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Challenging game and great fun KerPlunk is a game first marketed by the Ideal Toy Company in 1967. It consists of a plastic tube, a number of plastic rods called straws and a number of marbles. The plastic tube stands upright on a base that contains four separate trays and the straws are passed through holes in ...
This Penalty football card game was made by Pepys Games in Italy. The box consisted of a football pitch, a 52 card set, set of rules and a wooden ball. Penalty is a beautiful card and board game from the 1960's where a ball is passed around a pitch with the aim of scoring a goal. ...
Downfall is still available, though with a modern edge. It has outlasted many other games and still proves a very strategic game for all the family. A strategy game of skill and cunning. Twist and turn the wheels to get your own coloured counters from the top to the bottom first. One false move could lead ...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z 2 // // Toys in the 80s have to include The Smurfs. They spawn a tidal wave of cute clones: Monchichis, Snorks, Popples, etc. Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony fly high, Jem steals some of Barbie's thunder, He-Man leads the Masters of the Universe to victory, and Transformers prove there's "more than meets the eye." Rubik's ...
If i said Norris McWhirter or Roy Castle in the seventies. You would immediately think of Record breakers if you lived in the UK. In other parts you may now be wondering what I'm going on about. In fact it was record Breakers that first enlightened me as to how outrageous people could get in ...
The game Escalado : Now i only know about this as i picked up at a car boot sale as a teenager and i have to say i haven't seen it around much over the years, but i can imagine that this was a great game for a family gathering and many of you will ...
Your forgiven if you think we have mispelt monopoly only if you have never heard of the Totopoly board game. Apart from the name sounding similar the likeness ends there. Totopoly is a great game based on the events leading up to, and during, a horse race. Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is ...
Made by Jumbo and Merit Magic Robot Quiz Game was Published in 1950 and While marketed as a board game, the Magic Robot Quiz game is probably more accurately a "curiosity" game. The "game" consists of placing a little robot figurine which holds a pointer in the center of a circular pattern of questions. The magic ...
Can you say Crackerjack without saying Crack-er-Jack? "It's Friday, it's five to five... it's Crackerjack" "CRACKERJACK!" As the time and place suggested, it was going to be 45 minutes of games, comedy and music. Whether Jack Douglas, Ronnie Corbet, Don Maclean, Peter Glaze and The Krankies or Leslie Crowther, Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart or that weird Stu Francis, ...
Below is a list of the type of toys your parents played with. Before the days of batteries and electronics, they were more likely to rely on rubberband powered toys and dice games. So enjoy our greatest 10 toys from yesteryear 1. Battling Tops From the late 60's to the early 80's battling tops was the family favorite in many ...
