Games

Madcat Marathon was a maze game. The object was to get the ball over and through obstacles from start to finish. The main body of the game was made of blue plastic with yellow obstacles. The game's shape was about ...

While some kids wrote to Russell Grant for guidance, and others turned to the pages of Jackie for theirs (or even went to the trouble of making those paper fortune-teller pyramid thingys that were so popular in the 80s and ...

Basically, Magic Robot was a number of large paper cards with a reflective disc in the middle. This is where you placed the robot. The robot had a wand/stick in his hand and you pointed this to the question, let ...

It was basically a box of riddles.From what I remember, you picked a card and had to solve the riddle. If you answered correctly, you could move ahead one space... or fill-in a square. Once you had moved so many ...

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Monster Mash was an ace version of “Pick-em-up”. But instead of picking cards up with your hand you had a “Thwacker” (That’s not Donald Duck saying “Cracker”) which was a plastic stick with a hand on the end that was ...

This is best described as a mechanical 'shaker maker' in my opinion. You would place your runny plaster of Paris mixture inside a two-sided mould (1 x skull, 1 x mummy, 1 x warewolf), and the mould is then placed ...

"Dig a hole and crawl in Dad!" That's about all me and my family remember about Mr. Gameshow, but we had a great time playing. Mr. Gameshow was full of amusing anecdotes. ...

The original version of Mr. Mouth was not that of a frog but a big Pacman-type head. As the picture shows, it had four branches off it, each with a small plastic hand. The game came with small disc-shaped multicolored ...

My Dog Has Fleas was a large plastic dog with holes all over it. You had to put different coloured fleas in the holes and then turn the tail. The fleas used to spring off. The last person with a ...