| Benzhiyi |
... or still do, possibly.
What were/are your faves?
Following on from Baloo's dark secrets regarding Dungeons & Dragons, I was a bit of a Hero Quest addict, although I always had to play the evil wizard being the oldest of four brothers. A real classic.
Football-wise, I used to have one just called Table Soccer or something by Waddingtons, was basically just like tiddywinks with eleven red pieces and eleven blue ones and a goal at each end. Loved it though. :D
Also a game called Emlyn Hughes Team Tactix, which still is probably the only decent football board game in history. I also had Terry Venables Football Manager (ok) and Wembley (shite).
Favourite game of all time though was called Escape From Atlantis. I actually managed to pick up a brand new version on eBay last year and it's the one board game that, even in my mid-twenties, I can still enjoy like a kid. :) |
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| Neil the Eagle |
There was a thread on this a while back, but damned if I can find it.
The London Game for me. |
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| Fatman |
| of course there was The Game of Life and Mousetrap |
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| Gosling |
| Chess. Nothing else gets close. |
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| Gooders |
Still play Balderdash sometimes.
And my niece's Simpsons Cluedo briefly rekindled my enthusiasm for it over the Christmas holiday.
Used to play Risk, Totopoly and The Game of Life in my younger days.
Never much liked Monopoly - too long-winded. |
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| baroli |
Risk. Any similarities between me and Hitler are purely co-incidental.
It was also the only way I ever retained any geographic knowledge and I still think that the world starts f America and ends East of Asia. |
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| BaldEagle96 |
Travel Go was always the family favourite.
Personally I liked Risk and Stratego... |
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| Grim Reaper |
Was Mouse Trap the biggest waste of time or what?
Great board games included Wembley, Totopoly (Horse No.10 always seemed to win when I played it) loved Monopoly ( so much so that I failed my mocks as I was playing it non-stop in 19991 when I should have been revising) and a brilliant game that my mate got from a charity shop called The Bottom Line. Similar to Monopoly but much more flowing in that once you got a set of anything you were encouraged to sell it for megabucks and then open the game back up and allow other people to start buying stuff, unlike Monopoly where once a property is sold it stays sold for the rest of the game. If you see it, buy it. :p |
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| bert head is god |
| It would have to be Totopoly for me. Shortly followed by Grand Prix, which was a very similar game with cars (In my case Grim, the number 6 car always seemed to win to the point that my brother and I would fight over it) |
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| Gooders |
Grand Prix? I thought it was called Formula 1?
Used to play that all the time - "tyre wear 1, brake wear 1". :) |
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| Ruskin Old Boy |
| Risk was an all time favourite; Buccaneer was popular for a while; Wembley; the Waddington's one that Ben referred to; Cluedo. |
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| bert head is god |
quote:
Originally posted by Gooders
Grand Prix? I thought it was called Formula 1?
Used to play that all the time - "tyre wear 1, brake wear 1". :)
I bow down to your superior memory Gooders. You are quite correct. |
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| Gooders |
| Buccaneer! Good god I had forgotten all about that. :p |
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| Mat ov CPFC |
| Risk is always a favourite. Never played Diplomacy but reckon I would like it ( although whether I would be any good.......;) ) |
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| as216 |
| My aunt used to work for MB/Hasbro so we used to get loads of freebies and the cupboards at home are stuffed full of them - used to love Game Of Life. I had the original Hero Quest as well but could never get my head round it and only took it all out of the box once. |
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| henryhallandhisbasque |
It's marvellous.
I'll teach you how to play one day. |
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| Ben H |
quote:
Originally posted by Neil the Eagle
There was a thread on this a while back, but damned if I can find it.
The London Game for me.
Neil, is this it? |
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| oz_da II |
My favourites were:
Scotland Yard
Safecracker
Rat Race
Monopoly
The Game of Life
And not really a board game but I used to play "Crossbows and Catapults". |
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| Riccardo |
quote:
Originally posted by Benzhiyi
... or still do, possibly.
What were/are your faves?
Following on from Baloo's dark secrets regarding Dungeons & Dragons, I was a bit of a Hero Quest addict, although I always had to play the evil wizard being the oldest of four brothers. A real classic.
Football-wise, I used to have one just called Table Soccer or something by Waddingtons, was basically just like tiddywinks with eleven red pieces and eleven blue ones and a goal at each end. Loved it though. :D
Also a game called Emlyn Hughes Team Tactix, which still is probably the only decent football board game in history. I also had Terry Venables Football Manager (ok) and Wembley (shite).
