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Memorable Quotes From Game Commercials
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I was inspired by the recent "Games we used to play as kids" list to create this one. There are a number of board game commercials with quotes that have just the right amount cheese and nostalgia for us to inject into everyday conversation to subtely tell our friends, "Hey, I like boardgames. Look at me, I'm a geek". Hell...Movie Geeks do it all the time ("We are the Knights who say Nih!" "That's incontheivable"  , why can't we Boardgame Geeks do it as well? Since my memory isn't what it used to be, feel free to correct any misquotes and add anything I may have inevitably missed. Perhaps some of you youngn's could add some of the new classics that I'm not aware of. Or maybe you geezers could fill us all in on some classic Classics 
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Posted Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:54 am
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In my opinion, the hands down classic.
Girl: I won.
Boy: Where?
Girl: There, diagonally.
Boy: Pretty sneaky sis.
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"It takes a very steady hand...."
I use this one way too often in real life.
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"I'm the sole survivor"
I must admit that I had forgotten about this gem until somone on another list mentioned it. I used to love this game, although I'm not sure I ever played by the correct rules. I just kinda pulled the tabs in and out to figure out how everything worked. Did anyone every succeed in 'drawing' all the pixie dust off the inside of an Etch-a-Sketch to reveal the steal Hershey's kiss inside?
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"You sank my Battleship!"
I love the "Bob Dobbs" artwork on these 1960s boardgames. I've got an old edition of Stratego that has a particularly goofy cover.
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"Its all in the wrist action"
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"He knocked my block off"
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"Bonkers is fun. Bonkers is nice. Bonkers is never the same game twice!" That damned ditty has been going through my head for the last 25 years. :-p
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"You'll get caught up in the crossfire...crossFIRE...CROSSFIRE!!!"
With headband-and-mullet-wearing winner exclaiming, "YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!"
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The Candyland commercial I remember had three little girls sing in unison "OOOOOOH Daddy's going down, down, down!"
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"Play......the game.....of Li-ife!"
Eeek! Now that song is stuck in my head! Somebody sing me the Bonkers song fast!
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"Push the plunger down, set the timer
Put the pieces in place
don't be slow
'cuz in Perfection you gotta move 'em fast (move 'em fast)
Or the pieces pop up before you put in the last!
And that's Perfection!"
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I'm sure all the gamers will love this one... "Yahtzee, the FUN game that makes THINKING... fun!"
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I can still hear the voice over announcer on the commercial saying "Ga NIP, Ga NOP! It's Ga NIP Ga NOP!" "One player Ga NIPs, the other Ga NOPs..." (quote from a retro toy site)
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If you've got trouble, wait! Don't run! This kind of Trouble is lots of fun! Pop-O-Matic pops the dice [should have been die - ed.]. Pop a six and you move twice. Race your men around the track and try to send the others back. That's Pop-O-Matic Trouble! Watch the dice in the plastic bubble, it pops you in and out of trouble. Here comes Sister! LOOK OUT, JACK!! You've got trouble. You go back. The game is fun for Dad and Mother, and Sis can trouble her mean old brother.
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STRAA--TEEEEE--GOOH-OOOH!
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If you wanna win the game
you gotta (blah blah blah blah)
And get the most marbles with your HIPPOS!
Playin' Hungry Hungry Hippos! (Ba da ba da ba da)
Hungry Hungry Hippos! (Ba da ba da ba da)
(I never understood what you had to do to win the game according to the commercial.)
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"There's no such thing as a friendly game of Ruffhouse."
This was, of course, the English edition of the popular German game, Rufhaus. :-)
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"Spin the Spinner and call the dots
Twister will tie you up in a knot
You reach, and stretch.
You balance and twist.
Try it once, you'll get the gist."
No two twists come out the same,
Twister is a Milton Bradley Game."
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Music in the commercial had the lyrics:
"Mr. Mouth...Mr Mouth..."
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"Roll the dice, move the mice, build a traaaap!"
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Kid 1: "I'll use my broadsword!"
Kid 2: "FIRE OF WRATH!"
My brother and I still quote this commercial often...
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Someone erroneously referenced it earlier:
"I'm going up, up, up the ladder!"
"Daddy's going down, down, down!"
(The US version, with s/Snakes/Chutes.)
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Board Game: Blip
[Average Rating:3.81 Unranked]
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"Blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip..."
Tomy should have had a class-action suit on their hands for this one. Dear god this wretched, buzzing, boring thing wasn't anywhere close to what was advertised.
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I was in the 1987 commercial for the board game Dr. Tangle. I am trying to track down the video to show my students. Anyone have an idea? The producers no longer exist apparently and I can't seem to get a lead. Any help is greatly appreciated.
corts1117@gmail.com
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Posted Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:54 am
<cries>
wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
those wiggly worms!
AHHHH!
When was the last time you saw a commercial on t.v. for a board game...