Games

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Battleship was an exciting strategy board game where you had to try and destroy your opponent's naval fleet by guessing their positions on a large playing area. The playing board comprised two sea areas separated by a vertical screen so ...

The idea behind Battling Tops was that you chose the top part, then chose the spinning part and wound the string around the base. Then you placed it in a notch in the board and pulled real hard (not hard ...

You had a funnel in the middle of the game into which you put a black ball. It spun round and round getting lower and lower in the funnel and then there were four little plastic chutes which all lead ...

Beware the Spider was an electronic game where there was a spider at the top of the unit with a spring activated part. If you touched the base of the game with the fork, as you tried to lift off ...

The object of Bing Bang Boing was to move various size drums, ramps and elevators to make a ball bearing bounce on the drums, roll down ramps and elevators and end up in a cup.I remember the colors of the ...

Fewer games can make me feel stupider quicker than anagram games. 4 year olds have been known to beat me at Scrabble, and on one occasion a Spaniard who only spoke 3 words of English. I have a deep phobia ...

Booby Trap... one false move and...! This game was madeby Waddington. You pulled back the spring-loaded bar and filled it with the coloured pieces. Large pieces were worth 20 points, medium 10 points and small 5 points. Each player took ...

British Bulldog was so favoured as a game of the playground that, like such other greats as Dodgball and Block 123, I remember, it seeped into weekly Brownie meetings and even became the game of choice for games lessons at ...

I always approached a game of Buckaroo with a mixture of excitement and fear. I placed it in the same ‘that made me jump!’ category as other children’s games such as I Vant to Bite Your Finger and Operation. You ...

Parker Brothers made a great game: it was a square cage with four windows on each side and a hole on top, through which a plastic bug was dropped (each player would take turns, dropping a bug in, shouting "BUG ...

Build a Better Burger was a 1980s game where you had to create a burger from rubber burger pieces: bun, burger, lettuce etc. all with the funny rubber bits. And you had to do this before the tall burger tower ...