Buy Cheerios for $1.98 and get a free cd of Monopoly, Scrabble etc...

[gypsyman]

Just bought a 15 oz. box of Cheerios at Winco, here in northern California. Each box has a cd that contains one of the following games.
Monopoly
Scrabble
Candyland
Operation
Backyard Baseball.

The cd is clearly visible on the front of the box so you can see what game you are getting.

 

[Ionizer86]

Hehe, I've gotten two Golden Grahams and two Cinnamon Toast Crunches thus far. Only missing Backyard Baseball now

So yea, basically you can get the game on other General Mills cereals too

 

[SafetyDance]

I found that these games are hardly compatible with any new operating system. The dates on my CDs were 1997, yes 1997 - 6 years ago! My daughter was devastated that Candy Land didn't work.

Mike

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: SafetyDance
I found that these games are hardly compatible with any new operating system. The dates on my CDs were 1997, yes 1997 - 6 years ago! My daughter was devastated that Candy Land didn't work.

Mike

Did you try running them in compatability mode? If not, that might help/

 

[ReiAyanami]

too bad playsite dropped monopoly after the change of ownership

 

[SynthesisI]

Originally posted by: SafetyDance
I found that these games are hardly compatible with any new operating system. The dates on my CDs were 1997, yes 1997 - 6 years ago! My daughter was devastated that Candy Land didn't work.

Mike

That's just pathetic on GM's part- you should write a letter of complaint! I was all happy and hungry for a bowl of Os and a little electronic Park Place action until I read your post. Well, maybe someone here will have better luck. Bump!

 

[phpguru]

Don't know about candyland but Monopoly worked with Windows XP fine.

phpguru

 

[StormSide]

I second that Monopoly works fine on XP!

 

[aimam]

candyland worked on our xp system quite well...

 

[bradolson]

Scrabble works on my XP system.

Brad

 

[HardAngel]

Huh! This ver of scrabble r*o*c*k*s. and the AI players are tough

Heh, heh, you could always buy all five games, save em sealed up and auction them off in 10 years as "rare set of 5 AOL GM game CDs" - they are pushing AOL after all

-Angel

 

[jeffspam]

Yeah, Scrabble works on XP here too. Though it's an older game (mabye three or four years old?), it's perfectly playable. Just wish it didn't require that you stick the CD in the drive each time you want to play (thus giving it another chance to shove AOL in your face) (yeah, I know... autoplay... but my father-in-law doesn't really want to worry about that)

 

[pprior]

Candyland works on XP, can't remembe whether I used compatibility mode or not, but I've ripped it to a virtual CD (like I do all my CDs for kids) and kids play it all the time.

Guess I should pick up the others - thanks for the reminder. Definitely a hot deal.

 

[fargus]

Had that promo on the east coast over a year ago. How old is that cereal?

 

[Foghorn]

Originally posted by: SafetyDance
I found that these games are hardly compatible with any new operating system. The dates on my CDs were 1997, yes 1997 - 6 years ago! My daughter was devastated that Candy Land didn't work.

Mike

Works on my xp system, my kids love it!

 

[XiZiT]

Can you play the monopoly ip2ip / multiplayer?

 

[Ionizer86]

I got Operation 1st (the Golden Grahams at my local Publix had nothing else), and it works on XP too. Good thing that my other 3 CD's will work too: Candy Land, Monopoly, and Scrabble. No need to apply compatibility mode thus far.

SafetyDance, which modern OS are you running on? Win Server 2k3? A Linux variant? OSX?

 

[SafetyDance]

Glad some others actually got Candy Land to work on XP. I tried compatibility mode, as well as a couple other things that their webiste suggested, including turning down the display hardware acceleration. Nothing worked, it just blue screens then locks up.

pprior - could you give me more information about using the virtual CD? Is that a part of XP, or do you need a package?

Mike

 

[SafetyDance]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
I got Operation 1st (the Golden Grahams at my local Publix had nothing else), and it works on XP too. Good thing that my other 3 CD's will work too: Candy Land, Monopoly, and Scrabble. No need to apply compatibility mode thus far.

SafetyDance, which modern OS are you running on? Win Server 2k3? A Linux variant? OSX?

By modern, I mean that since the CD is dated 1997, that is still the windows 95 era (and probably beginnings of 98), that XP is more modern. Some people will undoubtedly disagree with that, but that's the Microsoft bashers for you.

Mike

 

[FreakyGuy]

I can't get scrabble to work on XP, tried compatability mode thingy but it still crashes. I have XP Pro with all the updates including DX9.

 

[narducci]

is this only good in california? anyone see these on the east coast recently?

 

[Ezrem]

I can't find any in the midwest (MN) either.

Any chance some generous person could buy me a box with scrabble and mail the CD to me? I would be happy to paypal a few bucks.

 

[tdgx]

They're here, or at least were here in the midwest (Kansas). I got Monopoly, Scrabble, and Backyard Baseball about 2 or 3 months ago from the cereal boxes. Also I've had no problems getting any of the games to work in 2K or XP.

 

[mikeford]

These old games get the rights bought and sold all the time, and the problem is even the most basic support is VERY short lived. Main question I have is the compatibility with current internet multiplayer releases.

 

[cogan]

I've run Candyland and Operation on Windows XP--XP Home--but given what people have said above, perhaps there's a difference between XP Home and XP Pro? SafetyDance--which version of XP are you running?