I remember saving up to buy the original. The ENDLESS adverts got me. Every commercial break for MONTHS. Milton-Bradley was RELENTLESS. I finally got it, it was comically HUGE ... and I was completely embarrassed at how juvenile it was. I wasn't old enough to enjoy kid's games again. My older brother played the heck out of it with my cousin. And like an idiot I gave it away or tossed it, so I lost all around on this one LOL
I played the original fireball island when I was a kid. I played the new version recently with my adult friends. My assessment is the new version is not for kids under 12 years old. The new version is really for adults. The original is easy to play, simple to understand and the gameplay is linear. The new version has to many rules to remember, a nonlinear map, new components and a point system to win. As an adult, we still got confused with some of the rules so we played using a simplified house rules, which made it more fun to play.
For a minute I thought they said they had a Catechism on the island which would have been kind of funny. "When white smoke comes out of Vul-kar it means they have a new pope." :)
It's funny how I first met you lot through VideoGamerUK. Then I followed Matt's work to Shut Up and Sit Down and Regular Features, missed Bratterz for a long time after he left, and now he's here and I watch People Make Games (and Gravy importantly). I love you all :)
ohmylord.....I have the old one in my basement right now.....i forgot it exists, and now I HAVE to break it out and trick friends into playing it with me!
Please can we see Kylie be the one explaining the rules on the next playthrough! I think she’d do a great job and it’ll allow Quinns to resist his more controlling tendencies and banter more with Matt
I'm really annoyed by the reduced importance of the jewel. The end condition should be getting the three souvenir photos, which then allows him to take the jewel. When you get the jewel, this starts a free for all mad dash to the helipad. Players that don't have the three photos can still steal the jewel and win the game. That makes a ton more sense than just being able to get the jewel whenever. The jewel should be the goal of the game, not just a random additional prize.
She lifts weights, she likes Predator, she has a nice chin, Kylie's very impressive. No wonder she won. That looks like fun. And yeah, I like the theme too. You should have played two games. War of the Rings was my introduction to this channel. So that's why Paul left.
The snake is good! (The snake is good!) The ruby is evil! The ruby shoots fireballs, and knocks you over, and poisons the earth with a plague of lava, as once it was. But the snake shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of players.
I think you need have grown up in the 80s/90s to fully understand the game's appeal. Back then, in the golden age of sunday cartoon commercials, there were many 'gimmicky' games full of plastic components whose sole purpose was to look good in a TV spot. Unfortunately, gameplay-wise nearly all of them fell flat. Some of us still look back on them with some fondness, even though their objective awfulness makes revisiting them a doubtful proposition. Rostoration Games's stated mission is to turn some of these flawed gems into actually enjoyable experiences. Fireball Island won't win any awards, but it may be just the kind of thing that board gamers who played it in their childhood will now want to show their own children.
My daughter loves playing it, and it’s an excellent gateway/newbie game that still requires more thought than Monopoly, etc. It’s also a great party game that gets people laughing/shouting without having to push inappropriate social boundaries. I’ve played it many times and each time it was just good ol’ fun. :)
I believe you need to play 3 cataclysm cards before you add 1 marble to the scar. We played add a marble every cataclysm the first time we played and the game went very quickly.
Very fun to watch, but in the future please don't mute the audio for your sound effects. I love listening to your table talk and feel like we're missing out!
RULE BREAKING: You have to start with 1 Souvenir Card 4:19 The Helipad counts as a space because you jump off the Hello Copter 11:03 You can't have TWO of the same color Snapshots. You can only have one. Blister Run or Skeleton Head Beach 13:46 If you get knocked over by anything (unless someone bumped the table) it counts. 15:22 When there are 3 Cataclysm Cards in The Cataclysm Tracker you have to re shuffle the deck with those Cataclysm Cards AND put one fireball into The Scar. 24:00 If a player gets touched with a fireball but doesn't get knocked over it counts. 24:19 Matt has to put a treasure into The Maw if her get's knocked over on his own turn. 31:36 Cave Spaces don't actually count as actual spaces. 34:03 Matt had to give a treasure to Kiley. 40:05 Your action card has to be the exact amount of spaces from the helipad to get to the helipad, so you really didn't.
I am here only to support Kylie in her love of Predator and intern (Pun) shame both Mat and Quins for not liking or even watching the greatest action movie of all time. Shame....SHAME!
