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Playin' it old skool!
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To get you warmed up, it all begins with a Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's TV question. After that it's all downhill as Josh and Tyler yank gold records, hungry sharks and rodent traps from their dusty memory banks. Gen X was raised on board games and we are no exception. So what was your favourite rainy Saturday pastime? Were you a Monopoly mogul? Married with children in a tiny plastic car? Or a Pikachu master that never once played the game? Head to https://www.speakpipe.com/GenX4LifePodcast to leave a message that we might add to a future podcast! Until then, keep it Yabba Zonkers Zoinks!
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Introduction and Podcast Theme
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So from Trivial Pursuit Totally 80s, your TV question is, which Love Boat character was surprised to find he had a love child named Vicky?
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So if you know the answer, awesome. Go check out our social media. Let me know what you think the answer is. And in about a week or so, I'm going to post the answer to social media. So if you don't know the answer to that question, you can certainly find out then.
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Hey, don't turn that channel. You've reached Yabba Sucker's Wings, the Saturday morning podcast where your host, Josh Downing, now that's me, will take you on a trip through a Gen X Saturday morning of cereal, toys, cartoons, and so much more.
00:00:43
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So grab your honeycombs and your favorite Micronaut and sit back and enjoy. Okay, so welcome back listeners. So excited to have you back on this beautiful Saturday morning, which is really just a Saturday night.
00:00:57
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But that's the whole theater of podcasting. We can do this whenever we want and then just tell you what day it is. So welcome back Saturday morning. Really happy to have you. ah Hope you've been enjoying the sessions and hopefully you subscribed.
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um and You know what, I've got my um ah speak pipe. out on my social media. So if you've got a short message, you know, please go click that link and send me a short message.
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What's your favorite toy? What's your favorite outdoor thing? What's your, what was your favorite bike story? You got a like a minute and a half to tell me a story. So please go check that on social media. My name's Josh Downing. I'm your host.
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And I'm here today, as always, with my buddy, Tyler.
Nostalgic Board Games Discussion
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Say hey, Tyler. rush Hi, Tyler. So literal. And you know what we're going to talk about today?
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No, I don't. Awesome. Here we go, everybody. i don't either. So we're just going to wait. it No, actually, you know what? but This episode's called Playing at Old School. So we're going to be talking about board games.
00:01:59
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Okay. Because we love board games. Well, do. i don't know if you do. I do. But God, of course, there's history there. So here we go. up so okay. My first question is, what was the last board game you played? It might have been the Game of Life.
00:02:16
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Haunted Mansion edition in your kitchen with my friends, Martina and George. No way. I think so. So what year is that? 2019? Yeah. Yeah. That's ah before COVID. Yeah.
00:02:31
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what yeah it was a while ago. Wow. It's funny because um I was thinking about that. I'm like, well, maybe that was the last time I played. And like, no, that's not true. um ah We just played Boggle like a week ago.
00:02:43
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oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And it's the deluxe boggle with the extra letters. There's no extra letters. There's extra letters. exactly What language is it?
00:02:55
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It's an alien alien language, and there's like 82 letters or something. I don't know. Oh, God. I can barely handle R for that. yeah No, seriously. So that was fun. But it's funny, too, because um my family plays card games and I miss playing card games because I enjoy them.
00:03:14
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So anytime they're here or I'm visiting out west, I get so excited. my Mom just gets out her crib board and we'll just sit and play. No way. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of fun.
00:03:24
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For cash. Do you shake her down? Yeah, totally. And then she feeds Good ah we take it to the superstore and we buy groceries. So very good. Yeah. So, yeah, so I, I've always sort of had games around. i've been a game collector for a long time, but not as long as the, the early Egyptians. Cause you know, the first game from around 3,100 Yeah.
00:03:52
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And that's not as like BC as in British Columbia. That's like before Christ BC. I'm waiting for you to say, do you know the name of the game? And I'm going to play something, something the Nile. You're in denial. Yeah, exactly. No, it's actually called Senate.
