The Absurdity of 1970's (Game of) LIFE
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2023
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Being born in the 70s in this game means that the orphan attacks begin around 2040.
Get ready
Anyone get forced to buy a yacht recently????
Maybe. Although the game does start with you already around 20 years old. So that means you were really born in the 50s, and you would turn 70 at around, uh...
*pulls out calculator*
oh no
@@lettuce141holy shit lmao
Guess the boomer reckoning is coming soon, eh?
@@lettuce141Orphans indeed.
Ah, life in the 70s.. my dad would always tell me about going to elementary school as a kid, backpack full of raw uranium, and being mugged by the local gaggle of orphans… I was born in the wrong generation 😭
'backpack full of raw uranium'
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@@HooblytheHoobly i completely forgot i made this comment, only to come back to it being one of the most liked on the video 😂
@@zhonghuaxiansheng oi congrats mate for your comment to be on the top!
"Thar's right, there's a 10% chance you just win the entire game!"
As a DM this statement shook me to the core in fear.
Luckily, like reality, the game of life is a godless world
In one of my games, the DM pulled the inverse. Our party was saved by a deux ex machina, but he revealed afterwards that there was a 10% chance of it just not happening and the game ending in a TPK.
In F.A.T.A.L., whenever you miscast a spell, there's a 1-in-2,000 chance that you accidentally cast the Fatal spell, which INSTANTLY ends ALL LIFE on the PLANET, including that of the castor.
@@2ndsnake899 Thereby being the best part of FATAL, as it causes you to no longer be playing FATAL.
Does your version also have the "if you have more children than seats in your car, bunch them in... just like in real life!" rule?
It does! I've had to stick 2 inbetween the pegs before
@@kamsandwichit would be easier if they were like battleship pegs tbh
@@tutus3dall-starsmultiversa646 Who are you? I am from ancient Rome.
Back in the day I'd just grab a second car..
@@tutus3dall-starsmultiversa646That would make sense and be easier. They didn’t have those concepts in the 1970’s
I was in Spec Ed and every friday we got to play board games. We had this version of Life and my friend and I would play it every week. I remember getting so frustrated getting stuck in the orphan loop I started to cry and had to leave the room.
Lots of good memories
>Cried so much that you had to leave the game
>good memories
You... you ok bud?
@@oz_jonesodds are if they were in a sped class, yeah.
I was thinking about how I was nostalgic for the walk from lunch to recess, because it was the only time in school I wasn't absolutely miserable.
Most likely the standard set of happy memories from middle/high school are replaced by times where we weren't considering the fatality rate of auto-defenestration.
the original game had a spinner or something too, because dice had an association with gambling and supposedly that would make it more wholesome
then they make a whole game based around chance, which undermines the whole thing
Salary is at best 50k and multiple spaces land >200k in either the positives or the negatives. This is basically a gambling simulator
How were they going to sell that when Monopoly had dice for years and is like the childhood board game everyone played?
@@memesthatmakeyouwannadie3133 I'm pretty sure monopoly hadn't come out yet, and also the game of life was made to appeal specifically to religious folks
@@memesthatmakeyouwannadie3133 just checked my facts to make sure. The game of life came out in 1860, Monopoly came out in 1935.
In the 19th century a lot of games had moral messages. Perhaps they were following Milton Bradley, apparently his family was so religious growing up that they wouldn't even go to the theatre. So that explains the aversion to dice in some regard
4:25 I almost choked on my food when he said “right back into the clutches of the orphans”
one of the huge problems with earlier versions was that The Game Life was basically pure luck with only slight decision making as part of the game; it was essentially Candy Land with a bigger board and another theme when you break it down. Later versions added a lot more variety and decision making that added a significant amount of skill to the game (stills some luck, but the game was not just an advanced version of Candy Land)
Good lord yes when you're playing this one it feels like you're along for the ride.
Still fun though!
What Year specifically it turned out to be better version?
I have 1970's and 1997 versions
didnt the later LATER versions also remove those too
@@asmrjackunboxinggames4328 sometime int he early to mid 90s, I played the 80s version and it's only slightly better then the 70s version with only slightly more agency but in the end, you're still mostly at the mercy of the dice; we got tired of playing after about a year and I have only played it maybe 2 or 3 times since the late 80s.
