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Media Watch: Take a Chance? She’s Game
LA Times
“As someone who spent many a boyhood hour rolling the dice or spinning the dial, I’m glad people like Cheri Norgaard still are around.
In all honesty, I didn’t know there were.
But apparently infused with some of the same DNA that found its way into Milton Bradley and the Parker Brothers of yesteryear, Norgaard thought it would be a hoot to invent a board game. That is not an occupation you will find at many “Career Days” at your neighborhood middle school.
But here she is, 45 years old and a wife and mother of two teenagers in Laguna Hills, and hoping that “Up the … Corporation” can become the next Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit.”
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© 2006 Ward Batty
Posted by Ward Batty on Jan 11, 2006 at 04:10 PM in Game News, Media Watch / 1013
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$150,000 invested so far? Yikes! Hope this doesn’t turn out to be a kamikaze effort! Posted by Larry Levy on Jan 11, 2006 at 07:45 PM | #
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Larry - I thought exactly the same thing! - Rick Posted by Rick Thornquist on Jan 12, 2006 at 09:13 AM | #
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Larry, Rick: The sum total of the game (at least what is accessible on their website) is to draw a card and move your piece the way it tells you to. Then again, LCR is wildly successful, so maybe a 48 dollar game with a similar level of required cranial input will also do well… :) pk Posted by Patrick Korner on Jan 12, 2006 at 11:58 AM | #
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