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And it's kind of a it's kind of a game on a board or a rock or a piece of wood or something. Yeah. And, uh, which was the style at the time. Totally. it was all the rage to play with clay, little clay coins and wood sticks.
00:04:22
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Bones. and Oh, bones came up. There was bones for sure. would be. Yeah. historic vc There was a game that was made of these sort of dice that were made out of bones.
00:04:35
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But yeah, games have burned around a long time. And I didn't realize that they were so integral to, you know, ah politics and religion. And, you know, some of these games were about, you know, following your soul through life to death.
00:04:50
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Are they in every culture? like Does every culture have a history? Yeah, they're in all the cultures. um Egypt was pretty big. They were some of the earliest ones. They also had a game called, ah in in our modern times, we would have called it 20 Squares.
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And it's kind of, I guess, like a chess game. Wait, didn't they have the $20,000 pyramid? They did. oh my God, that was so good. That's going to get one of these.
00:05:17
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I'm so honored. It's a thing i remembered I had that trombone sitting on my desk. Yeah, yeah, exactly. yeah You hit the microphone each time you take it out.
00:05:29
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Yeah, don't don't. Oh, my God. Yeah. So that's really cool. and It's funny, too, because one of the oldest games. um is Parcheesi, which I knew as Parcheesi when I was a kid.
00:05:43
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And I loved that game. It was very colorful and it was very complicated looking, but it was a fun game. I just enjoyed playing it. And it came with drink coasters. It was a drink coaster.
00:05:56
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You had to just try to move your coaster around the table and catch all the the drink marks from mom and dad's rye in seven. Yeah, it's really cool. there's There's a lot of really cool games. and they they I mean, I didn't realize they were quite so old.
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um So
Childhood Game Memories
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tell me, what what was your favorite game? Did you have games when you were kid? Oh, God. Get that womp, womp, womp. Oh, here we go. Okay.
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perfect yes so the segue reminder that i'm an only child and so board games seem to just keep coming into the house and im like and who are these for i had one neighbor on the street who always bought me whatever the best game was that year you know at christmas and it's like okay well god bless you and into the cupboard it goes because you know my parents aren't going to play with me i don't mean like that but know what i mean um but i loved i actually really loved the star wars movie game when i was on the way yeah i really enjoyed that game there was a winnie the pooh game board game that i really loved
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I loved Ants in the Pants. do you remember that? Yeah, I love that. And I'm trying to quickly think. i had the Scooby-Doo game, so of course that was incredible. And the joke was my mom couldn't stand the game because she always wound up in the dungeon.
00:07:23
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yeah every single time we played without fail of course oh and kerplunk yes and then i'd have to take it to my parents and say set it up again set it up again and then i frantically pull out all the sticks you know they didn't like that game but i loved it so that was one of those like prized coveted games because it had so many commercials it was i was just gonna say yeah yeah And we never had it, but my my uncle did, and we were always over there.
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So he had a lot of the coolest games. Like he had Break the Ice or Don't Break the Ice. I think I had that. I like that. yeah he had He had Hands Down. Oh, I remember the name. mentioned like yellow Four hands, one in each color, and you'd play a gray ah card, and then everybody had to slap it to steal the card or something.
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Quick before my smoke goes out. Exactly. He had Kerplunk. Yeah. So he had all the cool games. I think he had, um what's the stress game that you set the timer and you got to get all, perfection. Perfection. Yeah. perfection yeah I didn't have that.
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No, I didn't either, but he did. So we loved going over there to play with ah to play with all his board games because he had the cool ones. Do you know what the retails were on those things back in the day? You know, when I started to buy games when I was a little bit older with my paper route money, um i think I was paying...
00:08:48
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like maybe five or $6 a game, but I could be wrong. But also too, that's expensive. we we used to, we used to buy a lot of our stuff, um, across the border. Yeah. So, um, they weren't exactly the same price, but yeah, I would probably say like five 99 or six 99.
