My dad bought the game and it was another one we played together and separately. Besides the ever increasing casual market that tends to love these types of games, I do believe there was also that market for the older computer nerds of the time who were looking back to their childhood. In 1998 the Game of Life was given its first computer treatment. I fondly remember the Amiga version of the board game Clue, and the Windows and Genesis versions of Monopoly being played by the both of us. He was a big fan of computer card games, I can remember him playing on the Amiga and other computers for hours on these. He was not however, without a few of the more “casual” games. In the days of the C64, Amiga, DOS and Windows he primarily dug himself into intricate CRPGs that took quite some time to complete. He was a big fan of pinball games, then arcade games, and in 1982 he bought his first computer in the Commodore 64. Long before computers the nerd had only so many vices, board games were one.

Guess who else had a fondness for the Game of Life? My father was a long standing nerd of many areas.

I have much more to say about the board games but they shall be saved for a separate review. The Game of Life was a favorite amongst these, and while I also had it at home the time spent at my grandmothers playing that game shall never leave me. My grandfather usually controlled the television, there were no computer or handheld games to be played, just your standard kids toys or a plethora of board games when grandma felt like setting them up and banking. Fondest of these were the times I played it with my grandmother whenever my parents had dropped me off there to be watched. I always had fond memories of the board version of the Game of Life. My Companion Video Review Of The Game Of Life The Game Of Life – 1998 Windows Computer Game Review

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