The rule book says (and shows a picture ) to place the 36 treasure tokens face up...Makes sense to place the grass side up as you've done here. Also there seems to be a flawed End of the Game rule that says the game ends when all players have had 2 turns... edit: just a fiddly rule description!
Considering the scoring is based on collecting the same types, I understood it to be face up so you could take that into account when pathing and actively try and get the same thing. No?
It reminds me of the board games of Atlantis and Valley of the Dinosaurs which were both of a similar timeline. If you could get hold of either then you should give those a try as they are great! Fab vid as always
when guns get turned off thats all lifes gonna be one big tiger hopping mini game, if we finish early. that mean its tiger hopping at the senior center?
I feel that they did a good job putting some strategic thinking into what was originally a pretty gimmicky game. It's one of those games that can be incredibly fun and goofy for adults that can make up a myriad of absurd drinking rules. It's also fun to play with the kids and letting the imagination have fun by play-acting the Indiana Jones like characters as they evade or get scorched. The board is very finely detailed and it sparks the imagination like many 3-D textured playing boards do. (I was totally disgusted with how cheap board games like 'Life' have become. When I was a kid there were little plastic houses and mansions that made the flat board pop. The new version is blatantly designed to trim pennies from manufacturing costs and it shows, even with how small the cards are with incredibly cheap pulp paper.) 'Fireball Island' on the other hand made me feel like yes, it was expensive ($75 US), but the pieces, board, and cards all feel like pretty good quality. Even the box cover art was done very well as you can see the etching at certain light angles. Worth it IMHO.
You started the game wrong. Everyone stays on the hello copter and the first move they take goes from the copter to the pad. Counting as 1 space to do it.
If this is really supposed to be a children's game, it only exists to start fights. I can see adults or even teenagers playing this. Anyone under 10 would NEVER be able to agree on these nebulous rules and uneven gameplay.
“The addition of the tiger is so excellently crap” Quins says right at the end. I think they know it is a crappy game in one sense, but can be enjoyed like a campy movie can.
"If you love something, send it to Canada." That's what they did with Paul.
awwwwwwwwww
😭
We happily welcome him!
Big fan of the balloon hovering above Matt's head for the entire stream
I like that the tiger hops from off the island, implying that it leaps out of the fucking ocean
I remember saving up to buy the original. The ENDLESS adverts got me. Every commercial break for MONTHS. Milton-Bradley was RELENTLESS. I finally got it, it was comically HUGE ... and I was completely embarrassed at how juvenile it was. I wasn't old enough to enjoy kid's games again. My older brother played the heck out of it with my cousin. And like an idiot I gave it away or tossed it, so I lost all around on this one LOL
Kylie: the Predator movie has muscley men in it
Quinns: thats how I rate James Bond movies
we need an article on Quinns' homoerotic 007 scale
"Flame Geezer" is actually the octogenarian superhero whose secret base is on the island
I played the original fireball island when I was a kid. I played the new version recently with my adult friends. My assessment is the new version is not for kids under 12 years old. The new version is really for adults. The original is easy to play, simple to understand and the gameplay is linear. The new version has to many rules to remember, a nonlinear map, new components and a point system to win. As an adult, we still got confused with some of the rules so we played using a simplified house rules, which made it more fun to play.
For a minute I thought they said they had a Catechism on the island which would have been kind of funny. "When white smoke comes out of Vul-kar it means they have a new pope." :)
It's funny how I first met you lot through VideoGamerUK. Then I followed Matt's work to Shut Up and Sit Down and Regular Features, missed Bratterz for a long time after he left, and now he's here and I watch People Make Games (and Gravy importantly). I love you all :)
21:34 Matt singing Jean-Michel Jarre !!! Priceless !!!
I play this game all the time with my 3 year old. He absolutely loves it
Matt, I did notice your bees were multiplying & I suspect that they were also looooosing controooool.
Brilliant, but you're never gaming round my house...use coasters for your drinks! And Predator is AWESOME!
Love the painted adventurers ! Would love to see the other 2.
ohmylord.....I have the old one in my basement right now.....i forgot it exists, and now I HAVE to break it out and trick friends into playing it with me!
Game of Choking Hazards, the new series from HBO Kids.
With a very disappointing ending.
Please can we see Kylie be the one explaining the rules on the next playthrough!