00:09:06
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the cool thing like board games were so beautiful right that giant colored board and you know all the unique pieces because usually they put some effort into it back in the day because even all the licensed ones like the amazing chan clan game and the funky phantom game you know and i'm freaking out you know like they were all well done oh speed buggy away yeah yeah there was a lot of really cool games Of course, it's paper products, right? So you can make them in the United States and keep it relatively cheap.
Unique Game Mechanics
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I also, like, as I said, when and we did our Christmas episode, a lot of the games that I got were hand-me-downs. Like they were sure games from other families where the kids had outgrown them. So they were often missing pieces.
00:09:50
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ah fine or No, seriously, it's it's funny, but we we didn't care. We just made up our own games. Yeah. Because I seriously did have the RT Bunker game, and I don't think we ever played it because we didn't know how. I didn't have instructions.
00:10:04
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Oh, all the things to be missing, right? And it was probably a drinking game anyways. Exactly. pick up your Ryan Coke and read this card. That all in the family got a family board game.
00:10:17
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Yeah. It's really funny. Yeah. I think it was a sort of, you know, uh, you had to guess who would say something or who would do something or yeah what would Archie do.
00:10:27
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v So it was, it was a little bit too much for us when we were little kids, but we had it and we would, you know, throw the cards around and sure make it rain or something. I don't know. That's so funny. Yeah.
00:10:39
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One of my favorite games was inventors and it's for exactly the reasons that you said, because it was, it was one of those games where it had a cool function. So, um, because it was sort of, yeah you know, ye olde ah kind of game, it had a device for rolling the die.
00:10:59
Speaker
So you'd have to put the die in this machine a little chute at the top, and then you have to hit a plunger, and then the die would hit go down, it would hit a bell, ding. Oh my gosh. And then it would drop into a tray, and that's how you rolled the die. And I'm like, oh my god, that is the best gameplay ever.
00:11:15
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Well, gimmicks sell, right? I had that board game Gambler, And it had some weird dice thing inside it. I never actually played it, but I was fascinated by the way the dice would, you know. Yeah, it had a little chamber and then they would drop into order. Yeah, that's exactly. In a chute.
00:11:34
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Yeah, yeah. Well, I had that game for a while. i think I think I sold it in a yard sale recently. gambled and lost it. I totally did. Okay, so mousetrap right there. Oh, that was one of those ones that was on TV too, where I'm like, no, I never even had a chance to play it. I didn't know anybody who had it Maybe we were getting a little older by that point, but the way that commercials always made everything look like it's going to work so perfectly, you know?
00:12:00
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And it almost did sometimes. cootie. I had cootie. Oh, yeah, cootie. Yeah. that's That's when you had to, like, um catch the little bugs. You had to assemble the little bugs. You assembled the little bugs.
00:12:16
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Yeah, because Ants in the Pants is the one you had to, like, snap the ants into the bucket. Yeah, how cool. Oh, you know what else was really cool was the Bunky, Bucking Bronco game. We had to take. Buckaroo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. baaroo yeah yeah And you had the horse and you clunked him down and then you got to carefully hang his stuff on it.
00:12:37
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I remember. Cause that was another one where it was like, Oh no, Oh no, Oh But you know what? Those are good one player games. Oh, yeah, I guess so. I don't know if you've seen or or have seen, ah the Jaws game was just reissued this year.
00:12:57
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You know, the one where you're you're fishing the things out of the shark's mouth. So they've redone it. It's a whole new mold. It looks exactly like Bruce. All the things inside him have all been updated and people are freaking out about how cool and how well done.
00:13:12
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this upgrade is. I'm like, that's really awesome. A friend of mine who still has her original Jaws game is now i'm like, well, yeah, like there's nothing wrong with the old one, but like, it's amazing what they've done with this new one.
00:13:25
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So how many copies do you have? have none. Well, we'll have to get you one.
Collectible and Licensed Games
00:13:32
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I have sitting here my beautiful Wacky Races board game. it was like a, ah it wasn't a Kickstarter, it was that same kind of idea. Yeah. yeah ye Same kind of company.
