 There's this other collectible marbles game... it's called marbles
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June 22, 2004
There's this other collectible marbles game... it's called marbles Normally we like to wait until we get the full press release in email, but this is too funny not to post.
June 23, 2004 07:04 AM: Jeff says... Apparently there is a liberal drug use at work policy at WOTC development.......
June 23, 2004 08:41 AM: Dave Nadig says... Is this actually for real? I couldn't find it at WOTC.... It's a joke right?
June 23, 2004 12:23 PM: Home Wrekka says... It's no joke... and rampant drug use at WotC?... Well, I've heard things before the buyout (and we all know that buyouts never erase vestiges of the old guard) :)
June 23, 2004 12:35 PM: tldenmark says... I don't see this as stupid or crazy. I think it is quite smart. Doesn't every kid in elementary school play marbles? I remember how fascinated we were when a kid brought a new kind of marble to school that none of us had seen before. I sucked at marbles, but still had fun. WotC may have a winner if this is done right. I only wish I'd thought of it. td
June 23, 2004 01:13 PM: Ken Newquist says... Played marbles? No, never played marbles. Gotten into huge marble wars with friends, in which large numbers of small glass globes where hurled at one another across the living room? Yep, done that. Of course, the chances that we'd actually have *played* marbles would have increased if anyone had told us what the rules were...
June 23, 2004 01:57 PM: Pancake_Bunny says... Nope. Sorry. No marbles. I think that was several generation gaps back. Why would you want to play with little glass balls (other than to throw them at your friends and enemies) when you've got a videogame console and cable TV?
June 23, 2004 02:00 PM: Penn42 says... Having an 11 year old in school, I can tell you that in our particular geographic area, Marbles are not played in his school. He has some marbles I got for him a few years back, and he was interested in them in that "these are kinda cool" way...but never interested enough to do anything with them. Kids in his school discuss playstation/xbox strageies by the hour, or engage in sports activities. In some ways, I do see this as being cleaver on Wotc's part. It's really just taking an old game, and putting a new wrapper around it. In truth, if they can get kids interested in an old tradional game like Marbles, by making it hip and collectable, fine by me. My store will certainly be ordering some...
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