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OPERATION

s the author of a column called “This Old Game,” I often face the sobering reality that some of these old games were produced during my childhood. I recently found an updated version of Operation—a game that I played for hours on end when I was a young kid—at a thrift store. Initially, I was tempted to say “This game can’t be old”—until a bit of research showed that Operation dates back to 1965,

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