I FOUND one...
Sep. 4th, 2007 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pen_gruntFor months, nay, YEARS I've been searching for this board game:
This board game is called "Reward". It's from around 1954.
It is special because:
• The object of the game, so far as we could tell, was to move a marble along the playing board, occasionally sliding down into valleys and lakes. Your opponent's marble may or may not have been chasing you. I'm not sure.
• It's a heck of a lot of fun to roll the marble down over the 3-D plastic landscape.
• Kids love it.
• We never could figure out the proper way to play it because...
• It has no discernible rules.
• Adults HATED it.
• My Grandmother hated it so much that one day she gave it away without telling us. Thus prompting a 15-year search for another like it.
• I've consulted "Toy Experts" and "Nostalgia Experts" (both of which have WAY cooler jobs than I'll ever have), and no one has even HEARD of this game.
I was starting to believe it was a figment of my imagination, but my memories were corroborated by my equally-nonsensical-game-adoring brother and sister. Both of whom remember loving it for the same reasons I did, cannot remember how it's actually SUPPOSED to be played, and recall Grandma saying triumphantly when we asked for it one holiday, "I HATED that game! I gave it away!"
I found it on eBay. Did I buy it? Nooo... I was (at the time) unwilling to pay $19.99 plus $7.95 shipping for it. In retrospect, I should have snapped it up.
Keep an eye out for one for me...it shall be my brother's next birthday present.
It'll go well with the original Star Trek Enterprise model kit from the 1960's that I got him a few years ago.
This board game is called "Reward". It's from around 1954.
It is special because:
• The object of the game, so far as we could tell, was to move a marble along the playing board, occasionally sliding down into valleys and lakes. Your opponent's marble may or may not have been chasing you. I'm not sure.
• It's a heck of a lot of fun to roll the marble down over the 3-D plastic landscape.
• Kids love it.
• We never could figure out the proper way to play it because...
• It has no discernible rules.
• Adults HATED it.
• My Grandmother hated it so much that one day she gave it away without telling us. Thus prompting a 15-year search for another like it.
• I've consulted "Toy Experts" and "Nostalgia Experts" (both of which have WAY cooler jobs than I'll ever have), and no one has even HEARD of this game.
I was starting to believe it was a figment of my imagination, but my memories were corroborated by my equally-nonsensical-game-adoring brother and sister. Both of whom remember loving it for the same reasons I did, cannot remember how it's actually SUPPOSED to be played, and recall Grandma saying triumphantly when we asked for it one holiday, "I HATED that game! I gave it away!"
I found it on eBay. Did I buy it? Nooo... I was (at the time) unwilling to pay $19.99 plus $7.95 shipping for it. In retrospect, I should have snapped it up.
Keep an eye out for one for me...it shall be my brother's next birthday present.
It'll go well with the original Star Trek Enterprise model kit from the 1960's that I got him a few years ago.
