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craigstick17's Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture (Other)

[February 10, 2014 02:58:17 PM]

Limitations:
The player can only move 6 tiles, at most, during a period of their turn.
The player has to answer the question correctly to continue their turn or collect a pie piece.
Only one player can move at a time.
The player can only collect one pie piece at a time.

Affordances:
Each player gets a pop culture object (ie. cassette tape, lava lamp) to move around the board.
Each player uses a die to see how many tiles they can move.
Each player has to collect six pie pieces in order to beat the game.
Players use trivia cards and a DVD inside of some DVD playing device to answer questions.

How to Play:
Each player receives a game piece to move around the board. They then roll the dice to see who goes first. Once each players position is set, they then move around the board using the dice. After each move, the player is asked a trivia question pertaining to the colored tile they landed on. If they answer correctly, they get another turn. Else, the next player goes. To win, a player must collect the six pie pieces of each type of trivia in the game. This trivia, in this version of the game, is movies, tv, music, sports & games, buzz, and fads. These pie piece questions have the player use the included DVD to answer said question. Finally, the player must make it back to the middle of the board to answer the final trivia question and win the game.

First Play-through:
My first play-through of the game was fairly relaxed. A few of my friends were playing with me. After we rolled to set our turn order, the game started. The first major problem we faced was the relevancy of the trivia. Since this game was from 2003, a large portion of the trivia was outdated. This especially pertained to the buzz portion of the trivia. This usually meant that we all only had one turn before we got a question wrong and the next person went. When someone finally landed on the pie piece question, another problem arose. The DVD we were using was not scratched, but anytime we clicked on a menu item for a question it would take about 30 seconds before the question even came up. And when it did, we didn't know the answer, so it felt like a unneeded waste of time. What we did think was interesting was the amount of different questions that were on the DVD. During our play-through we never encountered the same question twice, so that was helpful. Eventually, one of us got allsix pieces and went to the middle of the game board. He played the final question and he got it right, thus ending the game. Overall, the game was not too frustrating
after one play-through. There seem to be enough questions on the DVD that the game could be played multiple times without having the same question twice. This goes doubly for the trivia cards.

Second Play-through: To start off, I played this again with the same group of people from the last time. We went through the same routine as last time and started the game. Everything was going fine until we started the DVD questions again. Although last time I said that there were plenty of questions to answer on the DVD, know I feel like after the first play-through we exhausted all the available questions on it. Every time we tried one of the questions, we would get one we had already answered. We tried this several times. Each time we got more and more frustrated. Eventually, we decided to just skip the DVD and answer the harder questions on the trivia cards and save the final question for the DVD. Once we got to the final question, we were pleased to find another unanswered question on the DVD. The player who had to answer missed it and game play resumed. When another player got to the final question, the same thing happened. Eventually, all the players were at the final question and nobody could get it right. We kept doing this until the questions started repeating themselves. At this point, we were all extremely frustrated at the DVD and had somebody just keep asking the questions from the trivia cards. I got the final answer right and won the game. After this play-through, I was extremely disappointed at the lack of more questions on the DVD. I know that it was a gimmick in itself for the time, but it still needed more questions. Seeing as the DVD has been exhausted of questions, I would probably never play this game again.