Favourite game of all time though was called Escape From Atlantis. I actually managed to pick up a brand new version on eBay last year and it's the one board game that, even in my mid-twenties, I can still enjoy like a kid. :)
Just how p!ssed were you when you wrote this ? |
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| jone-zee |
quote:
Originally posted by Ben H
Neil, is this it?
Whoo Hoo thats the one! Stangely enough was playing this at my sisters over New Year, she has kept the one purchased back in the 70's
Any remember Careers or Colditz? |
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| Ruskin Old Boy |
| Good lord - Careers - had forgotten that. |
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| Justin |
| Formula 1, what a great game that was. Thanks for reminding me. Colditz was good as well but agree with Gosling, chess was by far and away my favourite. One day I promise myself I will start playing it again. For 10 years I played for the school and county and entered many individual competitions but sadly have hardly played for 20 years. |
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| Panther |
Totopoly was ok as were Buccaneer and Cluedo, Monopoly always went on for too long. I played one more recently which involved stealing the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London and that was ok for a wet Sunday.
I also had Wembley, which was boring and didn't feature Palace (surprisingly enough), just a card and dice game.
There's very little to beat Scrabble, however, unless you're playing my wife, who knows every word featuring X, Q or Z in every language in the world and sometimes I think Martian and Venusian too. |
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| Hypodam |
quote:
Originally posted by Gosling
Chess. Nothing else gets close.
Ooh, La-De-Dah college boy. |
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| Niceaction |
| My dad was a big Avalon Hill fan and therefore I was brought up on Statis Pro Football (American Football) and Titlebout Boxing. Both fantastic games that I have just bought again. |
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| Diggers digs in? |
| I heartily recommend Balderdash, all you need is a few people who want a laugh. Winning and losing is fairly irrelevant, it's the in between that's great. Cut & Run still gets the juices going. |
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| jone-zee |
quote:
Originally posted by Ben H
Scoop anyone?
Another rave from the grave.!!! Good Call Ben |
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| jone-zee |
| Known as Uckers with some of us Brett ;) |
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| eaglejez |
quote:
Originally posted by Justin
Formula 1, what a great game that was. Thanks for reminding me. Colditz was good as well but agree with Gosling, chess was by far and away my favourite. One day I promise myself I will start playing it again. For 10 years I played for the school and county and entered many individual competitions but sadly have hardly played for 20 years.
Formula 1...classic.....and as for Colditz...majot controversy c1975 when my brother (the Germans) let me get out of the inner castle and then played his 'Shoot to Kill' card...just becaise it was my 'David McCallum'...still complain about it to this day (he's a typical Spurs fan) |
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| eaglejez |
| ...what about Coppit ? |
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| KYLIE MINEAGLE |
| Monopoly. Does Subuteo come into this catergory? |
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| PeterH |
I love Scrabble.
Chess is a great favourite and I love monopoly, Ludo I loved when I was a kid. |
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| Brett |
| Ludo is a fine game that encompasses every generation from farley's rusks to werther's originals. |
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| David Murray |
| Chess - Cribbage - Uckers ( ;) jone-zee) - Scrabble - Barracada - Mah Jong - Go - Backgammon |
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| Lords Eagle |
| Errr, once played a board game called Libido in my murky past, anybody else heard of it? |
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| Trolley |
| When I was an Ex-Pat in the East in the 70s, I recall enjoying the odd game of 'Carroms' at one of the clubs where I was fortunate to be a member. |
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| pallet |
Test match cricket, brought a set on ebay a couple of years back, the sad thing is I have no one to play with now.
Game of life
Escape from Colditz (sp) |
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| Benzhiyi |
quote:
Originally posted by pallet
Test match cricket, brought a set on ebay a couple of years back, the sad thing is I have no one to play with now.
Game of life
Escape from Colditz (sp)
I used to love that!!
Next time I'm over yours for some Pro Evo action I'll give you a game. :) |
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| pallet |
| Defo, maybe thats something I might be able to beat you at. |
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| Sunny Fan |
As with others:
Colditz
Risk
Totopoly
Careers
The Great Game of Britain
Cluedo
Also fondly remember:
Taxi!
Kon-Tiki |
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| Maz |
quote:
Originally posted by Sunny Fan
Totopoly
:grrr:
You'd spend several hours (and loads of dosh) training those bleeding heavyweights (Dorigen etc. What were the other names?) only for them to vbreak a leg in the first 30 seconds of the race...
:grrr: |
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| Trolley |
quote:
Originally posted by Trolley
When I was an Ex-Pat in the East in the 70s, I recall enjoying the odd game of 'Carroms' at one of the clubs where I was fortunate to be a member.
