The Looney Bin:
Looney Bin: The North Wing:
The Looney Bin is a deduction game with fast action - reaction card play that depicts the uproarious occurrences of an insane asylum. The object is to be the first to heal all the patients in your ward by treatment with various therapies. Non phasing player action ability keeps everyone involved for very little down time. Contains 35 patients, 90 staff and action cards, 35 symptom tiles and plenty of therapy chits.
Looney Bin: The North Wing allows you to continue the insanity by expanding The Looney Bin game for further fun. Expansion set includes 27 new patient cards and 36 new staff and action cards. One more therapy, Rorschach Ink Blot, doubles the amount of possible cures with 70 new symptom tiles. Also included are more therapy tokens for up to 10 players.There have been other hospital-based games like Theme Hospital for the computer, and a similar version for Facebook, called Simply Hospital, or something like that, that have "funny" brain or "mental" illnesses; things like King Syndrome, where the person thinks and acts and looks like Elvis, etcetera, and has to get cured by the shrink.
Those two computer games, I've had much more experience with Theme Hospital than Simply Hospital, but I was starting to get bothered by some of the "mental" cases in the latter. In Theme Hospital there were so cartoonish as to be so far removed from real life, although I suppose there are mental patients who believe they are all kinds of famous people, I guess. At least I've seen illness portrayed that way in the movies; I don't know if it's really so.
This Looney Bin game, on the other hand, seems to be much more stigmatizing than the computer games. Then again, I've played an online game called The Asylum for Cuddly Toys; it's in my right-hand sidebar. You try to cure a soft toy of a mysterious mental illness using various therapies. You have to try and deduce things based on what behaviors the treatments cause. Is this game stigmatizing or fun or somewhere in between?
Looney Bin just seemed to set off something in me though. Let me know what you all think, about any of it!
Edited to add: I just found one called Tourettes, which I think is DEFINITELY stigmatizing, or at the very least EXTREMELY tacky.
Description:
Tourettes is a game of quick thinking and quicker blurting.
Players take turns flipping over the top card of the deck. The card will have a letter, number, prefix, or symbol, and everyone tries to shout out a word that starts with the same letter as whatever is on the card. The fastest person wins the card.
6 comments:
The Tourette's game sounds fun but is poorly named. They could have named it something like Blurt Out which would not have stigmatized people living with a difficult condition.
I saw your comment on Dr. Deb's blog. My brother also suffers with chronic pain in his right leg and foot following back surgery. He still works as a fire captain and SWAT team medic and I don't know how he does it. I have fibromyalgia which causes chronic widespread pain. In my case it's a low grade pain most of the time but I am never without it. And some days I feel like just curling up and sleeping all day.
Thanks for commenting; I don't know how your brother odes that either, wow. I'm sorry you have that. Some days I feel like curling up and sleeping too, I get so tired of it.
We like Snorta. Sounds a little like Tourette's, but with farm animals.
BTW: I got a bad copy of The Core from NetFlix, so didn't catalog it, but I don't think those were suicides. Fun movie, tho. Almost plausible. Thank you for recommending it.
Seems to me I looked at Snorta recent;y; I asked for money for games for my birthday, or gift certs to games stores, since I want games you can't find at regular stores. Anyway, that one looked interesting, I'll look at it again!
But did you find the fish? It may take some slow-mo to catch on to it. Once you know when/where it is, if you have a keen eye you can see it without slow mo if you watch for it, but first or second time you'd have to probably slow-mo to find it. Maybe.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, if you suspend your disbelief, it's an enjoyable almost plausible in an alternate universe kind of way, movie! I mean you've got a space shuttle landing, lightning storms, microwaves, boiling oceans, exploding Collusseum, nuclear bombs, magma, a giant geode, going deep into the earth for goodness' sake, giant black diamonds, blue and killer whales . . . lots of interesting stuff!
Oh No Sarebear! I completely forgot to look for the fish! It was a fun film, but would have been better if I could have seen the whole thing. Maybe the fish was in a part that was unwatchable anyway. Maybe I'll try to watch another copy someday.
OMG I did not know about those games!
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