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Game of Life | 
| Brand: Hasbro
Category: Toy
List Price: $23.99
Buy Collectible: $8.75
as of 3/11/2010 02:45 CST details
You Save: $15.24 (64%)
New (57) Collectible (32) from $8.75
Seller: mountaintop_books
Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 341
Format: CD
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 9 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 16 x 10.5 x 2.7
Model: 4000
UPC: 032244040009
EAN: 0032244040009
ASIN: B00000IWD7
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Classic board game breaks down an entire lifespan into a series of choices and chance | | • | Earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds | | • | Retire with the biggest fortune | | • | Winner of the CLASSIC Award by Parent's Choice Awards | | • | One of the most popular games in the Family game night category |
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Product Description
In this classic game of fortune, your goal is to dodge bad luck and make a buck. Along the way, you'll also earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds, helping your community, or just taking a break from the rat race! Retire with the biggest fortune, and you'll win! Each space is a different adventure, so you'll get a whole new Life every time you play. What does Life have in store for you' Take a spin and find out! For 2 to 6 players. Game includes: game board, six plastic car pawns, plastic "people pegs", plastic mountains, spinner and bridge, MB money, 25 Life Tiles, deck of 36 cards, insurance policies, bank loans, label sheet and instruction sheet. Color of parts my vary.
Editorial Review
Practice makes perfect in the game of Life. Try marriage, kids, and more. Will you go to college and take out student loans? Or join the working force and collect on payday? Will you go bankrupt, or earn millions in stock and real estate? Anything's possible with a spin of the Life wheel! A classic family game that can be a reality check--or just a fun time. --Margaret Quinn
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 175
 Not the same as the old one.... February 5, 2010
Kailee Erlandsen (Williston, ND USA)
My husband and I ordered this game for our son. We both enjoyed playing the game as children and thought our son would like it as well. We were a little surprised that it had changed some, but 20 years later, we really shouldn't have expected it to be the exact same.
We actually liked the changes. They took us a few rounds to get it down, but we had a blast. Our son is asking us to play the game a lot. He has even taken it to his grandparent's house to play with them!
We also got the game on sale and even with shipping, it was still cheaper than buying at our local Wal-Mart.
So yes, beware, the game has changed, but just because a few people don't like change, doesn't necessarily mean the changes are terrible.
The thing is, if you really want to play with the old rules (ie choose your career vs choosing blindly, spin for gifts vs using the LIFE tiles, etc.) than there is no reason you can't.
 Fun family game January 18, 2010
Muktown Mom (Mukwonago, MI)
Having not had the original game of Life when I was a kid, I had nothing to compare it to. We got this for Christmas and I played it with my 11 yr old and 7 yr old sons. I thought it might be harder for my 7 yr old to follow at first..seemed a little grown up with all the careers, salary, etc. But he caught on and we had a fun game. He loved suing me...twice...
Forever a Classic December 30, 2009
Madison H. Meyer (Green Bay, WI USA)
I bought this game because some friends and I had forgotten how to play. It had been a while, but once receiving the board game, it all came rushing back.
The game lasted a lot longer than I remembered, and all of it's little details are really fun to set up. As a kid I never followed the precise rules, but now as an adult, it's more fun that way!
 Do you really want to teach your children to sue people??? December 26, 2009
A.P. (Wasilla, Alaska)
I was just now setting up this stupid game I got for my 9-yr-old son who asked for it. There are at LEAST 9 spots to land where you're supposed to sue your neighbor and get 100,000. I have a real problem with that. Another is where you get cosmetic surgery...what? I came online to see what alternatives I could come up with and make my own stickers to put over top of the extra bad spots. Definately should have read the reviews. I didn't have this one as a kid, but I can't immagine it being like this.
A cheap "gimmicky" version of the original December 20, 2009
angel.white
First of all, what made the original fun to play, when I was a kid, was imagining being an adult, making all these adult choices, and personalizing whatever mostly random set of experiences the game said we would have.
The game just seems cheap and gimmicky now, like some soulless executive said "make it cost half as much to create, and throw some hooks in to make up for it"
examples:
1. The plastic pieces now fall off the board, we had to fix the spinner several times.
2. The life cards are smaller, give less money (like 10 or 20k instead of 100 or 200k), an ugly yellow colour, and worst of all, don't say what they are for, we used to always read them at the end and ooh/aah/giggle depending on what the card was for, and how well it would fit the person who got it, but now it's just a number
3. The people don't stay in the cars any more, if you pick the car up by the person, they all fall out (this occurred frequently enough that we nicknamed it "Godzillaing"); there are all these cards called "share the wealth" like 30 of them, I think there are as much "share the wealth" cards as all other cards combined, but between the three of us, we only ever got one of these cards.
4. The new one turned the entire thing into an enormous cartoon, every image is cartoony and cheap feeling. The money doesn't look like money, the characters are all childish looking, you can't look at the houses and actually care which one you get, because they all look horrible (okay, the mountain cottage was decent).
5. They added roulette to the game (I kid you not), and built this whole thing around "spin to win" where your kids can learn to gamble.
But it's not all bad, there were some things I liked about it
1. They got rid of trading your salary, which seemed to always go against me.
2. I liked the job raises you could get, and that the salary is now tied to the job instead of a separate card.
Okay, that's pretty much it. Overall, I felt like I was just lining some corporate goon's pockets by buying the game.
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