Game of Life

Fun family game
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
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???
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
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.

This toy/game is great, but we got ripped off by this seller
We thought we were buying a "Game of Life" and when we got it it had been shipped in two Trader Joes brown paper bags and tied with string, and the game was a simpsons version, I do not like the simpsons and would not have bought this had I known, plus the game was listed as like new and the box was completely falling apart... ridiculous.