Last night I was playing the “Game of Life” with Bay. I remember it as being a fun game, especially putting the little plastic people in the cars, spinning the number wheel, and driving the cars on those little hills. Those things are still there, but the game has changed a lot since I used to play as a kid. It’s a lot more complicated than I remember. Now you have these life-tokens which you collect throughout the game, then there are salary cards, career cards, and a couple other ones I can’t remember. Plus, a lot of the spaces have career icons next to them that have special properties. I spent most of the game reading the instructions, which are pretty lengthy. It wasn’t so fun.

Plus, the spinner now really sucks. In the old game, you used to really be able to wind-up and spin that sucker! Now the spinner is kind of free-floating and becomes unbalanced and crooked unless you are really careful. No more super-spinning to see how fast you can get it to go. You know, that spinner was one of the things that made Life so unique and fun. It is so poorly made now that I think I need to go buy a 10-sided die from the local dork hobby store.

With all these rule changes, I am curious as to how the game used to be years ago. Maybe my memory is just hazy.