The Jumanji board game is clearly flawed and has quite a few issues, but it deserves some credit for being before its time in some interesting ways. For this and the fact that it was a movie tie-in board game I can’t say that I had high expectations for the Jumanji board game. As the movie is based off of a mystical board game that brings the jungle to your living room it was obvious that some liberties were going to have to been made with the source material when the real board game was made. With the entire movie being made about a board game it was not surprising at all that a board game was made to coincide with the movie. Well it turns out that it was actually a movie based on a book that featured a made up board game.

As a kid I always thought the movie was based on a board game because who would make a movie about a fictional board game.

When I was a kid I remember seeing the ads for the original movie and thinking it sounded pretty interesting even though I ended up not seeing it until many years later. What people might be less familiar with is that Jumanji originally started as a book back in 1981. When most people think of Jumanji they probably think of either the 1995 Robin Williams film or the more recent 20 films starring Dwayne Johnson.