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Post by Palmer on Feb 24, 2022 16:21:00 GMT
For me, Connect 4 is the ultimate...!!
Simple yet effective and unbelievably addictive!
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Post by Sparky on Feb 24, 2022 17:39:08 GMT
I loved Perfection. Thanks for posting the video. Used to like Kerplunk and was partial to a game of Buckaroo Buckaroo I think you can still get. Hungry Hippos was another that used to pop up a lot on school games days.
At some point during the mid 80s, one kid appeared with "Dungons & Dragons", "Warhammer 40000" - the Role Play games that Games Workshop did. Looking back they were kind of like Method Acting where you took on a role, and the game could just plod on and on. I could never get into it. Though I know some who's games would go on for days. You could buy metal figures that you had to paint.
If I remember, they were kind of part of the Choose Your Own adventure books - a book form of the Text Adventure computer games, where you could either turn left, right, and make decisions to move the story along. Fighting Fantasy seems to ring a bell.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Feb 24, 2022 18:58:43 GMT
Yes we had Frustration which was hours of fun, and we enjoyed Monopoly too. At school the other kids brought some interesting games in too, which also included "Operation" where you had to carefully remove various objects with tweezers from the "patient" without it buzzing.
My next door neighbour had a Dracula one, which had 2 dices your rolled, one was for a Dracula counter who moved as well as the main players. If the player ended up on the same position as Dracula, you changed your counter for a Vampire bat style one, (as Dracula had clobbered you!) and then went round the board as an extra counter chasing the regular players.
At home we also had a game called "Dragsters" where the player had to flick a marble with a flexible trigger, which then was meant to rebound the marble to hit the rear of the tiny plastic cars, and push all 4 to the finish line, one at a time, before the opponent was able to do the same. The difficult one was always the nearest car to the left of the trigger.
I remember a visit we made to a family friends house, and the other boys in the family who were a bit older than me had the Kojak board game. The counters were small plastic Buick sedans, the same shape as Kojaks car (or the Corgi toy - but a lot smaller).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2022 19:21:06 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! Dobbers lol that’s the one! Don’t know where I got Gobby’s from haha But what were the painted white ones called with the different colour swirly bits on! Can’t think what there called still! |
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Post by Dirty Epic on Feb 25, 2022 12:26:33 GMT
Kerplunk was brilliant  |
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Post by Palmer on Feb 25, 2022 14:18:37 GMT
Kerplunk is still brilliant!!!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Feb 25, 2022 20:01:28 GMT
Although a 70's game I never played Ker-Plunk until it was bought as a present one Christmas for one of our twins back in the mid-90's. Not a bad game but I still prefer Mouse Trap.
I had Mouse Trap bought for me one year and enjoyed building it up though never had a problem of it failing to work. Some days I would just take the game out to build as I enjoyed the 'Heath Robinson' approach that it employed to catch the mouse.
I must admit though that I was never a great fan of board games and instead spent more time with my Matchbox Superfast track (that was until the Scalextric of course!).
Sam.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2022 17:35:19 GMT
Kerplunk was brilliant  Talking about Kerplunk I’ve got a more up to date version called Tumbling Monkeys lol! essentially it’s the same game, where ya have a palm tree, then ya put coloured spikes through like Kerplunk, two colours on each level, then ya tip 30 little plastic monkeys at the top in which a lot of them will fall and become entwined between the spikes at different levels mainly due to having curly tails which are deliberate. Then the object is for a player to roll the dice and depending what colour he gets, then determines the colour of spike ya pull from the palm tree, ya can only pull one colour from the top level and work ya way down. Obviously by drawing the spikes, monkeys are gonna fall, and so when all the monkeys have fallen from the tree, the winner is the player with the least number of monkeys! Once all the monkeys have fallen from the tree! I think it’s got more scope than Kerplunk and is more exciting because when the monkeys begin to drop, some can potentially link themselves to each other with their tails! and be hanging, and so a player cannot speculate just how many monkeys will drop to the bottom and the amount they will end up with.. |
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Post by Sparky on Feb 27, 2022 17:39:01 GMT
I remember a visit we made to a family friends house, and the other boys in the family who were a bit older than me had the Kojak board game. The counters were small plastic Buick sedans, the same shape as Kojaks car (or the Corgi toy - but a lot smaller).
I remember the Kojak game. Never played it.
There was a Sweeney Board game... Anyone on here Once have or still got it?
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Post by Steve Austin on Feb 27, 2022 21:28:52 GMT
I remember a visit we made to a family friends house, and the other boys in the family who were a bit older than me had the Kojak board game. The counters were small plastic Buick sedans, the same shape as Kojaks car (or the Corgi toy - but a lot smaller).
I remember the Kojak game. Never played it.
There was a Sweeney Board game... Anyone on here Once have or still got it?
I've got it Sparky, more for the memorabilia than a plaything. I still have my battleships game by MB that I had as a kid, Treasure of the Pharoahs, Microdot, Chartbuster, Six Million Dollar Man (naturally) & Escape From Colditz to name a few. In the 80s, I had a couple of electronic games, including Jimmy & Mini Munchman. It's rare these days that I play any board games, times changed I guess but I did like playing them back in the day. |
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