Hasbro Operation

by Hasbro

Product Features

• Doctor, the patient is here to see you
• Use all your skill and coordination to remove the patient's "ailments" with the tweezers
• If you successfully remove the ailment you collect the amount shown on your card
• The winner is the player with the most money after all the pieces have been removed
• Ailments include: Brain Freeze - an ice-cream cone located in the brain
• Without setting off the buzzer and making the patient's nose light up
• Writer's Cramp - a pencil in the forearm, Water on the Knee - a pail of water in the knee and tons more

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 10.6 x 15.8 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000DMFM
• Item model number: 4545
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 years and up
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,633 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Surely countless medical careers have been launched because of this humorous game. The Operation game board features Sam the patient, lying atop a red plastic "operating table" with 12 body cavities exposed. Players perform highly skilled procedures with a pair of tweezers such as removing a broken heart or butterflies in the stomach. This kind of surgery requires a steady hand! Doctors must remove the offending body part without touching the metal lining of the cavity. Touch the metal edge, and you'll set off the buzzer and make Sam's nose light up. Then the designated Specialist steps in--for double the fee! If you're playing solo, try performing all 12 operations without getting zapped. Two AA batteries are required. Operation is for one or more players. --Elizabeth Ward

Product Description

Perform a successful operation and you earn money - make a mistake, and you set off an alarm! Cavity Sam's got butterflies in the stomach, spare ribs and writer's cramps! Remove these with the tweezers, but don't get caught by the buzzer. One or more players. Requires 2 "AA" batteries (not included).

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195 of 209 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Operation & Cavity Sam - The Same Today As In Yesteryear..., May 24, 2004

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Sheila Chilcote-Collins "Sheila Renee Chilcot... (Collinswood, Van Wert, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Operation (Toy)

When I read all of the bad reviews for this Gen X classic board game, I just laughed! Especially the review about the young child that played this game and got so nervous because of the buzzer that he/she threw up! Then... I wondered about the world we live in... Who would have thought that a simple game like Hasbro's Operation could make a person question the social decline of the next generation?

Firstly, Gen Y parents... This is a game for 6 to 12 year olds. it's called "reading the front of the box before you buy".

Secondly, the pieces and the cavities that the pieces fit in are the EXACT same size, made of the EXACT same plastic, and is an EXACT duplicate of the game board I owned in the 70's, so stop your GEN Y whining!

The object of the game is to practice, have a steady hand and beat your opponent. It ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE EASY! Just like the Gen Y's offspring is being taught today - if it's too difficult, too scary, too loud, too ANYTHING, then it's just OK to throw it down and give up. What a wimpy generation we soon will have running this country in 25 to 30 years.

I had three kids, ages 6 to 12 over to our house and got out this game for them to play with. I helped the 6 year old some but all three ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! Obviously, they are the exception to the rule among the children being raised today...

Cavity Sam is the patient and you are pitted against your opponent with "doctor" cards that describe what part of the body to operate on and if successful, get paid. If your oppponent isn't successful, you get the next shot at the same body part but with a "specialist" card. Specialist, of course, get more money for operations than do doctors. If you touch the sides of the body cavity with the tweezers, Sam's nose lights up and a loud buzzer sounds. The person with the most money in completed operations wins!

This also teaches kids about body parts, reading, and to establish some great hand/eye coordination. Much more than, oh... let's say a Game Boy or an X Box would. Great family fun! Two "D" batteries not included...

Happy Playing!

62 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a classic fun game that any child can enjoy, September 14, 1999

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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Operation (Toy)

This game is one of those classics you just have to have. It is great for boys and girls with a wide age range. It's good for manual dexterity and gets lots of laughs. Could be frustrating for the younger range, but you can just ignore the buzzer. The only drawback is that the pieces can get lost, otherwise we give it 2 thumbs up- (my kids ages 11,9,5 all enjoy it).

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars updated classic is still fun, July 23, 2003

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audrey (white mtns) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Hasbro Operation (Toy)

Like a lot of people, I have fond memories of this classic game. Our cousins had it, and we were always excited when we visited them so we could play, but if we did anything to annoy them they wouldn't bring it out. Oh yes. Good times.

So we got the game out of nostalgia and we have enjoyed it. The pieces are all here -- wishbone, breadbasket, wrenched ankle, broken heart -- 12 in all. They are smaller than I remember, but that may or may not reflect reality. It runs on 2 D batteries, and when they run low the buzzer stops working. There's no on/off switch.