However, Alex became McDonough and became trapped within 'JUMANJI' and suffered the same fate as Alan Parrish the boy who disappeared from Brantford. Alex then took immediate interest and started to play the game, playing as Jefferson 'Seaplane' McDonough.
'JUMANJI', seeing that Alex was more interested in video games, knew it had to adapt to modern times and tastes in order to attract interest and in the middle of the night, changed its game board into a video game cartridge, leaving the empty box behind. However, Alex did not like the board game, as he said 'Who plays board games anymore?'. Vreeke, who then took it home to the Vreeke House, thinking his son Alex Vreeke would like it. The board game (somehow) made it's way back to Brantford, New Hampshire in 1996 where it was found on a beach again, this time by Mr. After Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle set the 'JUMANJI' board game adrift in a river, it was then found by a pair of French girls.