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This Kind of Trouble is Lots of Fun!
Wait, don’t run
You’ve got trouble. Wait — don’t run!
In the decade that made up the 1970’s, you were likely urged to embrace trouble. Assuming that you were spending a lot of time watching TV (which you likely were, as there was no Internet or social media), you got the assignment.
No need for fear, you didn’t have to run, after all.
“This kind of trouble is lot of fun!”
“Trouble” — a family board game created by Milton Bradley (now Hasbro), was an immediate hit when it was released to but public in 1965. A simple objective, really, the game was as simple as it could be. Basically, 2–4 players are given a colour, which is represented by four pegs that are to be used on the square board. In the centre, is the technological wonder — the “Pop-O-Matic” which houses the die, which each player presses just to make the tension even more fun. The objective is for all players to get every one of their pieces around the board without having to go back to the start. The first player who does this successfully wins (If you’re interested in the actual rules of the game, check them out here). A simple concept for sure, but let’s not pretend that la pièce de résistance of said game wasn’t the Pop-O-Matic feature that resided squarely…