On the subject of 'Carroms', I distinctly recall having to sprinkle powder on the board to enable the pieces to move freely. |
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| Maz |
quote:
Originally posted by Trolley
On the subject of 'Carroms', I distinctly recall having to sprinkle powder on the board to enable the pieces to move freely.
White powder was it?
How freely available it was in them days in the far east... |
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| Sunny Fan |
quote:
Originally posted by Maz
:grrr:
You'd spend several hours (and loads of dosh) training those bleeding heavyweights (Dorigen etc. What were the other names?) only for them to vbreak a leg in the first 30 seconds of the race...
:grrr:
This is a half-decent Totopoly reminder site:
http://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/toto.html
Walroy Stables
Stevedon Stables
Black, cost 60 each: (1) Dark Warrior, (2) Flamenco, (3) Dorigen.
Red, cost 45 each: (4) Marmaduke Jinks, (5) Leonidas II, (6) Overcoat.
Yellow, cost 30 each: (7) Play On, (8) Priory Park, (9) Knight Error.
Blue, cost 20 each: (10) King of Clubs, (11) Jerome Fandor, (12) Elton.
The horses names "are the winners of the Lincolnshire Handicap run at Lincoln (now long since closed down) in the 12 years before the game was produced", and that the names of the stables "apparently are based on the inventors of the game". |
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| Elephant with mouse gyp |
We used to play Pit when I was a kid - it's a game where you have to corner the market in stuff like Flax, Wheat and Oats by shouting a lot. Anyway, I bought it to play with the family at Christmas and they've now added modern products like Coffee and Soya Beans - a move which produced an excellent drunken anti-PC rant from my mum.
Maz - the square of no return was Burst Blood Vessel, I think. |
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| Trolley |
quote:
Originally posted by Maz
White powder was it?
How freely available it was in them days in the far east...
Indeed it was white powder supplied by the clubs where on occasions I used to partake in the game. |
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| Sunny Fan |
Boxed in - go back 3 lengths
We used to play Pit as well EWmG.
And Masterpiece was a winner as well, especially as it had the "South Norwood in the Snow" picture. |
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| Elephant with mouse gyp |
From Sunny's Totopoly site:
"The 36-inch remix - This is a greatly expanded version of the game I created partly in response to the perception that the normal game is sometimes a bit small and too quickly finished."
Uh huh. |
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| CallMeBernard |
Pit is a timeless classic. The shouting and screaming, snatching of cards, yelling 'TWO' into yer grannie's face.... ah, happy days.
Careers and Stratego were other faves. |
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| Maz |
quote:
Originally posted by Elephant with mouse gyp
We used to play Pit when I was a kid - it's a game where you have to corner the market in stuff like Flax, Wheat and Oats by shouting a lot. Anyway, I bought it to play with the family at Christmas and they've now added modern products like Coffee and Soya Beans - a move which produced an excellent drunken anti-PC rant from my mum.
Maz - the square of no return was Burst Blood Vessel, I think.
Pit? One of my favourite games!! TAught it to all the nephews and nieces at new year. They loved it....
You're right about Burst Blood Vessel an' all... :veryangry |
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| pallet |
quote:
Originally posted by Trolley
When I was an Ex-Pat in the East in the 70s, I recall enjoying the odd game of 'Carroms' at one of the clubs where I was fortunate to be a member.
My mother in law is from Malyasia and has a Carroms board and all of the playing pieces, can you play Mah jong too? |
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| Trolley |
quote:
Originally posted by pallet
My mother in law is from Malyasia and has a Carroms board and all of the playing pieces, can you play Mah jong too?
I readily admit to also playing 'Mah Jong' in the East in the 70s, but alas I have totally forgotten the rules and would require a 'Refresher Course' to play once again. |
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| Gark Moldberg |
I tried to buy Escape from Colditz recently but failed. It's been withdrawn from the market because someone has bought the rights as they are going to remake the fillum.
I could have given my friend my version, but it was signed by Pat Reid. |
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| Grim Reaper |
quote:
Originally posted by LLCOOLSTEVE
Hotel
Is this any good?
Saw it just before Christmas for half price and was tempted (given my current lifestyle) but I just wouldn't get time to play it. |
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| pallet |
| Hotel is not bad, used to play it abit. |
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| pallet |
quote:
Originally posted by Trolley
I readily admit to also playing 'Mah Jong' in the East in the 70s, but alas I have totally forgotten the rules and would require a 'Refresher Course' to play once again.
Well Trolley I am sure my mother in law would enjoy the challenge. |
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| Richard |
quote:
Originally posted by KYLIE MINEAGLE
Does Subuteo come into this catergory?
Can't believe you've been the only person to mention the greatest game of all so far. I also had Subbeuteo cricket and rugby, but neither were as good as the football. How proud was I when I got my Palace strip team ... !!
