Museum of Failure includes Trump's Board Game

[Jimbo101]

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A new museum in Helsingborg displays more than 70 failed products and objects, including the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Sony Betamax, Harley-Davidson perfume, and the Donald Trump board game. According to curator Samuel West, "none of the companies that I contacted wanted to cooperate.

I approached quite a few innovation directors and asked them for examples of failure that they've learned from. I thought it would be easy to get them to collaborate but none of them -- zero -- choose to cooperate."

The curator urges people to accept failure -- "as an essential aspect of progress and innovation."

[Takket]

1. We actually had that back in the 80s lol

[Dave Starsky]

2. It's not a bad game, actually.

It's no Acquire, but it's sort of fun. There were a lot of worse games produced back then.

Obviously, he had nothing to do with its creation.

[CincyDem]

4. Acquire - there's a blast from the past. Gotta love those 3M Bookshelf games. n/t

[Dave Starsky]

6. Twixt, Feudal... So many great ones.

Very brainy--albeit fun--games that seemed perfectly appropriate to store on a bookshelf.

I, myself, am the proud owner of the 1999 Hasbro edition of Acquire, which is somewhat of a collectors item.

[CincyDem]

8. Nice. Twixt was fun. I also remember Jumpin, Oh-Wah-Ree and Quinto

Lots of family fun in those bookshelves. Ours are long gone but were well worn on the way out. Thanks for the reminder.

[MattP]

3. Betamax was way better than VHS but Sony overpriced it

[HAB911]

5. It remained the choice of pros

similar to ReplayTV vs TiVo, sometimes the better technology does not win out for many reasons

[Victor_c3]

9. I read an interesting article about how pornography drives technology

It basically stated that beta lost out to VHS because porn distributors favored the cheaper VHS format. It also talked about other advances, but that is the most relevant to this conversation.

[Dave Starsky]

7. The porn industry also embraced VHS.

In-home porn was a novel thing back then, and consumers didn't care how the chroma looked on an oscilloscope.