Penalty Football Card Game

Penalty Football Card Game

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

A strategy game - downfall.

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 ...

Guinness Book of Record Breakers Album

Record Breakers Collector's Sticker Album

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 ...

Escalado

Escalado

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 ...

Totopoly

Totopoly

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 Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is ...

Magic Robot Quiz Game

Magic Robot Quiz Game

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 ...

Crackerjack

Crackerjack

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, ...

10 toys your parents had

Etch-A-Sketch

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 ...

1966 Corgi Batmobile

Batmobile 1966 Model 267

One of the most iconic toys in any kids toy box has to be the iconic Batman TV Show Corgi Batmobile 1966 Model 267 It was a true competition to the other classics at the same time, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the James Bond Aston Martin. Few kids could avoid taking notice of this beauty in ...

Rebound

1970s Rebound

The Rebound game looked incredibly exciting. A modern day marbles with space age rings.The Rebound game looked so good on the television advert but in effect it was bowls with ball bearings. Rebound aim of the game In the Rebound game from Ideal, each player or team controls four pucks, red or blue. One at a time, players shoot ...