00:13:45
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And i got the San Diego version where all the vehicles are already painted. Oh, nice. So it's really cool. Or you had to buy like the version where they're all gray.
00:13:56
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You know what I mean? And I treasure it and it's never been open. Oh, I was going to say, you know what? We should do a podcast while playing the game. Oh, we totally can. Like I want an excuse to open this thing. Like I'm not trying we going to do that.
00:14:10
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Okay. We're going to book that. Okay. I was going to say too, do you still have the Jaws game? Yes. It's right there beside it. No, the other one though. This is the board game. Yeah. We're talking about game. yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The one that I gave you a few years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You still that? Cause I gonna say we should play that too.
00:14:25
Speaker
That's true. That's true. We should play that. Cause I've always wanted to play it. I'm like, that looks really cool. I heard something about Ryan ginger. No, Ryan seven. That's what said, right? Yeah. Right. Seven. Yeah. Okay. Yes.
00:14:36
Speaker
All right. We'll do that. We're going to to play a game. All right. um One of the other ones I loved too was masterpiece. Yeah. And do you remember that one? What was that?
00:14:47
Speaker
Go ahead. Yeah. So that's the one where there's ah priceless paintings and you're an art dealer and you have to, you you clunk around a board and you get the opportunity to buy these paintings that have a hidden value tag attached to them.
00:15:06
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Okay. Yeah. So at the beginning of the game, you'd shuffle these values. Like, and so it's either like a forgery or it's worth like $10 million. Cause then you randomly.
00:15:18
Speaker
When we were kids. What was that? Everything was a forgery when we were kids. Totally. Counterfeiters and fake art and dog nappers. Everywhere. Like all of our cartoons, right? Very popular topic. I don't know why.
00:15:32
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No, no, it's cool. And so you you clip these prices on the back without looking. And then you play this game where everybody was trying to like buy as much art as possible. And then you get all your art when all the paintings have been sold.
00:15:47
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i think the game ends and then you have to like reveal what the value of your paintings are. And then the person with the most real paintings with the highest prices wins the game.
00:15:58
Speaker
That's cool. Yeah. And I loved that game. i thought it was so amazing. you remember Mastermind? yes i had mastermind i loved mastermind okay i loved that game that's like you know when you're getting a little older you know i mean there's some skill involved and a friend of mine who was a sore loser was we were playing mastermind and he was flipping out that he kept losing and he got really angry right And so his mom said, well, what are the colors that you have?
00:16:31
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And so he said, well, blah, blah, blah, and blah. And she's like, oh, no, colorblind. That's how they discovered it with masterminds.
00:16:44
Speaker
Oh my God. He was such a sore loser. Oh my gosh. But anyway, it was just, it was kind of freaky when you're a kid. This is unfolding in front of you. You know what I mean? But yeah, he was, he was colorblind. No way. So I always associate that with mastermind.
00:17:03
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So I'm not laughing at the kid. i just There's a little trauma there though. Yeah. Yes. Yes. thought you going to say like he ate all the pieces. There's trauma behind every corner. Yeah. No, nothing quite like that.
00:17:14
Speaker
Not as fun as that. But that was a cool game. Oh, and Battleship. My dad and I would bring Battleship. I had Battleship. Yeah. Because again, it's a little bit of skill, right? Yeah. Yeah. And that that was a cool one. And there's also just the, you know, the hands-on part of it where you're like, you know, moving things around or you're being all secretive behind your screen. exactly Yeah. No, I thought that was a cool game.
00:17:36
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Yeah. Of course, I coveted Electronic Battleship. I never had that. Oh, i wanted it so badly. Yeah. Well, you'd need batteries, so forget it. ah Batteries were $100 back then.
00:17:47
Speaker
Yeah, but you got to play Electronic Battleship. Yes. You sunk my battleship. But I don't, I'm trying to quickly think of any other games that I had. I know I had the $6 million dollar man game.