So what you're saying is that the earlier versions accurately represent real life?
The Game of Life: Fury of the Orphans
Can’t wait for the 78k at the start of life to make a comeback
So my family had the 1960s edition of Life, which my dad owned as a child, and we played it a lot. The orphans space only applied to you if you had no children, but the first player over the toll bridge collected twenty grand from every other player passing over it afterwards. The 50 to 60 age range of squares were allways an ugly, violent rance to cross the bridge first.
“Retire to the country and become a philosopher” as something you do when you lose genuinely got a laugh out of me.
I played this exact game twice with my family. Both times, someone rolled at the end of the game and won with that 10% chance.
U R A N I U M F E V E R
wild that the 1970s lasted eighty years
I had this version, but the doctor's salary was $25,000. I remember a friend having the version with $50,000. Wikipedia says the dollar values doubled during the print run, but nothing more specific.
You probably have the 1960's version, a good way to tell is instead of Bankrupt losers go to the "poor farm"
@@kamsandwich It definitely had the verbiage you talk about in the video. I particularly remember the part about retiring to the state and becoming a philosopher. Even seven year old me knew that was ridiculous.
I have a great uncle who actually still has a copy of the 70s edition of the game of life, a few years back we played a round of it with him
That poor man got fleeced no less than 5 times by those goddamn orphans
I own this version. My family hates it. It’s like candyland but it takes a half hour to play.
Why do you think the game of life has remained so popular for so long? It seems that games like GoL and Monopoly, which are both notoriously boring to play get a bunch of spin offs and new releases and seem to sell well.
Game of Life is great for a small gathering setting as it requires little investment to play while producing some "wacky moments" that can entertain the group
Because it's easy to retheme without changing any of the rules, and because it requires zero brainpower to play.
@@alaeriia01this is the real reason
Monopoly and Life aren't "games", they're "activities".
Survivor fallacy.
Ah yes, the timeless classic, The Game of Dying Rich! Where you want to live in the cheapest most run down house imaginable just to save money.
Now Careers was an interesting twist on the theme. Money can be your goal but it doesn't have to be! You can also go for fame or happiness or a combination of all three.
This was the version i had as a kid and i always thought it was weird when the new versions had cards instead of stuff written on the spaces
“Get Enron’d, nerd.”
man i just discovered your channel and i love these board game videos
You know a game is bad if Valefisk doesn’t need to change the rules in order to put it on his channel.
I remember as a kid in the 2000s, my dad still had his 70s copy of Life. But the rulebook was missing so we just made up the rules as we went along, and didn't know about the red soace rule. So the orphan loop was never an issue.
Mind you this is really 80s Game of Life since the first half of the decade was still using the board from the 60s.
Also 60s and 70s Game of Life are pretty much identical as far as rules go. The only difference is the board layout which is far more windy and disorganized in the 60s. It wasn't until 1992 that MB started fubaring everything.
EDIT Oh wait there is one thing 60s has going for it. You only have to give money to the Orphans if you're childless in that version.
It's funny how, to this day, people still think there's something wrong with them if their life doesn't follow the exact path and timing of this board game.
You know this game was made in the US when you win life, not by winning the nobel prize or donating to charity, but having lots of money.
For some reason in the German version all the amounts of money are halfed
Ah, you must have been playing the *East* German version of Life.
@@Firguy haha you couldn't own a house in that one, maybe a commie block flat. Its probably just the strong D-Mark
Love this channel youre gonna kick the algorithms ass soon😻🙏
I can't wait for the game of life : dystopia
Aka 2030 edition.
Instead of going to college or a job, you decide whether to rent a fallout shelter or stock up on ammo.
My grandfather used to tell me about how he hoped I would not enter the vicious cycle that he did in his 70s- you know, buying a yacht, feeling guilty and donating to a bunch of orphans, and then using the money left over to buy another yacht.
Sure, you can go ahead and retire penniless because the orphans stole all your money, but at least you have 7 yachts to your name. That's why you just instantly win.
