HereвЂ™s a video, um, trailer? for the new version of Operation:Д¬avity SamвЂ™s new look is actually a third step in an evolution that first saw him donning a pair of shorts in a version of the Operation game in 2008 (below) that featured silly sounds to correspond with each ailment.

Gone are AdamвЂ™s apple, butterflies in stomach, funny bone, wish bone, and bread basket - in their place are slightly modernized (for the most part) ailments such as headphone headache, gamerвЂ™s thumb, cranky knee, frostbite, heartburn, hangnail, ringing in his ear and rumbling tummy. In addition to the change in appearance, Cavity SamвЂ™s operatable maladies have also changed with the times. But, after researching a post on Here Comes Honey Boo BooвЂs Mama June Shannon (click the link and youвЂ™ll see why), I ran across a recent photo of the board game that reveals Hasbro has given Cavity Sam a MAJOR makeover!ДЄlthough ol Sam has retained his signature hairdo (in essence), he has since lost a lot of weight, put on a pair of polka dot shorts, gotten a few tattoos, and apparently likes to hang out in the sunshine wearing a wife beater tank top: The illustration, combined with the yellow background, red frame, and red light bulb nose, became one of the most iconic images in the history of the gaming industry, and remained relatively unchanged for more than forty years. The game featured an illustration of Cavity Sam (above), a rather heavy-set naked man laying on an operating table.

вЂњCome mothers and fathers throughout the land, and donвЂ™t criticize what you canвЂ™t understandвЂ¦вЂќ So sang Bob Dylan on 1964 hit вЂњThe Times They Are a-ChanginвЂ™.вЂќ That very same year a University of Illinois industrial design student named John Spinello designed the prototype for HasbroвЂ™s вЂњOperation,вЂќ the now-classic kidsвЂ™ electronic surgery game.

Images of operation game