Word: parcheesi
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...guy’s basement where you used to drink PBR throughout high school, the rooms at One House are sprinkled with foosball tables, a comfy couch, TV, a pool table, and stacks of board games, including Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and—for the really wild—Parcheesi...
...lesson from Disney and an army of developers, who are betting fortunes on the idea that everyone from young families to retirees wants to eat in a theme restaurant and live in a Frank Capra set, where the paint never peels and families gather after dinner to play Parcheesi. And so contractors are carving a 430-acre town out of cornfields north of Washington, replete with sidewalks and gazebos and town squares and the transplanted totems of an easier age. The deep American nostalgia for rural life may owe more to fantasy than memory, but it is a theme that...
Someday, of course, people of Jeffrey's generation will be the parents in control, and they will be casually hooking up V chips to CD-ROMs and the Internet so that their children can play nonviolent, smut-free, four-dimensional Parcheesi with friends in Bangalore while listening to symphonic background music. Until then, though, any attempt at a techno-fix like the V chip will put the inmates in charge of the asylum...
...biggest change in toy design theory since my sandbox days seems to be the downfall of the traditional board game. Gone are such dinosaurs as "Operation!" "Tiddly-Winks" and "Chutes and Ladders." Child World promotes only a few games, like "Scrabble," "Parcheesi" and "Trouble"; the first two are presented both in traditional form and in "deluxe editions." The yuppie fave "Scrabble Deluxe" features raised spaces which lock the letters in place, presumably so that your $1000 Lhasa Apso does not meander by and mess up the game. As much as I can tell, "Deluxe Parcheesi" appears to be a contradiction...
Selchow, which also manufactures Parcheesi and Scrabble, will launch its first Trivial Pursuit advertising campaign. The ads will ask frustrated consumers to be patient until the company can get more games into stores...