My husband and I both have memories of loving the game as children and we knew our kids, especially our oldest child, would love it, but the modern version just isn't the same and to me the modernizing made it much worse, so I didn't buy it.
But, then I decided to look on Ebay. There are tons of old versions of Battleship out there from pretty much any year over the past few decades!!
For not much more money than the current version sold in stores, I got a 1998 edition of the game in excellent condition and without the annoying modern twists. It's perfect! And there's been a lot of this going on around here:
So fun!!Ebay also didn't fail me a couple years ago when I was looking for the more classic Strawberry Shortcake dolls that I remembered from my childhood, not the souped up versions they sell today! I got some super sweet, gently used dolls made in the 1980s!
Because really sometimes I just don't want the newest thing, sometimes the older models were better!
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I LOVED battle ship! HOURS of fun! AND, so true that new is not always better!
ReplyDeleteThis is SO true! What a good idea to find the classic version - it'll probably last longer, too! I found you through WFMW, by the way.
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