00:18:03
Speaker
I had a weird peanuts game. It was a baseball game. And the box was big and square, like a pizza box. Not like, pick you know, I didn't really care for it, but it was kind of, kind of neat, I suppose.
00:18:18
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um But there was all kinds of license stuff back then too. Yeah. we We tended to have, i think probably because it was my influence, I was always the one picking out the games.
00:18:28
Speaker
Being the oldest kid, i was really into sort of strategy games and games that seemed like, you know, they were going to use my brain. I loved playing Monopoly.
00:18:39
Speaker
Sure. I loved Careers. thought Careers was an awesome game. Yeah. yeah um And the Game of Life, like that was such an epic game. Most of our Monopoly games ended up with like you know money and properties being thrown around the room.
00:18:54
Speaker
Well, like if you're competitive, that's a tough game. If somebody swipes something that you want and you're just sitting there being all quiet-like and all of a sudden somebody jumps on something, it's like, no you've just blown my whole strategy out the window.
00:19:09
Speaker
Yeah. But like Risk, I never played Risk. Oh, yeah, yeah. Until you and I were friends. Yeah. and it was like, oh, that's actually a pretty cool game. know we but We played the the Lord of the Rings Risk.
00:19:24
Speaker
Really? Okay, don't remember. but Yeah, because I had that at one point, and it was pretty cool. like It was just Lord of the Rings Risk. Sure, sure. But yeah, it was pretty cool. I loved Risk.
00:19:34
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I had one of those as well. I think it was one that i only the only person I could get to play with, though, was my uncle. Yeah. So I would have to take it with me or play his version of it when I were at his house.
00:19:45
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But yeah, I loved it. Did you stop by the board game booth at Toronto comic-con the other week?
Card Games and Trading Cards
00:19:51
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No, I did not get a chance to know. They're always there faithfully. and And I, you know, you stand there and they've got all these beautiful boxes, you know, and I did stroll over and there was a Scooby game that I hadn't seen before. It didn't really look like anything much, but it's neat to see it in person, you know, instead of just online, but it's pretty wild. Like there's literally a game for every interest. Yeah.
00:20:14
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you know? Yeah, absolutely. And I'm sure they're way more complicated now than ever. oh they totally are. i am I bought a bunch of games just off a marketplace a few years ago. I think it was just probably during COVID. I was looking for things to kind of do,
00:20:32
Speaker
And I ended up buying all these really cool games that are one player games. And like, that's really cool. That's weird. There's a way you can just kind of play against the board. Yeah.
00:20:43
Speaker
And I think one of them is ah it might be one of the Game of Thrones games. Yeah. And I think I also have a ah Lord of the Rings one as well that you can just play yourself. But they're really big and complicated.
00:20:55
Speaker
It's weird how there's all those games now where it's like, you know, it'll say right on the box, you know, play in 10 minutes, play in 15 minutes. I'm like, wow, this family does not want to hang out. No, they do not.
00:21:08
Speaker
And like card games, like the the various games that are are like on a set of cards are really popular right now. Or Uno. I love Uno. That game makes me laugh. Oh my gosh. It is the most, what's what's the word? Like it's so addictive and it's so funny and it's so fun. And if you're playing with the right people, oh my gosh, they just laugh and laugh through the whole thing.
00:21:37
Speaker
So you haven't played Star Trek Uno then, have you? No, that wouldn't make me laugh.
00:21:44
Speaker
I had Scooby-Doo Uno, of course, but I don't have it anymore. yeah i think i still have I think I still have my Star Trek Uno. That's so funny. Of course there's Star Trek Uno. Of course there is. Why wouldn't there There is Uno everything, but it's funny that there's Star Trek Uno. Yeah, totally.
00:22:01
Speaker
You're listening to the Obesonant Resoings. The Gen for Life podcast started working from home in the early COVID days. Um, or sorry, pre COVID, um, my team at work, we used to play every lunch. We used to play Rook and I had never heard of Rook before. I'd seen the cards hanging on the card, you know, peg at the store for years, but I had no idea what it was.
