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Post by Sparky on Mar 3, 2022 14:04:50 GMT
I also remember getting Battleships for Christmas. That was an MB game and there was a blue one and a red one with red and white pegs to indicate a HIT or MISS. I used to just put all mine together in one area to try and cause confusion. Lots of fun - although before we had that we used to just draw a 10 x 10 grid on paper with A - J along the top and 1 - 10 down the side and draw our battleships on... We've still got an original Battleship game.
I was in a shop this morning, and they had a "classic" Connect 4 and "classic" Battleships as boardgames. Battleships game looked a little scaled down from what I remember.
Another game that popped up at school a lot was the Hangman game, with rotary Hangman thing each player had, it used to store the letters too.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Mar 3, 2022 19:37:37 GMT
Yep, we had Battleships! Could be great fun, sitting opposite each other with the screen up!
At school also, Some kids brought in "Guess Who", the game with pictures of peoples faces. One person picked a picture of the person with their name. Then the other player asked questions of the persons appearance, and by a process of elimination, they narrowed down who the person was. Then all the ones who didn't fit the description (depending on their questions answer) gradually had their pictures flipped down. Simple game - yeah, but it did make kids think.......
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Post by Cartman on Mar 4, 2022 12:13:25 GMT
Scrabble was good too, although I remember getting told off by mum for spelling out rude words when I was about 8...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2022 12:45:47 GMT
I also remember getting Battleships for Christmas. That was an MB game and there was a blue one and a red one with red and white pegs to indicate a HIT or MISS. I used to just put all mine together in one area to try and cause confusion. Lots of fun - although before we had that we used to just draw a 10 x 10 grid on paper with A - J along the top and 1 - 10 down the side and draw our battleships on... We've still got an original Battleship game.
I was in a shop this morning, and they had a "classic" Connect 4 and "classic" Battleships as boardgames. Battleships game looked a little scaled down from what I remember.
Another game that popped up at school a lot was the Hangman game, with rotary Hangman thing each player had, it used to store the letters too.
Yes that's right - although Hangman was another I remember that used to be just pen and paper before the plastic equivalent came out. Just trying to think if there were any more...
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Post by Sparky on Mar 4, 2022 18:41:02 GMT
Yes that's right - although Hangman was another I remember that used to be just pen and paper before the plastic equivalent came out. Just trying to think if there were any more... Hungry Hippos was a regular on School games days. One kid brought this in, and the plastic balls were missing - so he had replaced them with glass marbles.
Guess Who - which you can still get - under a different name I think - was another.
Mr Pop was a variation on Perfection, where you had a plastic head which hinged back on a clicky timer. You had to make up the face from a card picked up a random before the timer timed out, flipped the head forward and sent the bits flying everywhere.
Here's the advert for it....
In every Hospital dayroom in the 80s, there was always "Sorry" the board game. Must have been an NHS requirement.
I never worked out how to play it and used to think it was based on the TV series with Ronnie Corbett - which it wasn't!
Another was called "Go For Broke" - basically a game where you had to lose a £Million Little wonder we have a generation of people who are irresponsible with cash.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2022 19:16:17 GMT
I’ve just remembered this one! Which I had one Christmas! It was amazing and have looked many times over the years to try and find another one, but to no avail! Does anyone else remember it ? It was called Dina Diver! So basically you had a large plastic see through bottle! Which ya filled up with water! Then in the top ya put in this small amount of fine gravel, along with tiny plastic cutlass, a ships steering wheel, a anchor and a few cannons etc all artefacts that ya would find on a pirate ship. You then popped in this tiny little barrel shaped diving bell which was blue, and had two yellow pincher claws on it at one end. You then attached this kind of rod type piece of plastic to this little plastic basket, that then was placed in the bottle, at this stage it’s still upside down. Then the other end of the rod type piece of plastic then fitted inside the bottle top which then screwed on and rested in a plastic stand which was like a cylinder sleeve. You then turned the entire bottle upside down so that the neck of the bottle was obviously at the bottom inside the plastic cylinder sleeve, which would now hold and support the bottle upright and stop it from falling over. This would then result in the following: the gravel would fall to the bottom, along with the pirate artefacts, the plastic basket on the rod would now be upright, in which the height of this would be approx half way up the length of the bottle, the plastic diving bell would then immediately float to the top of the bottle. So the object of the game is, which looking back after 40 odd years was extremely clever - with both fingers you would squeeze the bottle gently which would make the diving bell submerge from the top to the bottom, the more pressure you put on the bottle with your fingers the faster the rate the diving bell would submerge, bearing in mind at the point you could not take your fingers off the bottle. Whilst the diving bell is submerging, the pincher claws would open outwards slightly. Then, once the diving bell hit the sea floor (gravel) you had to manipulate the bottle so the pirate artefacts were attached to the diving bell claws. Then by slowly releasing your fingers off the bottle, the pincher claws on the diving bell would close up and immediately the diving bell would begin to surface to the top of the bottle still clutching the artefacts. So then you had to slightly squeeze the bottle once again to submerge the diving bell and drop the artefacts into the basket. I played this game so much as a kid, it unfortunately resulted in the plastic bottle splitting. My head in bits, I ended up dragging my dad down the pub for the afternoon.
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Post by Batgirl on Mar 9, 2022 11:04:57 GMT
A word of warning about Monopoly: never invite Ally Fraser around to play it, he's such a bad loser! Sam. Imagine Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt playing Monopoly. I think Sam Tyler would be a stickler for the rules (and rightly so) but how would Gene Hunt react to losing.
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Post by Palmer on Mar 9, 2022 12:08:37 GMT
One has just sprung to mind that I loved (and still do as I have one or two knocking about somewhere!)... Car Capers!!
I ruddy loved that game and it spanned the 60's, 70's and 80's so I believe??!!
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Post by Windy Miller on Mar 9, 2022 13:35:49 GMT
Another long forgotten board game (might be pre-1970's) :-
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 20:35:39 GMT
Another long forgotten board game (might be pre-1970's) :-
Im only asking Lol, but is that a picture of ‘The Dell’ on the box, impersonating Mr Potato head!
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