I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who did and I’ve brought this up at parties before.
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.
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?
Yeah, me and my cousins kept mousetrap working for an entire summer back in the eighties. I liked it a lot, but as others have said, it was beyond janky. It was the idea I liked tbh.
Operation, I had forgotten there were cards at all lol.
Man I’m so fuckin glad you asked. We did! I’m not sure if we played the rules properly but I def remember trying.
I think we were missing pieces to this one and were bummed about it though
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…
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.
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.