00:22:27
Speaker
should have been called. put down Yeah, totally hanging on the hook. It, um, somebody introduced Euchre at in our sort of lunchtime games. And so we were playing that for a while.
00:22:42
Speaker
And then I said, hey, you know what? I have this card game that I bought it. I just didn't have anybody to play with. And I said, da I'm going to bring it. we'll We'll see if we can figure it out. And everybody's like, oh, my God, this is just a sort of variation on Euchre.
00:22:55
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It's the same kind of game. So we played for probably two years almost every single lunchtime. Yeah. Yeah. We even had like tournaments in the office.
00:23:08
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where Various teams were, we had multiple decks and everybody was like just playing on this, you know, this massive Rook tournament over lunchtime. It was so amazing. We, yeah when we ended up getting set home, we actually found an online version so that we could continue playing. Cool.
00:23:25
Speaker
Which was really awesome. It was so fun, but it's, it's such a simple game, but it seems so complicated before I actually sat down to play it, but love that game as well. Is there a Star Trek Rook?
00:23:38
Speaker
You know what? Sadly, there is not. Oh, no. Give it time. Yeah. I think somebody's got to get working on that. Look at how big like role-playing card games got yep and still are.
00:23:51
Speaker
you know like Who would have thought Pokemon cards would still be as big as they are today as they were 30 years ago? But and my question is...
00:24:02
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Does anybody actually play Pokemon? Or do they just collect the cards? I think they just collect the cards. So here's this here's a story. When I worked for Toys R Us, um I worked at the ah the location on Yonge Street, just above Queen Street in Toronto.
00:24:19
Speaker
It was a really awesome boutique version of a Toys R Us store. And so I was the the store manager there. But I was the only one that wanted to run the Pokemon League.
00:24:31
Speaker
So everybody was like, yeah, you go do it, nerd. And so I was like, yeah, I'm doing it. So Saturday mornings, I would haul out this great big you know table and all these kids would sign up. And and I was just like this Pokemon master. Yeah.
00:24:46
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and No, we actually did it right downstairs because there was actually more room and in the back corner in the the preschool area. Okay. but Yeah. So I was a Pokemon master trainer and I would award kids these prizes and I had my own decks all built and I had a lot of fun. I loved playing Pokemon.
00:25:06
Speaker
Well, like having played it a few times, I get the attraction. So speaking of things on my desk, can you see this? Oh, Digimon. Do you know what that is?
00:25:18
Speaker
what is it? It's part of the card game. Oh, from the original Digimon game. Yeah, and here's here's the cards that I still have. No way.
00:25:30
Speaker
They're on my desk because I was going through some stuff, and I'm assuming they might have some value. And like here's some one-off, still-sealed Pokemon card that's either worth $1 or $1. Yeah, totally. ah I'll get to it. i just haven't gotten to it yet.
00:25:45
Speaker
That's so cool. Yeah. i still have a handful of my original cards too, that I probably, probably should find a ah buyer for. going to say that there's value to those old cards, you know, like anyway, of course there is. Right.
00:25:59
Speaker
Yeah, totally. I did sell off my, uh, my Digimon cards. Did you? Sadly. Yeah. You can have these ones. No, it's okay. Okay. then you sell them again. like, hey, wait a minute. And retire. Yeah, exactly. You know that card you gave me?
00:26:16
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It was for $7 million. Why is this podcast not around anymore?
00:26:22
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Hey, where'd the host go? yeah Exactly. I think he's living on an island somewhere.
00:26:28
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playing Settlers of Catan. Awesome. Any other board games you want to reminisce about? I'm really trying to think about ones I had when I was a kid. I really did love that Winnie the Pooh game.
00:26:39
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it was just ah It was just a board game where you travel around, you know, But there was all these little different colored round play pieces. Like you would put your hand inside this bag, fish around and pull out, you know, one of the little round pieces. And I think maybe that's where you moved to on the board.
