Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive!

 Now that I have the Bee Gees stuck in your head, let me introduce our item for today! From 1978, I have Milton Bradley's "Stay Alive" game! I picked this one up at a thrift store that loved to use those horrible grease pencils to mark their prices. Still, it's not a bad example. Here you go...

Apparently I spent 1.91 on this gem. Kind of an odd number, but it probably made some sort of sense to the store. I see by the copy that this is the "Ultimate Survival Game" which means those guys on that TV show are a bunch of dummies. Why eat bugs when you can just play this? Suckers!

And opening it up, we see the board. This game could be played without taking it out of the box, if you wished, but that's not as fun in my opinion. Anyway, that's a lot of plastic! 

Here are the instructions. The game is very simple. You just place your marbles on the board and then take turns moving the slides until only one marbe remains. There is a little thought that can go into it, since you can easily figure out where the holes are on the slides, but since you're taking turns it's hard to set yourself up. 

Here is the board, freed of the box. It just looks better that way, I think 

This is a game that I never had as a kid, but was fairly popular. It's fun, but it's not my favorite. I guess never having played it as a kid, I don't have that nostalgic factor. 

Interestingly enough, I remember the commercial far better than the game. In fact, I quoted the last kid's line before he said it when I was watching it on You Tube, which is a little scary.

You wanna see the commercial? Here you go!

Commercial!

So there you have it! Have a great week and try to Stay Alive!

Until next time, keep searching for treasure!