| Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s | User Reviews Send this to a friend | | Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s | | |  | | Manufacturer: Hasbro | | Customer Rating: | | | List Price: $39.99 | | Sale Price: $34.88 | | Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | | Buy Now |
| | | Product Description | | Product Details | - 2400 trivia questions in six categories
- Cool retro packaging and questions written in a flashback tone
- Includes 4 collectible tokens based on 80's icons
- For 2 to 4 players or teams.
| Video Reviews |  No video reviews found for this product. | Customer Reviews |  Totally Awesome! | | Review Date: December 28, 2006 | | Reviewer: Janet Boyer, Pennsylvania | As Christmas was fast approaching, I hinted rather forcefully to my husband, expressing my great desire for owning Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's. To my great delight, he got it for me as a present. YAY!
But what good is it to have a game and no one to play with? See, I tend to clean up when it comes to Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition and, alas, no one will play with me! However, my husband agreed that he would, indeed, play the 80's version with me, especially since we were in the midst of this glorious decade from the ages of 10-19.
Can you believe that my rascally husband beat the pants off me the first time we played it?! The reason I mention this is because I feel that the 80's version of Trivial Pursuit will appeal to anyone who loves the decade of decadence, even if they aren't trivia (or board game) enthusiasts like my husband.
Not surprisingly, the packaging is excessive: rather than include the four stacks of cards in the questions box, they are individually nestled. There are four decorative game pieces straight from the 80's: a caramel colored Care Bear with a red and pink heart on its stomach, an old fashioned computer, a CD, and a purple Mead Trapper Keeper (OMG, remember those?!). The board is formatted like the Genus Edition, except this one has wild fluorescent colors and different categories. Game play, however, is exactly the same: work your way around the six category "stations" to earn colored "pie slices", then enter the center hub on an exact count--answering, correctly, a question chosen from the category of the opponents choice.
The six categories are:
* Blue - Headlines
* Pink - Television
* Yellow - Movies
* Purple - Music
* Green - Sports and Leisure
* Orange - Wild Card
Deciding to make Sports and Leisure green for the 80's edition was a bit confusing, at first, since the Genus edition has this category as orange! You'd think they'd make Sports and Leisure orange and the Wild Card category green...
My husband and I had a BLAST playing Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's. I couldn't BELIEVE it when he got a Music question asking "Which Rush frontman..." Because I'm a rabid Rush fan, even dragging my husband to the 30th anniversary concert, he knew it was Geddy Lee right away! Too funny!
Here are a few of the questions found in the 80's edition:
Headlines: "What automaker confessed to selling 40 cars damaged in test drives as new, in 1987?"
Television: "What surname did the Growing Pains family get, to honor a Mets pitching ace?"
Movies: "What pro wrestler played the grizzled commando in Predator armed with a hand-held helicopter minigun he called `Old Painless'?"
Music: "What four country legends toured together as the Highwaymen?"
Sports and Leisure: "What was the only team to win two World Series during the 1980's?"
Wild Card: "What 1988 novel told the tale of two Indian actors transformed to look like an angel and a devil?"
If you love the 80's, the Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's game is lively, fun, and, at times, totally hilarious! Not only that, you'll learn something, too! |
Refreshing Change | | Review Date: January 9, 2007 | | Reviewer: S. Jones, Oklahoma | I love trivia games and trivial pursuit in particular, but this version is a great addition. I wasnt fond of the DVD versions and The prior 80's version released in the 90's sucked, but this one is AWESOME!!!!
We got it for Christmas and played 4 times between Christmas and new year and the new game pieces for this version are a brilliant addition.
LOVE IT!!!!
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80's fans | | Review Date: January 9, 2007 | | Reviewer: Lisa M. Ellsworth, California | | If you are a huge fan of the 80's, or were there, this is the game for you! |
Fun for the ultimate 80's fan! | | Review Date: January 10, 2007 | | Reviewer: S. Smith, Virginia | | Great game and really jogs your memory of things that happened in the 80's! |
A Blast From The Past | | Review Date: January 13, 2007 | | Reviewer: Jeffrey T. Munson, Dixon, IL | This great game takes you back to the 80s with lots of fun and challenging trivia questions. The game pieces even remind you of the 80s. They include a Trapper Keeper notebook, a Care Bear, an IBM Personal Computer, and a 33 rpm phonograph record. The questions deal with movies, sports, television, music, and headlines.
The format is the same as the original Trivial Pursuit game. Each player must answer a question from each category and obtain a corresponding pie piece to put in their game piece. The winner is the person who answers a question from each category correctly. A box of questions dealing with events from the 80s is included. The only drawback to the gamne is that there is only one box of questions. I would have liked to have seen a second box included.
I give this fun and nostalgic game my highest recommendation. My wife purchased this game for me as a Christmas gift, and we've both enjoyed re-living the great decade of the 80s. It is loads of fun for two, three, or four players. If you're a fan of 80s trivia, then you'll love this fun-filled game. (Hint: when in doubt, answer "Ronald Reagan" in the headlines category!) |
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