Who remembers "Don't Break the Ice"?

[Rabrrrrrr]

Looks like Hasbro is making the game again!

I loved this one as a kid. One of those wonderful Hasbro "Fun but also you learn something" games.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. I hated that fucking game.

"Delicately" was not in my vocabulary at the time we had the game.

:P

[LostinVA]

17. Me too -- it was boring AND made my nerves bad

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I liked that one, but Don't Wake Daddy was my favorite. We play that

here every Sunday...without pieces...or the game even. :hi:

[bleedingheart]

4. my mom loved to have us play that game too!

she would even help us by sending us outside....but we would still manage to end up waking daddy...

[bertha katzenengel]

3. I do. HATED it.

It reminded me too damned much of what we had to do every single fucking day of our lives: be very, very careful, because you never know what's going to set Mom or Dad off. :scared: :angry:

But I'm not bitter. ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. It's certainly symbolic of living with an alcoholic

Not only teaches physics, also teaches the truth that no matter how careful you are, eventually daddy is gonna go into a drunken tirade.

Ah, childhood. How I don't miss certain parts of it.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. I played the shit out of that as a kid

man what a great game! I had most of the ones in that collection -

Ants in the Pants
Don't spill the Beans
the sewer fishing one that I can't remember the name of
Cootie

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. And the one that was an upright hollow cylinder, through which one shoved

little sticks in the plane horizontal to the axis, and then poured marbles into the top, which be caught by all the sticks. And then one removed the sticks one at a time, trying not to let any marbles down.

Can't remember the name of it, but my sister and I played the hell out of that one.

And pick up sticks. Always loved that.

Cootie was fucking great, too!!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. I remember the one with the marbles

do you remember the one, similar game, using monkeys with little hooked arms? Where you had to race your friend to get a monkey down from the top by removing little sticks?

[Debi]

11. Kerplunk? F'ing marbles everywhere...

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. That's it!

Though ours wasn't two stage.

[WCGreen]

15. Kurplunck????

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Oooh, you were 55 minutes late on that one, WCGReen

:hi:

[WCGreen]

21. I didn't look farther down the thread.....

My bad, as the kiddies and yuppies trying to be kiddies would say....

[Lex]

9. Operation!

with the tweezer-thingies? You pulled little gizmos out of the fellow.

Bzzzzzt. And his nose would light up red.

I loved and hated that game!

[Debi]

16. We gave Operation to a girlfriend of ours as a wedding gift

(she was in med school at the time)

Okay, we also gave them cash, but they loved the game (at least that's what they said in their thank you card).

[Left Is Write]

10. I bought one for my kids a couple of years ago.

Do not be fooled! This is not the game of your youth! It is a cheap, flimsy imitation!

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Nothing is as good any more. For fuck's sake, Tonkas are PLASTIC!

I was deeply saddened when Tonka decided to go plastic. Tonkas, at least, should be metal and well constructed. Part of the fuyn of a Tonka was being able to push them off picnic tables and other high places, and they still worked.

Cheap fucking plastic shit.

[Lex]

19. My Dad used to say my brother could destroy steel ball bearings

if he'd gotten them as a toy.

But PLASTIC Tonkas? Yikes.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. That and Kerplunk were my two favourite games as a kid

[RayOfHope]

18. tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

ARGH! I don't think Hasbro quit making it. Nothing is as fun as listening to several kindergartners play this game over and over (I used to teach, we had it in my classroom) taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap

Now my kids have it, but its too hard for them to get all the ice cubes in by themselves. I'm constantly putting it back together for them. I think this game might get 'disappeared' soon.

[scarlet_owl]

22. I had that one, along with Don't Spill the Beans and Cootie.