BLOCKBUSTERS


    (MB 1982)

 

    On the CD The Best of TV Quiz and Game Show Themes (Varese Sarabande 2000)

 
CONTENTS:
    Cardboard game platform with plastic gamefield screen
    Three two-sided gameboard sheets (six different boards)
    Colorform hexagon markers (red and white for the players, yellow for the bonus round)
    Booklet with fifty questions for each of twenty initial letters (1000 questions total)
    60 second sand timer
    Milton Bradley Bucks

GAME PLAY:
    Players answer questions that begin with a letter on the playfield to earn that hexagon.  One player tries to connect a series of hexagons frrom top to bottom, the other (or a two-player team) tries to connect from side to side. First to win two out of three plays a Gold Run across the board for a $5000 bonus.

DIFFERENCES TO TV SHOW:
    The bonus game uses the same single-letter questions as the regular game, instead of the special multiple-initial questions that gave the TV show variety.  Otherwise a faithful adaptation.

COMMENTS:
    A pretty good game, despite the cheap materials.  (A much more elaborate home version of Blockbusters was produced in the UK, where the game was a much bigger success.)   The Gold Run is hard to moderate, because the host has to keep thumbing through the booklet to get to the right letter.