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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2022 16:53:37 GMT
So I went to the tip shop earlier to have a rummage and for a couple of quid bought a indoor flat green bowling game from 1986! Complete with fake grass, It’s that’s sic it’s absolute filth lol!! and these days for most people can simply not compete against the virtual bowling game I’ve been playing on my iphone for the past 5 years! It got me thinking about all the MB games I used to own and play in the 70s! Which were so exciting back then, and at a time when I feel games were much more appreciated because they came at a price, hung around in the cupboard for longer and were simply played more. These days it’s a quick download, if it’s crap then, it’s delete and then on to summit else. It also got me thinking about at primary school where on the last day of term we were all aloud to bring our favourite games in for that day only! mine was Hangman! So what was yours ??? And of course there’s the school yard where it was always marbles against the wall! A marble was clear glass with like a little piece of plastic in the centre usually either orange or yellow, and then there were Gobby’s which were like marbles but just bigger. But then they were these other things like coloured ones which were usually painted all white (not clear glass) and had coloured swirls painted on them, but I simply can’t remember what these were called lol! ?? Think my favourite ones were always steely’s which were simply just a marble size ball bearing. I always remember a kid at school had a massive one probably about at least 3 inches in diameter, to the envy of everybody else, who wanted it, which in 2022, simply for health and safety reasons would not be allowed to be brought into school!!! Bar humbug!!! So what was your favourite game in the 70s at home or favourite one in the school yard!
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Post by Sparky on Feb 23, 2022 17:24:02 GMT
On Games day at school, you always took in what you thought was a world beater - and someone else always trumped it. "Ker Plunk" and "Frustration" (with the popper dome thing in the middle that had the dice inside) were the ones brought in by more than one person.
I remember someone bringing "Mousetrap" in - and ti was a ball ache to set up.
Someone brought in "Perfection" - with the clicky timer, where you had to fit the small shapes into the board in a given time. I can't seem to find the game these days.
One of my favourites was "Space Attack"; it was kind of like those Air Hocky tables. You had a metal spinner that you wound up, released and could deflect the spinner to try and score.
Here an Ad:
Perfection
But of all of them - someone brought in Crossfire....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2022 20:08:14 GMT
Argh mouse trap I loved that one, ya right Sparky it always took hours to build it and then it never worked right, ya never caught the bloody mouse
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Post by Nightfly on Feb 23, 2022 20:20:22 GMT
It got me thinking about all the MB games I used to own and play in the 70s! Which were so exciting back then, and at a time when I feel games were much more appreciated because they came at a price, hung around in the cupboard for longer and were simply played more. These days it’s a quick download, if it’s crap then, it’s delete and then on to summit else. This is a great topic. It's made me think about how the kids in the family see old style games. I'm lucky really as the wife's side of the family were brought up on classic board games and passed it on to their kids. Whilst the great nephews and nieces all have smartphones and consoles, I'm quite heartened when they often seem to prefer traditional games over killing zombies on the Xbox. The youngest who is 9 got out a Monopoly set and started to explain to me how great the game is, as if it was something that had been released in the last year that none of us oldies would have heard of before. During lockdown he taught himself chess and challenges his older cousins regularly. Maybe computer games are on their way down as far as popularity goes. There are only so many aliens you can zap before boredom sets in I suppose. And there still seems to be plenty of kid's sports teams around my area, so perhaps the media picture of kids holed up in bedrooms in front of screen might be exaggeration. But what would I know ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2022 20:27:45 GMT
One I always wanted but I never got! and where the advert on tele completely exaggerated it to make it look the best game ever lol, was Tank command!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 23, 2022 20:28:37 GMT
Used to love marbles, the look, feel & sound of them clanking about in a cloth bag, especially the white ones which I seem to remember being called 'milkies', I think the correct name for the white ones is 'cat's eye' marbles. Remember buying small bags of them from the newsagent. Never had any ball bearings, used to covet them though, they used to fascinate me, I have a memory of someone at school having a large bag of them.
The bigger sized marbles were known as 'dobbers'.
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Post by Sparky on Feb 23, 2022 20:40:50 GMT
Used to love marbles, the look, feel & sound of them clanking about in a cloth bag, especially the white ones which I seem to remember being called 'milkies', I think the correct name for the white ones is 'cat's eye' marbles. Remember buying small bags of them from the newsagent. Never had any ball bearings, used to covet them though, they used to fascinate me, I have a memory of someone at school having a large bag of them. The bigger sized marbles were known as 'dobbers'. Blimey Arthur - I forgot about all the names for Marbles. They were a currency in my primary school playground.
There were large Glass ones, I saw them in Green, Blue and Red, about an inch in diameter - it transpired the kid who had them got them from a display in Huckleberry Willow... Think they were the Dobbers.
There were "steelies" - basically a steel ball (see crossfire above) - available in normal and dobber size.
As you say - "Milkies". Wasn't there "Cats Eyes"?
Different Marbles could trump others....
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Post by Cartman on Feb 24, 2022 7:34:44 GMT
Yes, I used to like and collect marbles, they had a kind of coloured bit of plastic inside the glass. The big ones were dobbers, and you could use ball bearings, one lad at junior school, whose dad worked at General engineering in Radcliffe, had a big collection of them!
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Post by Sparky on Feb 24, 2022 11:20:26 GMT
Yes, I used to like and collect marbles, they had a kind of coloured bit of plastic inside the glass. The big ones were dobbers, and you could use ball bearings, one lad at junior school, whose dad worked at General engineering in Radcliffe, had a big collection of them! I think that was a case with a lad in our year at school. His Dad worked at some Engineering company and therefore used to roll up at school with the steel balls from large bearings.
I seem to remember there were also "Oilies" too - which came available in normal and dobber sized; the looked like they were full of black oil and gave off a spectrum of colours when they caught the sunlight.
There was a whole dictionary of slang for marbles too. Not sure if it was a regional thing and differed from playground to playground.
In a hardcore game of "Playing for Keeps" - you could lose all your Marbles. Literally!
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Post by Del Boy on Feb 24, 2022 15:33:57 GMT
I loved Perfection. Thanks for posting the video. Used to like Kerplunk and was partial to a game of Buckaroo
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