I think she’d do a great job and it’ll allow Quinns to resist his more controlling tendencies and banter more with Matt
I'm really annoyed by the reduced importance of the jewel. The end condition should be getting the three souvenir photos, which then allows him to take the jewel. When you get the jewel, this starts a free for all mad dash to the helipad. Players that don't have the three photos can still steal the jewel and win the game. That makes a ton more sense than just being able to get the jewel whenever. The jewel should be the goal of the game, not just a random additional prize.
When you get knocked over you always get a souvenir card.
The Predator is not as good as The Terminator?! How dare you, Mr Lees!
Predator is definitely better than The Terminator
@@ryanmckennamusic Agreed but Terminator 2 is better than both.
Predator, probably the best action film in the 80s. Definitely the best jungle based action movie with an alien
She lifts weights, she likes Predator, she has a nice chin, Kylie's very impressive. No wonder she won.
That looks like fun. And yeah, I like the theme too.
You should have played two games.
War of the Rings was my introduction to this channel.
So that's why Paul left.
The real treasure wasnt friendship. Well it was friendship but it was also snakes.
I thought I played this game but it turns out I just remembered watching this video. Oops
The snake is good! (The snake is good!) The ruby is evil! The ruby shoots fireballs, and knocks you over, and poisons the earth with a plague of lava, as once it was. But the snake shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of players.
SFX were pleasing. I wish there were more tigers though. "Cripes"
The sound fx are fine and all, but I'd much rather hear THEM speaking. Muting for some nonsense just seems wrong
sound effects are too long and mute out the mics =/ otherwise, this stream was great fun
I have a feeling, not sure why, that quinns no longer blows on components. Something that happened in 2020, but I can't think of it right now.
On the one hand this looks amazing on the table, but at the same time I don't see what the appeal of playing it would be. Weird game.
I think you need have grown up in the 80s/90s to fully understand the game's appeal. Back then, in the golden age of sunday cartoon commercials, there were many 'gimmicky' games full of plastic components whose sole purpose was to look good in a TV spot. Unfortunately, gameplay-wise nearly all of them fell flat. Some of us still look back on them with some fondness, even though their objective awfulness makes revisiting them a doubtful proposition. Rostoration Games's stated mission is to turn some of these flawed gems into actually enjoyable experiences. Fireball Island won't win any awards, but it may be just the kind of thing that board gamers who played it in their childhood will now want to show their own children.
My daughter loves playing it, and it’s an excellent gateway/newbie game that still requires more thought than Monopoly, etc. It’s also a great party game that gets people laughing/shouting without having to push inappropriate social boundaries. I’ve played it many times and each time it was just good ol’ fun. :)
You know the sound effects are good when all other audio cuts out.
I believe you need to play 3 cataclysm cards before you add 1 marble to the scar. We played add a marble every cataclysm the first time we played and the game went very quickly.
Very fun to watch, but in the future please don't mute the audio for your sound effects. I love listening to your table talk and feel like we're missing out!
RULE BREAKING:
You have to start with 1 Souvenir Card
4:19 The Helipad counts as a space because you jump off the Hello Copter
11:03 You can't have TWO of the same color Snapshots. You can only have one. Blister Run or Skeleton Head Beach
13:46 If you get knocked over by anything (unless someone bumped the table) it counts.
15:22 When there are 3 Cataclysm Cards in The Cataclysm Tracker you have to re shuffle the deck with those Cataclysm Cards AND put one fireball into The Scar.
24:00 If a player gets touched with a fireball but doesn't get knocked over it counts.
24:19 Matt has to put a treasure into The Maw if her get's knocked over on his own turn.
31:36 Cave Spaces don't actually count as actual spaces.
34:03 Matt had to give a treasure to Kiley.
40:05 Your action card has to be the exact amount of spaces from the helipad to get to the helipad, so you really didn't.
The comments about blowing on the dice... And later about sneezing on the game and sending it to SHUX. Those jokes are way darker in a COVID world.
sound effects that mute the stream and go on for 5 seconds... not good design ;)
I was thinking the exact opposite when that happened.
I'm guessing they are going for cheesy and low production quality to go with the overall theme of the game.
That's a nice $100 dollar game right there.
...Massive joke about Predator, and Quinns goes with the Jurassic Park theme and not Long Tall Sally. The shame of it all.
Oh hey, I'm pretty sure that scream sound effect is the same one they used on Flip the Table for the Battle of Wits.
I am here only to support Kylie in her love of Predator and intern (Pun) shame both Mat and Quins for not liking or even watching the greatest action movie of all time.
Shame....SHAME!
