Favourite 70s board game or game in the school yard
Mar 9, 2022 21:15:09 GMT
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 9, 2022 21:15:09 GMT
Mar 4, 2022 19:16:17 GMT @getcarter said:
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.
This reminded me of similar handheld games featuring balls or various small objects in liquid, you would push a lever which would move the objects upwards through the water, the object being to get the balls or objects onto a hook or container, same idea as bagatelle or pinball but under water.