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Tank Battle In 1976 Tank Battle was the latest release from MB Games. My cousins had this game and it kept us busy for a long time in that hot school summer holiday of 76. Looking back it was a conversion of other 2 player games such as the awesome game of Stratego or Tri-tactics. The game only ...

Remembering Warlock of Firetop Mountain book today. Published by Puffin in 1982 Try and imagine life without computer adventure games or interactive movies and you'll understand why Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone became a massive seller in 1982 though it started conception back in 1980. For the first time a book became interactive. ...

Classic arcade games are still a very big attraction 30 plus years on. So what are our Top 12 classic arcade games ever! This wasnt easy but in some ways we beleive the depending on how influential they were in the 5 to 10 year arcade window would provide us with the basis to judge. 1980 was the ...

Risk has proven to be one of the most lasting board games ever. It is simple enough for all the family to learn but as the title entails requires a certain amount of risk to win. A complete set of Risk contains: A Risk Game Board map of the world, 5 Dice,a deck of 56 Risk cards ...

Monopoly Here and Now was released in 2006. After years of several versions of Monopoly, the here or now version took the world by storm. The Here and Now edition of Monopoly features top landmarks across the US. The properties were decided by votes over the Internet in the spring of 2006. As a site looking at ...

Midway were responsible for some of the greatest arcade games of the 80s. Today we will review some of the all time great from the retro factory of Bally Midway Arcade Machines. There is only one real game that stands out for all the right reasons, as you uncle or aunty ask your neighbour or work colleague, ...

80s clothes were the ultimate in neon clothing and outrageous hair cuts. 80s fashion seems have began reappearing again in lots of stores and on the runway. Today we will remind ourselves of what is the ultimate in 80 clothing Legwarmers Legwarmers were very much an 80s clothing icon. An elongated tube of knitted cotton (or daycron/polyester blend, as ...

Business Game Waddington's produced so many great games and every so often one stood out. Business Game certainly stands out for all the wrong reasons. Similar in some ways to Game of the Nations, it just lacks the lustre to get new players involved. Business Game is a re-packaged edition of an old classic board game called ...

Game of Nations Board Game This Strategy Board Game by Waddington's for 2 to 4 players looks great, but again it falls into a category of mine, i bought it, but just never played it. It sat in my collection for 15 years and hardly got opened from the day of purchase. Reading other blogs on the ...