Yes and yes. I followed the rules as a kid. I played the games with the full rules multiple times even, in defiance of everyone saying that everyone only does so once.
Looking at YouTube playthroughs for nostalgia, it looks like the game rules today have the trap set up to start? When I played, the rules were that you had to build it up slowly over the course of the game, one piece at a time, and only once it was built could it be activated. Yes, I played that way.
There were cards in Operation?
If there were, then they'd long been lost by the time that well used game found its way into my hands.
I had no idea there were cards. It was a "Can you get them all out in one go? if not, put them back and give to the other person if there even IS another person
I'm the reverse of you actually, as a child it never occurred to me that you could just build the mouse trap without playing the game. So I exclusively played it properly and now I feel a bit stupid.
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.
I played both. And Hungry Hungry Hippo too. And The Game of Life.
All of those I only played max 3x before I switched to just using the props and dispensing with the game though.
Well I've finally met someone!
The Mousetrap game was janky and barely worked. I don’t know if our Operation board still had cards by the time it got to me. I was the third, so… Mousetrap was new when I was a kid, so that came to me new in the box.
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?
Each player gets a hand of “specialist” cards at the start. Each turn a player draws a “doctor” card and attempts to retrieve the part on the card and if they are successful are awarded the money listed on the card. If they aren’t successful the player who has the specialist card gets to attempt it and wins the (larger) sum of money listed on the specialist card. In some versions of the game, there air no “specialist” cards, only “doctor” cards
I don't get this complaint. What didn't work? It always worked 100% for me.
Maybe they improved quality control at some point (or decreased it before my time, idk), but as I recall, the issues were mostly with some of the later contraptions, like the diving board, the diver going into the tub, and the final cage itself.
I'm guessing it's the reverse- quality control got less over time. The Mousetrap I've seen recently looks much crappier than the one we had, which was from the 70s. Which is weird since it's just plastic.
My version was from the '80s, fwiw.
Yeah they probably got crappier with time, mine was likely from the 90s
Yes to both, thought only a couple of times each...
I babysat a brother and sister in the early 90s and we played Mousetrap properly after dinner to kill time until bedtime. Worst babysitter ever.
Then I let them stay up past bedtime while we figured out the most cursed modifications/add-ons. Best babysitter ever.
(In truth, I remember that I had talked with the parents beforehand about "stated bedtime" versus "real bedtime".)
Yes we played the Mousetrap board game as kids. It was quite fun to be fair, even just playing with the mechanics solo was fun.
My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.
I didn't know Operation has cards...
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 😂
Just got my daughter operation for Christmas, played with the cards the very first time out.
So we haven't met, but ive definitely used the cards. Mousetrap I played with a lot, but I think only played by the full rules like maybe 10 times max.
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.
I've played Operation straight by the rules several times. I don't think I've ever even seen a copy of Mousetrap that had all the pieces.
I've played both but every copy of mouse trap I've ever had either didn't work or worked very shittily. Massive disappointment all the way around
Yes and yes.
Many, many times, yes. We always used the cards for Operation and played Mousetrap quite a bit when I was little.
How would you even play operation without the cards? How is it scored, who wins?
This is how we played it: you take out as many organs as you can until you are buzzed and then it's the next player's turn. When you run out of organs, the player with the most wins.
I mean the fun part was just trying to get them out anyway.
that's how I played it as well, didn't even know what the cards were mean't for
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