Hmmmmmmmmm That looks fun! Love this channel
The rule book says (and shows a picture ) to place the 36 treasure tokens face up...Makes sense to place the grass side up as you've done here.
Also there seems to be a flawed End of the Game rule that says the game ends when all players have had 2 turns...
edit: just a fiddly rule description!
Considering the scoring is based on collecting the same types, I understood it to be face up so you could take that into account when pathing and actively try and get the same thing. No?
Deathrace82 as I continue, it may be because of the bees.
It reminds me of the board games of Atlantis and Valley of the Dinosaurs which were both of a similar timeline. If you could get hold of either then you should give those a try as they are great! Fab vid as always
Solid game, I have the original and the expansion, loads of fun. Good family game. Thanks for the review, most enjoyable!
Oh my god, I played this as a kid.
2:18 Call Spielberg, there as been a violation of int property, Alert !
Did anyone else notice that he put the ladder back on backwards?
you are suppose to stop at the cave entrance..............
Pour the bees!
Just from the start I am wondering if this game could be adapted to a Predator board game.
Predator is better than every film every made.
when guns get turned off thats all lifes gonna be one big tiger hopping mini game, if we finish early. that mean its tiger hopping at the senior center?
I love
Really thought this game would involve shots of fireball whiskey.
Just... keep SHUX going in my area (Vancouver-ish) until a year that I can afford to go. lol... wait, until the year AFTER I can afford to go.
Predator is KING.....anytime.
it's a good sign that 2 1/2 mins in they get a rule wrong...
Bee sound effect was not Nic Cage.
Someone needs to say it. Predator is far superior to Rambo and Robocop.
Robocop is better than Predator imo
Shouldn’t there be a souvenir given every time you’re knocked over?
Yes
“Very Cool Burn Scar - 3 points ”
I feel that they did a good job putting some strategic thinking into what was originally a pretty gimmicky game. It's one of those games that can be incredibly fun and goofy for adults that can make up a myriad of absurd drinking rules. It's also fun to play with the kids and letting the imagination have fun by play-acting the Indiana Jones like characters as they evade or get scorched. The board is very finely detailed and it sparks the imagination like many 3-D textured playing boards do. (I was totally disgusted with how cheap board games like 'Life' have become. When I was a kid there were little plastic houses and mansions that made the flat board pop. The new version is blatantly designed to trim pennies from manufacturing costs and it shows, even with how small the cards are with incredibly cheap pulp paper.)
'Fireball Island' on the other hand made me feel like yes, it was expensive ($75 US), but the pieces, board, and cards all feel like pretty good quality. Even the box cover art was done very well as you can see the etching at certain light angles. Worth it IMHO.
You started the game wrong. Everyone stays on the hello copter and the first move they take goes from the copter to the pad. Counting as 1 space to do it.
Do you recommend this game :P?
They should do a review of Medieval.
Not seen predator???? what the actual hell
Square bases!
Lied and susbribed.
1st
There is nothing to be ashamed of Kyle if you ask me. Predator is an amazing David and Goliath film!
Correct me if I am wrong but arent you suppose to put the embers in the volcano when they trigger? Not flick or push them?
embers are pushed (but not flicked) from the starting spots. only the red balls in The Scar are launched from Vul-Kar.
The playthrough itself was enjoyable, but I am not sure if the game would give me fun.
I really dislike when you can sense the workplace tension between Matt and Quinns. It's like mummy and daddy are fighting.
I don’t see it
Does Matt seem a little angry in this stream?
too long soundboard interruptions
Quinns is off to the side... this feels wrong.
Im here for the pretty girl....... Aaaand the good looking boys of SU&SD.
The art of Mansplaining as demonstrated by Quinns :D
Knock off the sound effects. I'd rather hear what the players are saying.
I didnt know people make games was associated with you lot...interesting
the old one was better
If this is really supposed to be a children's game, it only exists to start fights. I can see adults or even teenagers playing this. Anyone under 10 would NEVER be able to agree on these nebulous rules and uneven gameplay.
WTF doesnt look like the same game i remember
Um, yes? It's a remake, not a rerelease.
First comment lol
1st
This was such a bad game. Such a disappointment. The components are awful, gameplay is boring. Ugh. Horrible game.
“The addition of the tiger is so excellently crap” Quins says right at the end. I think they know it is a crappy game in one sense, but can be enjoyed like a campy movie can.
I want to vomit
"Intern".. Is that tongue in cheek?
no, she's actually a real intern.