remove or did they do something else?
Each player gets a hand of “specialist” cards at the start. Each turn a player draws a “doctor” card and attempts to retrieve the part on the card and if they are successful are awarded the money listed on the card. If they aren’t successful the player who has the specialist card gets to attempt it and wins the (larger) sum of money listed on the specialist card. In some versions of the game, there air no “specialist” cards, only “doctor” cards
I don’t get this complaint. What didn’t work? It always worked 100% for me.
Maybe they improved quality control at some point (or decreased it before my time, idk), but as I recall, the issues were mostly with some of the later contraptions, like the diving board, the diver going into the tub, and the final cage itself.
My version was from the '80s, fwiw.
Yeah they probably got crappier with time, mine was likely from the 90s
I’m guessing it’s the reverse- quality control got less over time. The Mousetrap I’ve seen recently looks much crappier than the one we had, which was from the 70s. Which is weird since it’s just plastic.
Many, many times, yes. We always used the cards for Operation and played Mousetrap quite a bit when I was little.
Yes we played the Mousetrap board game as kids. It was quite fun to be fair, even just playing with the mechanics solo was fun.
I’ve played both but every copy of mouse trap I’ve ever had either didn’t work or worked very shittily. Massive disappointment all the way around
Of course, we played the crap out of those games when they first came out. Back then kids didn’t have ALL THE STUFF, games like that were coveted
I don’t know what back then means. I grew up in the 80s and we just never did either. Mousetrap was awesome because it was this complicated machine, but triggering it was the fun part, so that’s all we ever did. And Operation, you just went for the one you thought you could get.
Well, you were poorly a disciplined child 😂
My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.
I didn’t know Operation has cards…
I’m the reverse of you actually, as a child it never occurred to me that you could just build the mouse trap without playing the game. So I exclusively played it properly and now I feel a bit stupid.
