Computer Gamer


Trivial Pursuit: Baby Boomer Edition

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Domark
Machine: Amstrad CPC464

 
Published in Computer Gamer #27

Trivial Pursuit: Baby Boomer Edition

The Baby Boomer question pack is the third in the Trivial Pursuit series and is aimed directly at those born during the post war baby boom. But that doesn't mean you won't know any of the answers if you are under 30. After all, everyone knows (or can guess) the colour of Noddy's hat or Elvis's middle name.

Naturally, the game plays exactly the same as the original and Young Players editions with the Trivial Pursuit question master still annoying everyone with his comments, players getting embarrassed over their dismal showing on the score tables and nobody being able to guess the tunes the computer tries to play.

Six new categories on sixties and seventies culture make up the latest edition. These include: Stage and Screen; Broadcasting; Nightly News; Publishing; Life and Times and RPM. For example, did you know that Harold Wilson banned Steptoe And Son on the 1964 polling day in case it kept Labour voters at home, or that the French and British agreed to build the channel tunnel in the early sixties, or that Daisy Duck is Donald Duck's girlfriend!

If you were born during the baby boom then this set of 3,000 questions is a must. Everyone else will still find it fascinating and a lot cheaper than the cards for the board game.