Game review 35: Game of Life

So we beat on, green plastic car against the board, borne back ceaselessly on to the toll bridge.

Get a car, become the boss, acquire a race horse and speed boat, and then retire to a villa in the sun.

Game of Life, that training ground of wealth accrual and aspiration, feels a little anachronistic in the age of austerity. Forget yachts, nowadays in the post-Covid-19, cost of-living crisis world, astonish-your-chums status symbols might include a £10…