March 15, 2004

By: Nick Steinbach
Website: http://www.1st-in-games.com

TRIVIAL PURSUIT: New 20th Anniversary Edition - A Celebration of All Things Trivial

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the game that started the adult game revolution, Hasbro, Inc. is launching the TRIVIAL PURSUIT 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION game. From the Berlin Wall to Silicon Valley, the new edition features questions that recount some of the momentous events and people of the past 20 years in six new categories.

Twenty years ago, the TRIVIAL PURSUIT game became an instant classic, proving to everyone that board games are not just for kids, said John Chandler, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Hasbro Games. Now, with even more adults playing games socially, we expect the 20th anniversary edition to provide hours of fun, especially to those familiar with Reaganomics, Grunge Rock and Y2K.

The game features nearly 4,000 new questions divided in to the following six new categories:

* Global View - Subjects include: geography, ecology, space, global cultures, our small planet and biological issues.

* Sound & Screen - Subjects include: television and movies, quotes, plot summaries of TV shows, the music industry, song lyrics, band names.

* News - Subjects include: headlines from the past 20 years, quirky news items, history.

* The Written Word - Subjects include: books, magazines, Web sites, the written word and its influence, comic books, comic strips.

* Innovations - Subjects include: inventions, science, the Internet, home electronics, PDAs, computers, DVDs, cloning science fiction, the future.

* Game Time - Subjects include: sports and games, active entertainment, professional sports, sports rules, golf, darts, computer games, cards, board games.

The game play of the new edition remains the same as the traditional version with two to six players vying to collect all six scoring wedges and answer the final question first. In celebration of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT game's 20th anniversary, the game comes with a deluxe card dispenser available exclusively with this limited edition.

The development of the game dates to 1979, when two friends, Scott Abbott, a sports editor with The Canadian Press, and Chris Haney, photo editor for the Montreal Gazette, engaged in a friendly argument over who was the better game player. This led to the friends creating a game of their own, TRIVIAL PURSUIT, the game that twenty years later millions of adults continue to enjoy.

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