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The Ever-Popular “Man Don’t Get Mad About It” Game

07 Oct

Posted by Yehuda as Classic Board Games, Electronic Games

Game Zone posted an article about a new game for mobile phones called Man Don’t Get Mad About It. They said it was based on a “well known and popular classic board game”. And that was it.

I wracked my brains trying to figure out what game this could be. Couldn’t guess. Finally I went to the publisher’s web site, only to find that they used the same words: “based on a popular board game”. I finally figured out which board game from the screenshot:

Of course: “Sorry!” Get it?

I’m wondering if the Scrabulous fiasco made them skittish about naming their game inspiration. If so, why couldn’t they just say “Pachisi”, which is hundreds of years old and not copyrighted?

5 Responses

msaari

October 8th, 2008 at 7:58 am
1

The title is a direct translation of the German name of the game, Mens Argere Dich Nicht. I wonder if the publisher’s German?
James

October 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
2

And it looks a lot like Aggravation, the classic version of which can be seen here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/86308.

But of course they all go back to pachisi.
msaari

October 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
3

And the Finnish version is called Kimble, after Richard Kimble from The Fugitive (because the pieces are running away from each other, obviously!).
maryann

November 27th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
4

Actually, there was a game called “Don’t Get Mad” . I’m sure Aggravation and Sorry were copied from it. My family has been playing it for years, before those two games came out. The game designer more than likely failed to get a copyright.
Inge

November 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
5

I am looking for a larger Mensch Argere Dich Nicht, for an elderely person, and has poo eyesight. What is the size of you game you show on this side?
Thank you