Solarquest The Space-Age Real Estate Game

Super fun, educational game. Anytime I have a crossword puzzle asking about some moon I refer to my childhood and remember most of them. As a kid playing this, I knew the solar system better than most of the Earth's countries. Fast forward to my adulthood... went looking for this at my parents house only to discover my mom had sold it at a garage sale years earlier. So I bought it again after telling my friends' kids all about it. A couple thoughts after playing it with them the first time (ages 7 & 11). 1) First comment out of one their mouths..."Pluto isn't a planet!" lol So, yes, it's a slightly "dated" form of our solar system now. 2) Second comment from one of their mouths (11 years old) after reading all the rules ..."this sounds really complicated." I have no recollection of it being tiresome keeping track of fuel requirements and such...so I must not have used the fuel when I was kid. We played the first time trying to do it by using following the fuel rules and one of us got weeded out before we even made it around the board. We started over without caring about the fuel aspect and it was great! I found the fuel deal cumbersome even as an adult so I think if you play disregarding fuel completely it'll be more fun for youngsters. Otherwise they loved the game and want to play it with me everytime they visit.

Take monopoly, add a spaceship, fuel and a lot more properties to buy and you have solar quest. If you want to make the game more of a challenge, add the laser guns.Great game for those who have the time to play Monopoly, and have the patients to run multiple aspects of a board game at once.

Solarquest is basically Monopoly, but all properties work like the Railroads, where rent goes up with each of the local properties you buy, rather than having to secure a "Monopoly" to do it. Replacing Houses and Hotels are Fuel Stations, which you also don't need a monopoly to purchase, in fact, you HAVE to in order to secure your properties.To make a long story short, it's far more balanced with A LOT more options, and well worth playing.

Best game ever. I think my brother and I dug it out of our basement when we were little after it had been down there who knows how long. We had the one game no one else did. No one else had heard of for that mater, and it was an AWESOME game. You lose fuel as you move around the solar system, buying property, like monopoly. To escape a planets orbit, you have to roll high enough to reach escape velocity... Lots of little pieces to lose, cards, rocket ships, fuel units... but mostly all able to be recreated with sculpy or cardboard. Between Risk and this game we learned all the planets, moons, and earths countries.

I live this game and all the pieces are all still with it

Purchased this game originally decades ago. Many fun times playing it with my son (he's now 33). Thrilled to find a replacement for ours lost in a house fire, carry on the fun & tradition with future family. Vendor provided game in excellent condition, great price, prompt service.

This was such an amazing surprise for my boyfriend. He grew up playing this and his face lit up when he opened it!

A blast from the past! My old board fell apart. This new one is perfect and complete, lots of fun.