Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s

by Hasbro

Product Features

• 2400 trivia questions in six categories
• Cool retro packaging and questions written in a flashback tone
• Includes 4 collectible tokens based on 80's icons
• For 2 to 4 players or teams.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.7 x 10.6 x 15.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BNJITU
• Item model number: 44230
• Manufacturer recommended age: 18 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,835 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Rewind the decade of yuppies, big hair and break dancing! Play the popular trivia game's 80s edition, with cool retro packaging and questions written in a flashback tone! There are 2400 trivia questions in six categories to take you back to that colorful decade! Game includes 4 collectible tokens based on 80s icons.

Customer Reviews

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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still waiting for the Ultimate 80s Gaming Experience, But This is Nice, December 7, 2006

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Dorrie Wheeler - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s (Toy)

The 80s were such a fun and visual decade, it would have been nice if this game had an audio or visual component. A DVD would have been nice. Even if they didn't go the DVD route, if there were cards with pictures and a person had to name the item on the picture (like say a Rubik's cube) that would have been nice.

This is not the only 80s related game on the market. There is "The 80s Game," "Vh-1/Targets We Are The 80s" board game and "Name That Tune 80s Edition."

How does Trivial Pursuit 80s Edition measure up?

The game is nice. When you open the box you find the neatly folded game board. There are four player pieces--a care bear looking bear, a personal computer, a CD and a Trapper Keeper. There is also one die and the other small pieces used with the board game.

Four sets of trivia cards are included. The question categories include Headlines, TV, Movies, Music, Sports & Leisure, and Wild Card.

I will say the questions are better than they are in the I Love The 80s Game. The questions are challenging and varied in nature.

Here are a few sample questions-

"What British hair band topped the chart only one time with "Here I Go Again?" (music)

"What Aaron Spelling show was slated to star Bette Davis in her first weekly series until she took ill and was replaced by Anne Baxter?" (TV)

"What former Speaker of the House cashed in on his celebrity by appearing in ads for American Express and Miller Light?" (WC)

The game also comes with a travel game. The travel game features questions from Trivial Pursuit volume 6 which isn't 80s related.

In the age of Scene It, Trivial Pursuit 80s Edition is essentially another board game--except with 80s related questions. In comparison to the other 80s games on the market, this game has the best question assortment. It will be a fun game to play if you play with people who know a lot about the 80s. However, in my opinion, there is still no ultimate 80s game on the market.

Scene It games aren't always the answer because you can quickly start to see the same clip more than once. Someone needs to design an 80s game with visual card cues, an audio and a DVD component.

Until then, well we can just wait.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Awesome!, December 28, 2006

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Janet Boyer "Author, Blogger, Mystic" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s (Toy)

As Christmas was fast approaching, I hinted rather forcefully to my husband, expressing my great desire for owning Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's. To my great delight, he got it for me as a present. YAY!

But what good is it to have a game and no one to play with? See, I tend to clean up when it comes to Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition and, alas, no one will play with me! However, my husband agreed that he would, indeed, play the 80's version with me, especially since we were in the midst of this glorious decade from the ages of 10-19.

Can you believe that my rascally husband beat the pants off me the first time we played it?! The reason I mention this is because I feel that the 80's version of Trivial Pursuit will appeal to anyone who loves the decade of decadence, even if they aren't trivia (or board game) enthusiasts like my husband.

Not surprisingly, the packaging is excessive: rather than include the four stacks of cards in the questions box, they are individually nestled. There are four decorative game pieces straight from the 80's: a caramel colored Care Bear with a red and pink heart on its stomach, an old fashioned computer, a CD, and a purple Mead Trapper Keeper (OMG, remember those?!). The board is formatted like the Genus Edition, except this one has wild fluorescent colors and different categories. Game play, however, is exactly the same: work your way around the six category "stations" to earn colored "pie slices", then enter the center hub on an exact count--answering, correctly, a question chosen from the category of the opponents choice.

The six categories are:

* Blue - Headlines
* Pink - Television
* Yellow - Movies
* Purple - Music
* Green - Sports and Leisure
* Orange - Wild Card

Deciding to make Sports and Leisure green for the 80's edition was a bit confusing, at first, since the Genus edition has this category as orange! You'd think they'd make Sports and Leisure orange and the Wild Card category green...

My husband and I had a BLAST playing Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's. I couldn't BELIEVE it when he got a Music question asking "Which Rush frontman..." Because I'm a rabid Rush fan, even dragging my husband to the 30th anniversary concert, he knew it was Geddy Lee right away! Too funny!

Here are a few of the questions found in the 80's edition:

Headlines: "What automaker confessed to selling 40 cars damaged in test drives as new, in 1987?"

Television: "What surname did the Growing Pains family get, to honor a Mets pitching ace?"

Movies: "What pro wrestler played the grizzled commando in Predator armed with a hand-held helicopter minigun he called `Old Painless'?"

Music: "What four country legends toured together as the Highwaymen?"

Sports and Leisure: "What was the only team to win two World Series during the 1980's?"

Wild Card: "What 1988 novel told the tale of two Indian actors transformed to look like an angel and a devil?"

If you love the 80's, the Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's game is lively, fun, and, at times, totally hilarious! Not only that, you'll learn something, too!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, January 9, 2007

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This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s (Toy)

From the outside of the box I assumed it was going to be an 80s pop culture trivia. I tried to play it with 3 other people (all of which were children in the eighties) and the questions were very hard. I think if you were an adult in the 80s this is perfect, but if you grew up at that time this is not for you.