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Aggravation, only less aggravating.
Did anyone else make beats with the Pop-O-Matic? That was really fun.
I remember this but it was called frustration
Same, mine was called Frustration too.
Gotta love that Pop-O-Matic!! I’ve got the old version (picked up at an antique shop), a newer version (purchased at the local dept store), and the mini version on a pen (catalogue purchase). The pen is great! The board folds out, the pieces stay on, and best of all, the mini Pop-O-Matic is awesome!
Loved it when I was a kid. Now that I’m a (step)mom, it’s banned at our house. ARGH. (He can play it at his mom’s house, whom he only sees once a month or so.)
Was it called Touble in the States perhaps? Because over here in the UK it was called “Frustration!” But yeah, AWESOME game, we still have it at home, and even though I’m 20, I still love playing it haha!
Yeah, it was “Trouble” in the States.
Highly entertaining bugging my sis with the pop-o-matic. “POP!POP!POP!POPPOPPOPPOPPOP!!!”
In Finland it’s called Kimble.
Does the meaning of that equate to “trouble” or “frustration” in English? (just curious…)
No. Those who bought the license to do that game in here renamed it for some reason after the Fugitive – tv-series’ maincharacter Richard Kimble rather
than translating it (Frustration = turhautuminen or Trouble = pulma).
I remember playing that with my brothers, but my mom got irritated hearing the Pop-O-Matic, so we just tried to pop it really quietly. LOL Didn’t work so well.
One of the best things about this, espeacialy if you had siblings, was that it was really hard to cheat at. Nw, that didn’t mean we stopped accusing eachother of doing it….
Pkop! Pkop!
I loved the sound it made.
FAIL ALERT
This isn’t the original game like this, the original one was FRUSTRATION
No win here
Marketed first in the USA as “Trouble.” Later marketed in the UK as “Frustration.”
Historical sequence FAIL.
I can still recite that commercial word-for-word. I feel so old.
Sorry is a better game, though.
Trouble was okay, but I preferred “Headache”: Similar concept, but the pieces were cones that you could stack on top of each other.
Who remembers the jingle from the 90s ads? “It’s fun getting into Trouble! POP!POP!”
I loved this game as a child! It became my favorite after I grew out of CandyLand.
Trouble was a gateway drug – it led to Sorry, then Aggravation, and then Poker when your sister told you the wrong rules to win all of your money!
I never had this game, but LOVED playing it at friend’s houses!
My Brother and I played this alot. I have hours and hours of playing Trouble under my belt!
We got this as Kimble&for a pals’s birthday a few years back,we gave her a Winnie the Pooh-edition f it.I can tell it was epic win playing it totally drunk…
I loved this game. Still do.
I don’t know, did anyone else have a dickens of a time popping that bubble? I know I did. My aunt did too. You pratically had to stand up, take your fist and shove down real hard. damn thing.
This is a a great game still today & I’m over 40! As a child, my grandma had something similar but the board was huge, made out of something like plexi-glass & we used marbles & rolled the dice. It was called Wahoo! Same basic directions. Anybody ever heard of it or was it something just made up in our family?
my senior year of high school, my friends and i played the travel-size game at lunch. my friend was always blue, and she always won. we called her the “blue jew.”