I think you definitely landed on a winning video format with these board game videos, keep it up!
This was great. Thanks for posting it!
This is the version me and my family still play...
This channel will blow up mark my words💯
LETS GO ANOTHER KAMSANDWICH VIDEO
I don't find this weird at all because this is the only version of Life I own.
this channel's gonna blow up with one of these vids
been watching you awhile now and now have subbed. good video man
Another banger from you, nice vid
Oh i have this. I never thought it was weird. Whats funny is that you didnt talk ab the toll bridge. I made it pass first one time and my sisters friend kept landing on a space that knocks her behind the bridge 7 times. It was the most unlucky rolls.
Love when board games have bugs like video games lol
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That was frustrating to watch. $5,000 for college tuition, $2,000 of which they're responsible due to the scholarship. I had a hard time getting past that.
Love ur series about weird board games
Oh man, this is the one I played as a kid, despite being born in the 2000s. Box was falling apart, but the board was great. Didn’t play it too often though.
Underated channel
I miss starting with a year's worth of wages.
This is the Game of Life I'm used to. I need to look to see how much the modern versions have changed.
I have the 1980s version and it's still basically candy land, so it's only fun once. IIRC the orphans only get you if you don't have children, but you can definitely end up with more than your fair share of yachts.
The main thing I remember is that the spinner really sucked. It would stick or come loose or basically do anything except spin.
finally someone making content about board games and i havent heard the phrase "settlers of catan" yet. i couldnt be happier
Dude, my grandma has this version
Why don’t you have more subs love your content.
This was still the version in the mid to late 80s too. I don't remember when they finally did the revamp. And I don't have the revamp version either.
this is the game of life i grew up with
Im most looking forward to $5000 total college tuition coming back so my kids can actually afford to go.
I love Game of Life, and this version looks cool, except for the Millionaire Tycoon mechanic, glad they took that out.
I’m pretty sure there’s the rule if you move backwards you ignore the rewards or penalties if you move backwards
Good video
are ya goin to do more bored games? if yes i am subbin uwu.
I can't wait until the orphans get their clutches on Jeff Bezos
My parents own a German version of this game, it's a classic
new vidya pog
Do a video on the changes to the game over the years
Bro, I played the version explained in this video. I old
wh..what happens if multiple people wanna roll the final thing? do they just both roll? what if the first guy gets their number immediately, does the second guy even get to try? how do they decide who rolls first?
The 70s... That's Golden Era Ghaddafi.
I may not be able to bring the colonel back...
But I can fight to keep his dream alive.
That is insane.
3:34 that’s in the future 😱😱😱
Played this version a lot in the 80s as a kid. I think we pretty much decided everyone got the $50k salary, bc it seemed too unbalanced otherwise.
I hope that I get to start life with almost 80,000 dollars in the future
So we got Uranium and orphans, right? So what if we out them together and made Uranium orphans? Uranium gives and orphans take, what now?
YEAH OK BUDDY
This game puts another meaning to gambling for resurrection.
Ah yes. The other game of life. The bad one.
I sense... your channel will blow the fuck up in the future.
Neat
The German edition I think has been based on the 70s edition up to the 90s
If the 1970's version is a time machine, what does it mean that I grew up with the 1960's version?
Between the mandatory yachts and the hordes of orphans, ya kinda feel bad for the boomers.
"Discovering $240,000 of uranium." This is actually gold or something and you've changed it to make a joke about how obsessed people were in the 70s with uranium, right? Right!?
Can you cover lawn games? Spike ball kan jam etc
Good idea
I hate the orphans!
What happens if two players go to the poor place, each pick a number risking it all and hit it on their spin? Or do the players all have to pick different numbers and there's one spin? Is there a spin-off?
They go in order of when they get there, each person makes the spin seperately at the end of their turn. So if one person fails the spin and you are the only one left, you will automatically win if you go to millionaire because you're the only one with money. If for some bizarre reason you choose to go for it and miss, everyone will tie because they finish with $0.
This was the version I always played as a kid because my parents had their copy from when they were kids. Much more fun than the more modern versions, in my opinion.