00:26:56
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it was simple game, but loved it. Oh my gosh, I loved that game. And I remember my dad's mom playing with me that Christmas morning that I got it. Nice. It's just nice memories and a fun, sweet game.
00:27:08
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But yeah, I don't know. I i had that that cupboard where all these mint in box untouched games were. But the only one I really remember, oh, Bonkers. i had Bonkers.
00:27:23
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That sounds familiar. Gambler, I never played it. And I'm trying to think of what the other ones were. But if my parents had an interest in something, like my dad liked Battleship, then we would play. Cool.
00:27:34
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And both my parents would play that that Star Wars movie game with me. I don't know loved that one so much, but i just did. Yeah, that's bizarre. Yeah. Well, i know. I know because I'm not a Star Wars fan, but it was a lot of fun.
00:27:47
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That's wild. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's point.
Trivia and 80s Pop Culture
00:27:50
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Totally
00:27:52
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Oh, you know what that means? oh gosh. It's humiliation time. It's really not that bad. ah Parker brother? No.
00:28:04
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No, of course. Absolutely not. Okay. So we're actually going to play a game. Oh. So when I was at Toronto Comic-Con. Yes. the To win a prize at the the Canadian Podcast Award table in my in my booth, you had to play one of three games. You got to play Barrel of Monkeys.
00:28:23
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ah Taboo or Trivial Pursuit Totally 80s. Oh, Trivial Pursuit. Oh, my gosh. Massive. hate Right? Yeah. Yeah. So I am the worst person at trivia ever.
00:28:37
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Because I can't think of anything, especially when you ask me a question about it. I need like three hours to go and sit back and think about it. And then I'll come back to you with, you know, a very thoughtful answer. Okay, but wait, I have a question. What was that v chats game that we had and we played with Nesta and all of a sudden like this ghoul would appear on the screen, know, with lightning flashing. Screamer?
00:29:00
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screamers you know yeah totally yeah was it was with that first wave of vhs games came out yeah we're all i think it's called screamers okay that just popped into my head no i'm sorry oh yeah yeah i forgot about that because then they started doing all the uh the trivia pursuit games and then started doing all the trivia games with the dvds yeah Oh, that reminds me one of my favorite games as a kid was about being a record producer.
00:29:27
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Whoa. Yeah. And it it was this massive board. It was bigger than all my other board games. And I can't remember all of the things, but it had a ton of money. And it it had these little um these little gold records.
00:29:42
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They were gold records, right? So what you had to do is when you you got to get a gold record to keep the gold record, you'd actually have to go to your record player, put a 45 on the record player, and then drop the needle on. And it have to it's a hit.
00:29:56
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It's a hit. It's a hit. No way. Yeah. It's a flop. It's a flop. It's a flop. And then if it was a flop, you wouldn't get to keep the gold record. But if it was a hit, you kept that record.
00:30:08
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No way. Totally just remembered that. I loved that game. And I had no idea what it was called, but it was so cool. Just mostly because I love the gold records. Yeah. i bought the Speaking of gold records, I bought the Partridge Family game.
00:30:21
Speaker
like Still factory sealed from a variety store in like nineteen ninety And i I have no memory of what I did with it. I'm for sure I wouldn't have opened it. And I guess I must have sold it.
00:30:34
Speaker
anyway. Wait, I can see it right there. It's on your shelf. Yeah. Don't look. Those are my Partridge family records. Mystery solved. All right.
00:30:45
Speaker
So let's play a game. All right. I'm going to read you. Yeah, it's Trivia Pursuit. Totally 80s. So you should you should know all of these. I'm going to give you an easy one. If it's TV, I won't know it.
00:30:56
Speaker
I was just going to say it's going to be TV. God. And I actually know this one, so I'm going to ask you. Okay, ready? Yeah. What short-lived sequel series opened with Lauren Green declaring, we have at last found Earth?