Also loved Monopoly, Go, Cleudo, Risk, Scrabble.
Youngsters these days - only interested in PlayStations, eh ... ? |
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| A Wooden Fish On Wheels |
| subbuteo |
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| Elephant with mouse gyp |
| There was a game I used to like where you had to kind of flick little tiny footballers around. Maybe others remember this? |
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| IAN WALSH |
| what about striker where you pushed down their heads to kick the ball |
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| Al From Bromley |
| Yay! I just got The Great Game of Britain for my birthday! |
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| Oddjob |
No mention of Go For Broke?
That was fantastic |
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| Noodles 42 |
'OWZAT' & 'ESCALADO' - superb!
Although, strictly speaking, neither was actually a board game. |
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| Bens Jamin |
| Hero Quest was probably my favorite, also loved Key to the Kingdom. Cluedo was up there too, and Twister is a game that never gets old (especially when your with a few chicks!) |
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| A Wooden Fish On Wheels |
| I had Escalado out at Christmas. We used to make 'owzat' dice out of hexagon metal rods and letter punches in metalwork at school. I wonder what ever became of mine? |
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| A Wooden Fish On Wheels |
quote:
Originally posted by Bens Jamin
and Twister is a game that never gets old (especially when your with a few chicks!)
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| Al From Bromley |
| That's Dave on the seat on the far side! I'm sure it is! |
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| E_girl |
quote:
Originally posted by Benzhiyi
Also a game called Emlyn Hughes Team Tactix, which still is probably the only decent football board game in history.
We had that, it was good - also had Question of Sport, which wasn't bad.
My favourite was Monopoly, would play it for hours. Operation was another favourite. Also liked Pairs, Mousetrap, Ker Plunk. |
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| E_girl |
| P.S. Don't ever take games along on away trips if lightweight is involved - she cheats (.... only child & obviously brought up with her own rules!) ;) |
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| Bens Jamin |
| Wooden Fish on wheels that is the ruffest thing ive EVER seen!! Twister will never be the same |
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| A Wooden Fish On Wheels |
quote:
Originally posted by Al From Bromley
That's Dave on the seat on the far side! I'm sure it is!
You calling Dave a skidmark? |
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| Igor Iconic |
| I used to play a board game called Riddle of the Ring - based on the Lord Of The Rings. Great strategy game, but nobody else seems to know it. |
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| Al From Bromley |
quote:
Originally posted by A Wooden Fish On Wheels
You calling Dave a skidmark?
No, the bloke above the skiddy pants with his hand on his chin. |
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| Brett |
| Does 'Shut the Box' count? |
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| Il Padrino |
| I just had to look didnt i? |
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| CedarEagle |
| have got to widen the thread a bit but ... what about "Stock Car Smash Up "...you used to rev 2 cars up by pulling a plastic toggle through the middle of the car then point them at one another and let them go...when they impacted the doors , bonnet , boot and wheels used to fly off everywhere...10 mins of finding all the bits then 10 secs of fun. |
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| A Wooden Fish On Wheels |
quote:
Originally posted by Il Padrino
I just had to look didnt i?
And now you won't be able to stop. |
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| Heb 7:4 |
Although I'm sure no-one else will remember,
"Ghost Castle - It gives you the Williiieeeessssss!!!"
Not a great game, but repeating that line (from the advert) with your brother for about 40 minutes while on a car journey can make your uncle have a nervous breakdown!
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| woodsy |
Some decent games mentioned , dont think anyones mentioned the classice ALLEY CATS omg how decet was that
Up the Clarets |
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| PalaceMonkey |
quote:
Originally posted by Al From Bromley
You can still get a lot of the vintage gasmes from here (if only I'd known Colditz would be worth £70!):
http://www.boardgamecompany.co.uk/VintageGamesList.htm
cool site, lots of memories of playing stuff from there!
had a fair few of them too, would have been worth £100s today.
probably sold them for 50p at a carboot sale :( |
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| woodsy |
Some decent games mentioned , dont think anyones mentioned the classice ALLEY CATS omg how decet was that
Up the Clarets |
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| woodsy |
off the subject a bit , but can any one help on this
in the 80's i had like an INTERNATIONAL sticker book , They wernt stickers though , they were like Plastic Cards that fastened into the book by the 4 corners .
on the middle pages they were like SUPERSTARS or something , with players such as Zico , Socrates , Schifo ( belgium player ) gracing this area amongst others
i remeber the cards being expensive as a kid , as the normal stickers were 10p a pack for 5 and these were 20 p a pack of 3
does any one recall what this album was called and who made it ?
thanks
up the clarets |
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