Mouse Trap - Ideal Toys - 1963
We next have the original Mouse Trap game by Ideal. This was first introduced by Ideal in 1963. The original set was about one and a half time larger that the game is today.
This was a hybrid game, a combination board game and construction game. The board game part, essentially was to build the trap contraption. The mice token then circled around the trap area until someone would roll dice which would allow them to initiate the capture process. Last mouse not captured wins.
The mouse trap mechanism itself it like Rube Goldberg perpetual motion machine.
Turn a lever, which caused a boot to tip over a bucket and send a metal ball down wobbly stair and into a chute. This hits a pole causing it to raise up, releasing a bowling ball into a bath tub with a hole it it. The bowling ball then lands on a plank which causes a man to be launched into the air landing in a laundry tub. This then causes the cage balance at the top of a pole be release and capture a mouse. Whew !
Here is an original commercial advertising both Mouse Trap, and it's cousin game Crazy Clock.
Mouse Trap was so popular that Ideal tried to recreate it in the game "Crazy Clock". However this game was not as popular. Mouse Trap survived and is still being produced today by Milton Bradley. Crazy Clock was not as lucky, and disappeared from the toy landscape by 1970.
If you ever played Mouse Trap you have to admit, that all you really wanted to do was build the contraption and not play the game. The trap itself was fun to do, the game was rather dull. IMHO
If you ever played Mouse Trap you have to admit, that all you really wanted to do was build the contraption and not play the game. The trap itself was fun to do, the game was rather dull. IMHO
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