00:31:12
Speaker
Galactica 80? Yes. you ah See, I told you. You knew that one. Yes, Galactica 80. All three episodes or however many there were.
00:31:26
Speaker
Okay, your next one is a music question. Oh, good. What metal group featured an overgrown military cemetery on its seminal Master of Puppets album?
00:31:38
Speaker
Master of Puppets? Isn't that Metallica? ah Yes, you are correct. Good one. Okay. What breath sweetening product was hyped in the 1980s ads as the gum that goes squirt?
00:31:55
Speaker
Oh, fresh, freshen up, freshen up. Yeah. You got it. Look at this. See, you're a master of the 80s. And it was like phlegm was inside the gu I love that gum.
00:32:07
Speaker
I did too. and It wasn't blabby to me. Okay. TV. What series centered on a detective agency named for the shampoo its owner used to model for?
00:32:22
Speaker
ah I'm just prowl head and shoulders a wait I'm not done Johnson and Johnson's no more babies no more babies totally no more babies no more babies it's the 70s right there what show is moonlighting Wait, Moonlighting was a shampoo?
00:32:53
Speaker
yeah Okay. is Isn't that crazy? I just actually, we just rewatched a few of those episodes and I didn't even realize that. That's Bruce and What's Her Face, right?
00:33:03
Speaker
Yes. What's Her Face? who's Who's the woman? Oh, don't ask me trivia questions. I'm so bad at this. I'd have to Google it.
Conclusion and Audience Engagement
00:33:12
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Is it What's Her Face? Yeah, it's the face. She has blonde hair.
00:33:17
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Right, that's her. A long bob. She was in damages. Wasn't she in damages? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, Sybil Shepard. Sybil Shepard, that's the one. Is it though? See, if somebody else says it, then I i know that it's right.
00:33:31
Speaker
Yeah, that's who it is, Sybil Shepard. No, that's not right. no it is. I'm looking that up, Paul. You go ahead. Okay, you look that up. Okay. Okay.
00:33:41
Speaker
Okay, music. Who's on the reference commercials? Remember those? Okay. What men at work hit, introduced world audiences to the mysteries of the Vegemite sandwich? Land Down Under?
00:33:52
Speaker
Is that what the single was called? it's called Down Under. Yeah. Oh, Down Under. Yeah, you got that one right. That's good. That's pretty funny. Which of their hit singles? I'm like, well... there Depends on what you think a hit is. i used to like that. a hit.
00:34:06
Speaker
It's a hit. It's a hit. Yeah, right on. that i like that single they had. um Mr. Jive, Dr. Heckle, and Mr. Jive. is that what it was called? I like that single. No idea. That's what was wondering. You spend a fortune on the UK 12-inch and come home and it's not extended.
00:34:22
Speaker
boy That sucks. Okay. Last one. This is a movie question. What movie had Eric Stoltz began filming when he was summarily replaced by Michael J. Fox?
00:34:37
Speaker
In the eighties. Yep. Oh, I don't know. Everybody loves back to the future. Is it back to the future? oh you got it. Yeah. I didn't realize that. I only read that recently that, uh, he was just fired.
00:34:51
Speaker
Yeah. It was Sybil Shepard. Yeah. See, I told you. That hurt my brain.
00:34:59
Speaker
i told you, I knew it was Sybil Shepard all along. was on for four years. Yeah. It wasn't as funny as I remembered it. ah Nothing ever is. No. Except the Munsters.
00:35:10
Speaker
And Golden Girls. Oh, dear.
00:35:16
Speaker
and don't want you getting letters, so I'll keep my mouth shut. All right. No problem. Okay. So we're going to wrap this this game episode up. That was awesome. I love games. Love board games. So go check out social media. to Come on. Go to go to my... What is it called again?
00:35:32
Speaker
The Interweb. Go to my... Go to my speak pipe link. Send me a message. What was your favorite board game when you were a kid? I already told to hear from you. Yeah, not you. to everybody else.
00:35:44
Speaker
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00:36:14
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