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The Wikipedia article for Mouse Trap talks about some sort of game play involved in Mouse Trap, but we’re just not buying. All we remember was putting together all the little pieces and setting off the trap over and over again. Then we lost all the pieces and the metal balls became a projectile. That’s how we remember Mouse Trap.
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AVGN win?
indeed
Yep. The new AVGN should have been the video shown here.
Oooohhh! I loved this game!
My parents bought it for me for Christmas one year. ME!
My sis and bro were soooo jealous!
The song is Chariots of Fire by Vangelis. Not anything by Yanni. N00b.
Chariots of Fire FTW!
Yanni WTF?
Oh thank goodness somebody else realized this.
There is NO comparing Yanni to Vangelis. NONE.
I wanted this game so badly. I played it a few times and then all the fun just went out of it. I don’t like games that require a ton of assembly. XD
my local pub has this game!
that ought to be fun… drunk people trying to assemble something.
Yeah.
I just want to say how truly disappointed I am with this site, these are all the worst nostalgic items ever, its like “hey remember chairs” we used to sit in them when we were little. My son just played Mouse Trap last night, totally brought be back, to last night, how nostalgic. I’m going to have to bring back some real things for you guys. props to the people who do, but this one sucks, like most.
Or you could just leave, and take all the “If you were born a year later than me, anything you think is nostalgic sucks” people with you.
Actually, you can take all of the “This is too old for me to remember! Your nostalgia sucks!” people with you.
Grow up and learn to deal with the fact that not everybody grew up in the exact same 10-year-span you did.
Amen to that.
here here
I concur!
wow. way to completely not understand anything. I wasn’t saying that things you find nostalgic suck, I was saying how do you feel nostalgic about things that you see everyday. If you have a car when your 16 and don’t see it on the road for ten years then when you finally see it you feel nostalgic, not if you see the car everyday. Your a moron. and just to add I was totally target age range for this product and remember the release of the game and getting it and it sucking. If I had not seen this product since then every time I went to any store that sells board games, then I would feel just like the ten year old girl you are getting fingered by your uncle.
Thank you Mr. Party pooper. Seriously, these things bring back memories, even if they are still available. We’re not remembering mousetrap, we’re remembering our old game of mousetrap with the board ripped at were you fold it, all the balls being replaced with marbles, and the little cage thing that never worked except three hours later when you were under it, just when your little cousin was getting board. That my friend, is what we’re remembering.
Here here!
I just want to say how truly disappointed I am with n00bs like you, mark.
Haha, I thought I was the only one who never learned to play the game and just had fun setting the trap!
Wait… Mouse trap was a GAME?
I know! I don’t think I ever played by the rules once but it was all good fun.
Exactly, we always set it up before we started, then just let it off “accidentally” while our sibling was under it.
That is exactly what I thought when I saw this.
“AVGN win?”
My thoughts exactly.
Aww come on, you guys are no fun. Its nostalgic to us because we played it when we were little. It happened in our past, yes? Who cares if its still around today, that doesnt make any difference. it was in fact around when a bunch of us were little as well, therefore its nostalgic.
Mousetrap was definitely my favorite game ever! Me and my sisters actually did try to play it the correct way, if you can believe that, lol. We ended up breaking the little piece that hung on top of the bathtub so we taped it back together- it only worked for one trap set.. then you had to retape it up again. But we kept playing with it that way! =)
Not to go off topic here, but THIS is why we have this site. (I love your comment :^) )
this is now my favorite thing to come of Mouse Trap
That video is full of win! Thanks for posting it!
Whirr, clack. This was such a cool game because of the trap and the basket. It had moving parts! It was like ten different games at once. They don’t even try to think of ones like these anymore.
Then we lost all the pieces and the metal balls became a projectile.
LOLed. Seriously, did anyone actually play the game?
I think I played the game once, it bored me so I went back to hijacking my cousin’s box and just setting the trap up!
I loved this! And it was a game I could get my parents to play with me – they had fun too, and it didn’t take forever, like monopoly. And I’d say it counts as nostalgia ’cause I was playing it atleast 42 years ago!
exactly – it counts as nostalgia because it’s at least (42, really)? Well I know at least 35 or so.
I never actually played it, just set it up and set it off.
I’m getting the feeling that everyone did.
Yeah, me too. There was something fascinating about having your own Rube Goldberg device, just like what Wile E Coyote used in the cartoons (but not so dangerous).
And it’s nostalgic for me, coz I haven’t seen it since I was a kid.
My little brother has a newer version of the game. I think the only difference from the old version is different pics on the board and box. Brighter colours too.
ok I’m getting off topic, but I love it when people spell “colours” not “colors”. Are you Canadian or British? Sorry, just having a weird moment…
Or Australian.
loveddddd mouse trap! but mine came missing the larger stand for the top of the staircase-looking piece, and with two see-saws. i used the extra see-saw in its place, but it didn’t always work :\
Had this one as a kid in the 60s…. This and Green Ghost were always my favorite games.
Definitely Rube Goldberg inspired… WIN
Oh, snap, knowing what a Rube Goldberg machine is FTW!
I used to fantasize about getting caught in the trap. I’m starting to think I was a strange child.
Oh yes I remember this game it actually took longer to put it together than it did to play the game.But I loved it when I was growing up
I used to play this game with my dad…sort of. We’d never play the “game”, we’d just set it up, then roll the dice and see who got caught first. My board was ripped where it folded, and the game came in the BIGGEST BOX EVER.
The “NEW” Mouse Trap game is kinda crappy, I played it recently with my friend’s 6-year old. Trying to actually follow the rules with a kid of six is next to pointless, they get bored, and now they have these stupid cardboard pieces of cheese you’re supposed to trade for extra chances at turning the crank or something…it didn’t make any sense!
So yeah, I’m nostalgic for my OLD Mouse Trap game, the half-falling apart, colors faded, pieces broken and chipped and missing altogether one….cuz it brings back good memories of my dad, who passed away several years ago.
Aww. My mom wouldn’t let me have Mouse Trap.
i used to steal the mouses from my skool they were cute
Had some neighbor friends that had this but we never played it because we could never figure out how to put the damn thing together!
We had this in the 80s as well as similar though water themed game called Splish Splash (which we were only allowed to play outside). I can’t find a pic of Splish Splash, alas – all I get are links for a video game and baby bath toys, but it was fun! The object was to avoid having your little duck get dumped in one of the water barrels. Anyone else recall this one?
Mouse Trap was one that I played all the time. Can’t recall Splish Splash, but my fav game from back then was Uncle Wiggly… all I remember really was a rabbit with a monicle and a cane from the box, and that it was part of the Candy Land & Chutes and Ladders set… Nobody I know seems to recall that game at all!! Anyone remember it?
I have one of these! Not the same box though…
I used to just build the set (it always took a while…) and then play with it. Once I used real cheese to “feed” the mice; made a huge mess. I got into such big trouble from mom!
Lol, I love how the description is EXACTLY how I remember this game… Good times man, Good times.
Greatest. Game. EVAR!!!!!!111!!!!ELEVENTYONE