Comments on: The Search For Annette’s Secret Passage ?p=180 Popular Culture, Unpopular Culture, and Tom Snyder Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous ?p=180&cpage=1#comment-37 Anonymous Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:05:35 +0000 ?p=180#comment-37 What you didn’t know is that the game designers in Milton Bradley’s R&D department were so jealous of Parker Brothers’ success with this game, that they developed several of their own Annette games.<br /> <br />R&D held a naming session and a young copywriter named Gary offered several enticing titles: <br /> <br />- Annette’s Hole-in-One Golf Game <br />- Annette’s Scratch and Sniff Game<br />- Annette’s Secret Chest Game<br /> <br />But, as usual, the Marketing Department interfered, and the game was ultimately billed as…<br /> <br />“Return to Annette’s Secret Passage” <br /> <br />In the new version, Tim Considine, Tommy Kirk, and Darlene Gillespie try to help Annette find her secret passage. They have several adventures along a winding game path deep within the Australian Outback. There are perils around every bend. You could get lost in the bush or fall into an abandoned mine shaft. Of course, drawing the scratch and sniff card allows you to take a short cut, morph into Frankie Avalon and win the game! What you didn’t know is that the game designers in Milton Bradley’s R&D department were so jealous of Parker Brothers’ success with this game, that they developed several of their own Annette games.

R&D held a naming session and a young copywriter named Gary offered several enticing titles:

- Annette’s Hole-in-One Golf Game
- Annette’s Scratch and Sniff Game
- Annette’s Secret Chest Game

But, as usual, the Marketing Department interfered, and the game was ultimately billed as…

“Return to Annette’s Secret Passage”

In the new version, Tim Considine, Tommy Kirk, and Darlene Gillespie try to help Annette find her secret passage. They have several adventures along a winding game path deep within the Australian Outback. There are perils around every bend. You could get lost in the bush or fall into an abandoned mine shaft. Of course, drawing the scratch and sniff card allows you to take a short cut, morph into Frankie Avalon and win the game!

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