Hasbro Looping Louie Elefun and Friends Hungry Hungry Hippos Game

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Loopin’ Louie revolves around a reckless pilot flying around in a circle past the same farms over and over.

Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games! Some people might also not be aware (I wasn’t until I checked out the rules again) that Loopin’ Louie actually has an advanced mode. While I haven’t had a lot of luck revisiting games from my childhood, I think Loopin’ Louie is the first game that actually held up pretty well over the years. In Loopin' Louie, a battery-powered motor placed in the center of the table rotates a boom with a little plastic plane. The Wall Street Journal describes it as one of Germany´s most popular drinking games and mentioned in 2014: "In Germany, a country with 81 million people, Looping Louie has sold more than 1.

Players choose whether they want to place the flipper in the normal (wider side of flipper out) or the advanced position (narrower side of flipper out). The game works really well as a filler game that you play for fifteen minutes or so and then bring out another day. The other problem is the fact that good luck finding a copy that still has all of the original chicken tokens. If you hold down the flipper with your other hand it helps but there are still times when you will accidentally knock down your own chickens.

The object of the game is for players to press their respective levers to keep Louie in the air to stop him from knocking the chicken tokens into the canals. The game requires a screwdriver to assemble a central crane tower with a figure of the titular Louie in a biplane attached to the end of the crane. Although the game is designed for a maximum of 4 players, unofficial modifications were made by modders to increase the maximum number of players to eight. I have to say that when I got my original copy of Loopin’ Louie out of storage, I didn’t expect the game to still work.

Loopin' Louie, is an interactive electronic board game designed by Carol Wiseley and published by Milton Bradley in 1992.

The game is not quite as good as I remember but it is more enjoyable than you would expect from a children’s game from the 1990s. Crazy crash pilot Louie has lost control of his plane and is about to crash right over your chicken coop! The problem is that my experience with some of the newer versions is that none of them compare in quality to the original game.

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