Lokar's Review of Trivial Pursuit Unhinged

Trivial Pursuit Unhinged

First Released Mar 24, 2004
released

PC
XBOX
PS2

This could have been so much better.

User Rating: 5 | Trivial Pursuit Unhinged XBOX

By Lokar | Review Date: November 20, 2006

Years ago, there was an arcade version of the highly popular game Trivial Pursuit. It had figures that walked very slowly to the center of the screen, where they did the appropriate question-and-answer duties. The Cleopatra lady was one of the most fun. I loved her music. Home video games were much simpler back then, so there was not really much of a hope of getting a decent console translation of the experience. It became one of my favorites at the arcade.

Step forward to 2004, when designers decided to grace us with this weird and hard-to-understand copy of America's favorite party puzzler. There are bizarre, unnecessary screens where the walkways fly around, the game board looks like a pile of gems and the characters have no charm whatsoever. It seems they tried to make this look like every other game out there, to attract the sort of people who, uh, hate trivia games.

But why ruin a good thing? You won't increase the audience, you'll only alienate all the established fans and confuse the new. Surely good souls out there can see to it that the original arcade classic is brought to a current game system in its proper form. Until that day, the people responsible for this dull travesty ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Trivial Pursuit Unhinged

This could have been so much better.

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