Spotted Online – Unpublished Six Million Dollar Man Boardgame
Back in the 1975 Parker Brothers published two different Six Million Dollar Man boardgames. The Six Million Dollar Man boardgame was a standard “roll and move” game, using a spinner in place of a die as race around the board drawing and playing cards. Nothing too exciting or unusual about this game.
The other Six Million Dollar Man game from Parker Brothers in 1975, Bionic Crisis, had players rebuilding cyborgs through a sequence of playing cards and guessing numbers. According to this review at BGG it sounds like there’s a decent core there for a deduction game. Hmmmm. Maybe I can find a copy of the game really cheap . . .
Surprisingly, though, there’s a third Six Million Dollar Man game from that era out in someone’s collection. Identified only as a Six Million Dollar Man game, the game listed at BGG is a 1970s prototype that was never published. The BGG description states:
“The game shows some similarities to Parker Brothers’ Six Million Dollar Man game and may be a very early version of the game. The mechanics are more complex than the average children’s roll-and-move game.”
Awesome! I know this is just a random oddity of a game, but owning an unusual prototype has got to be a real treat and I’m quite thankful that the owner though to share images of the prototype components. The crude artwork and handwritten (partial) rules are great and I hope that all of this is framed and displayed somewhere. Cool stuff!
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I had one of the Six Million Dollar Man games…I think there was an operating room in the center of the board? I remember that and the figure super-fondly, yet have absolutely no recollection of any episodes of it!