It's been a long time since I've played this game, but I have fond
memories of my cousins and I huddling around that poor plastic man,
tweezers in hand. The concentration was so intense, you could hear a pin
drop -- and if any of us did, we jumped halfway to the ceiling in
fright, dropping whatever body part we had so carefully been trying to
remove.
And then it came...the dreaded BUZZ! Accompanied, of
course, by the flashing red nose. Is this guy the human version of
Rudolph, or what? The ideal, of course, was to avoid that noise at all
costs. Not only would it mean I had lost, but no one else wanted me to
drop my piece because the nose alarm was so grating on the ears! Even
still, I got the BUZZ often enough to tell me that I was perhaps not the
ideal candidate to consider a career as a surgeon.
This game
is a lot of fun for young children to play. It teaches them their body
parts, and they will be so intent on doing the operation correctly that
it will keep them quiet for quite a while. Except, of course, when that
infernal buzzer goes off! So, for your sake, I would suggest you wait
until your children are old enough to have a pretty steady hand before
buying this game for them. The pieces are also quite tiny, and the last
thing you need is your two-year-old swallowing another kidney!
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