Stress isn’t good for anyone at any age, especially not children. And playtime wasn’t always just fun and games…
We urge toy makers to think of the children, for god sake THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
From having a steady hand, to beating the clock, here are 11 childhood games that were much more pull-you-hair-out-stressful than fun…
1. Don’t Buzz the Wire
Just holding the stick sent you in to momentary meltdown.
2. Jenga
Sure this would leave even the coolest of customers hot under the collar…
3. Buck-a-roo
Steady there now horsey…
4. Bop it
Don’t even get us started on this one… As if it wasn’t bad enough, they brought out ‘Extreme 2’.
5. Snakes-and-ladders
We can’t help but remember playing this game and feeling a lot like Samuel L. Jackson in ‘Snakes on a Plane’.
I am sick and f*ckin’ tired of these mother f*ckin snakes on this mother f*ckin’… board game.
6. Rubix Cube
Why? Why would anyone buy this for a child… was it some sort of sick joke?
7. Operation
We admitted defeat and our aspirations of becoming a surgeon were short lived…
8. Mouse Trap
This one had us pulling out our hair for obvious reasons…
9. Tamagotchi
Sure for feck sake, we could hardly feed ourselves when the dinner was set out on front of us, never mind keep our Tamagotchi alive and clean up after it. (There was really no need for all that poop).
10. Snake
You use to play this one on the sneak underneath the school desk, but it was more stressful than a trigonometry sum.
11. Snap
Wait for it… wait for it… You were at your wits end trying to slyly place the card down so that you’d win the game. Just never worked out that way.
We’ll not lie, we still play a few of these classics from time-to-time (more often than we should) and we haven’t yet managed to just enjoy the game…
Competitive? Us? Never!
