Follow TV Tropes

Following

History TabletopGame / TheGrapeEscape1992

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


[[caption-width-right:251:''[[SpaghettiAndGondolas Make them! Take them! To the factory! Mash them! MASH THEM! Now they're history!]]'']]

to:

[[caption-width-right:251:''[[SpaghettiAndGondolas Make [[caption-width-right:251:''Make them! Take them! To the factory! Mash them! MASH THEM! Now they're history!]]'']]
history!]]''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Per TRS, Toy Commercial is being cut


* ToyCommercial: Parker Brothers advertised the game primarily through television commercials. They consisted of animated claymation figures being crushed or sliced while children played the game. The theme song was set to the tune of the Italian song "[[SpaghettiAndGondolas Funiculì, Funiculà]]".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* GiantFootOfStomping: One of the hazards on the board you are required to avoid, or get flattened trying.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* InASingleBound: The Grape Leap roll allows the player to jump ahead one space of the "grape" in the lead.


Added DiffLines:

* PunBasedTitle: Of ''Film/TheGreatEscape''.

Added: 285

Changed: 236

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* TheManyDeathsOfYou: The hazards include a large scissors, a steam roller, a large saw blade, and a grape stomping boot all activated by lever and rubber band. (In Smashed Potatoes, the grape stomping boot was replaced with a french fryer.) All of which will horribly maim and mangle your grape if anyone rolls a Turn Crank from the die while it occupies these stations.

to:

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: The All the hazards can horribly maim and mangle your "grape" piece if anyone rolls a Turn Crank from the die while it occupies these stations.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: The conveyor belt style board obstacles for the players
include a large scissors, a steam roller, a large saw blade, and a grape stomping boot all activated by lever and rubber band. (In Smashed Potatoes, the grape stomping boot was replaced with a french fryer.) All of which will horribly maim and mangle your grape if anyone rolls a Turn Crank from the die while it occupies these stations.)
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* LuckBasedMission: Whether your "grape" survives, or gets mashed in the factory, is all down to the roll of the dice.

to:

* LuckBasedMission: Whether your "grape" survives, or gets mashed annihilated in the factory, is all down to the roll of the dice.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* LuckBasedMission: Whether your "grape" survives, or gets mashed in the factory, is all down to the roll of the dice.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* MadeOfPlasticine: Your playing piece is "grape" made from Play-Doh and will get brutally mashed up in the factory if you're not lucky.

to:

* MadeOfPlasticine: Your playing piece is a "grape" (not too dissimilar from the ''[[PopCultureIsolation/FoodAndDrink Ribena]]'' grape characters) made from Play-Doh and will get brutally mashed up in the factory if you're not lucky.

Added: 434

Changed: 147

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''The Grape Escape'' is a 3D board game for two to four players. Each player is a "grape" that must escape the juice factory. They form clay grapes from Play-Doh with an included mold, to use as their playing pieces. They then travel around the conveyor belt style board covered by a RubeGoldbergDevice. Taking turns to follow the set path through the machine advancing to the roll of the die. One face of die forces that player not to move, but to operate the hand cranked mechanism, which stomps, rolls and cuts away. Any player piece that occupies these hazard spaces when its in motion, will be physically disfigured or decapitated. If you get squished, you have to remold your grape and start over.

to:

''The Grape Escape'' is a 3D board game for two to four players. Each player is a "grape" that must escape the juice factory. They form clay grapes from Play-Doh [[MadeOfPlasticine Play-Doh]] with an included mold, to use as their playing pieces. They then travel around the conveyor belt style board covered by a RubeGoldbergDevice. Taking turns to follow the set path through the machine advancing to the roll of the die. One face of die forces that player not to move, but to operate the hand cranked mechanism, which stomps, rolls and cuts away. Any player piece that occupies these hazard spaces when its in motion, will be physically disfigured or decapitated. If you get squished, you have to remold your grape and start over.



* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The four molded player pieces from
* ContinuingIsPainful: If your grape figure gets destroyed, you're not eliminated but you have to re-mold your player piece, and go back to the start space. If this happens too often it can result in you losing the game.

to:

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The four molded player pieces from
piece "grapes" made from Play-Doh can be any color you choose (providing you have the modelling tub you want as they're sold separately).
* ContinuingIsPainful: If your grape figure gets destroyed, you're not eliminated but you have to re-mold your player piece, and go back to the start space. If this happens too often it can result in you losing the game.game.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Your playing piece is "grape" made from Play-Doh and will get brutally mashed up in the factory if you're not lucky.


Added DiffLines:

* ToyCommercial: Parker Brothers advertised the game primarily through television commercials. They consisted of animated claymation figures being crushed or sliced while children played the game. The theme song was set to the tune of the Italian song "[[SpaghettiAndGondolas Funiculì, Funiculà]]".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Not to be confused with ''https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheCaliforniaRaisinsTheGrapeEscape''.

to:

Not to be confused with ''https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheCaliforniaRaisinsTheGrapeEscape''.''VideoGame/TheCaliforniaRaisinsTheGrapeEscape''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:251:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_grape_escape.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:251:''[[SpaghettiAndGondolas Make them! Take them! To the factory! Mash them! MASH THEM! Now they're history!]]'']]

''The Grape Escape'' is a 3D board game for two to four players. Each player is a "grape" that must escape the juice factory. They form clay grapes from Play-Doh with an included mold, to use as their playing pieces. They then travel around the conveyor belt style board covered by a RubeGoldbergDevice. Taking turns to follow the set path through the machine advancing to the roll of the die. One face of die forces that player not to move, but to operate the hand cranked mechanism, which stomps, rolls and cuts away. Any player piece that occupies these hazard spaces when its in motion, will be physically disfigured or decapitated. If you get squished, you have to remold your grape and start over.

The game was released in by Parker Brothers in 1992. Now absorbed into {{Creator/Hasbro}} (and licensed by Rehtmeyer Inc.), the game was remade in 2010 as "Smashed Potatoes" with the same game play, but with potatoes instead of grapes, and the die was replaced with a spinner. It has since been discontinued.

Not to be confused with ''https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheCaliforniaRaisinsTheGrapeEscape''.
----
!!''The Grape Escape'' includes these tropes:

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The four molded player pieces from
* ContinuingIsPainful: If your grape figure gets destroyed, you're not eliminated but you have to re-mold your player piece, and go back to the start space. If this happens too often it can result in you losing the game.
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: The hazards include a large scissors, a steam roller, a large saw blade, and a grape stomping boot all activated by lever and rubber band. (In Smashed Potatoes, the grape stomping boot was replaced with a french fryer.) All of which will horribly maim and mangle your grape if anyone rolls a Turn Crank from the die while it occupies these stations.
----

Top