Trivial Pursuit - Dvd Pop Culture 2Nd Edition 12 Years and up by Hasbro List Price: $39.99 $34.89 At Amazon on 12-7-2008.

Features 2 to 6 players. Ages: Adult. Editorial Reviews Folks who find the questions in the main edition of Trivial Pursuit to be out of their league may have better luck with this Pop Culture 2 edition. This edition follows the premise of the original game, where two to four players or teams roll the die and move around the board answering trivia questions to score "wedges" of a pie. The object is to score a wedge from each of the six category areas to complete the pie and win the game. However, the cards in this edition skip the dry historical, geographical, and scientific questions and instead focus on fun factoids in the following categories: TV, Music, Movies, Sports and Games, Fads, and Buzz. Another difference is that players must answer an interactive question from the included DVD when they land on a scoring space, an appropriate way to dispense questions for this subject matter. Players choose from four kitschy pop culture tokens to represent them on the board: a troll, a peace sign, a platform boot, and a record. The game includes over 2,400 questions, of which over 600 are featured on the accompanying DVD. The DVD features 16 pre-planned games, each with different questions, and has a checklist inside the case to keep track of which games have already been played. --Cristina Vaamonde Product Description Introducing the multi-media version of America's favorite trivia game! With 1,800 question cards and a DVD with 400 more questions, do you think you can handle this new trivia challenge' You'll encounter six categories including Television, Movies, Music, Sports/Games and Fads. For two to six players. Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism A group of friends go looking for a game to keep them occupied whilst hanging out in a garage overnight. Was Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture 2 up to the challenge? Absolutely not, and I can't reccomend this item to anyone at all because of the issues we encountered. The Good: You have to start out with what this game does right, which is almost nothing. -The marker pieces are cool, although you'll find it hard to justify them as being "pop". Old Pursuit markers were the "pie dish" circles. The pop ones are similar, but are topped by miniature sculptures. Try an old record and a lawn gnome for starters. How about a red boot? They didn't sound much like "pop" culture to me, but maybe my group was expecting pop to be more current... or more popular... -The DVD concept is similarly cool at first glance. Instead of just reading a question off a card, you get a multimedia experience. This is only done, however, when you're going for a scoring wedge or for the win. Normal questions are still on cards, and as said, sometimes the DVD just asks you to go to the cards. The Bad: Every single time you grab a question from the DVD, you have to set through the same intro video, and there's only one for each of the six topics. This grew quite old by the time we were seeing out fifth and sixth viewings of the same intro. The purple and blue colors used in the game are too similar, and this frequently caused wrong questions to be read. Worse yet, this sometimes resulted in people going for the wrong DVD question, in which case there was much fumbling to find the menu button during the into movie to the wrong color's question. The questions usually range from irate to mind-bogglingly niche. Several times, an overly vague reference to a "pop" item left the whole group guessing, even after the answer was read, and we wound up Googling the item to find out what it was about. The questions don't seem to be about "pop" culture at all- they're about tiny trivia from media sources, and unless you've been seriously overexposed to media in your life, you can expect to be left guessing with a lot of these questions. Who here was a fan of "Chess Boxing" when it was (apparently) a TV show? Me neither. The Ugly: -During a question about the TV show Frasier, we watched 2 minutes and 14 seconds of the show, which were completely unrelated to the question. Add the intro video, and this question took at least 2 minutes and 30 seconds longer than just reading a question off the card. This offense was repeated during several questions, and keep in mind, my group only played one game. -Halfway into a "Buzz" question, white text was popping onto a bright yellow background, making it virtually impossible to read. Add to this that one member of my group actually has an eye problem that makes reading text from a TV hard by itself, and you have a recipe for disaster. This issue was infrequent, but a game buster when it happened. Overall: If you're the kind of person who can recite the winners of the nobel prizes by year, and if you're the kind of person who can attribute a magazine quote by author and text alone, and if you consider these sorts of things to be "pop culture", this game is for you. For the rest of us though, this game is an exercise in frustration that will leave you wanting your regular Pursuit game, and especially for its much larger boxes of question cards if you plan on playing more than a few times. If you want pop culture, look into games like "Scene It" or "Cranium", which stay much more up-to-date with their pop knowledge. The new Trivial Pursuits seem out of touch. Trivial Pursuit - Dvd Pop Culture 2Nd Edition Available from Amazon Updated on 12-7-2008.

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