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 the side of the tube to form a “web”. The marbles are then placed in the top of the tube and held in place by the web.

KerPlunk Game from Ideal

At the start of play, the entire tube is rotated so that a hole in the base of the tube is aligned with the active player’s tray. Players take turns removing a single straw from the cylinder while trying to minimize the number of marbles that fall through the tube and into their tray. Once a player has committed himself to a particular straw by touching it, they must remove it. The player who accumulates the largest number of dropped marbles loses.

The onomatopoeic name of the game derives from the sound of the marbles tumbling to the base of the cylinder when a straw is removed.

The game is still available today, manufactured and marketed by the Milton Bradley Company in the UK and by Mattel in the USA, although the modern version uses a pink tube rather than the original amber-colored tube.

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Family Ties conservative offspring Michael J. Fox reverses traditional family values, on prime time in the 80s while Bill Cosby takes them to new heights. Blair, Natalie, Jo and Tootie learn The Facts of Life. Gary Coleman leads a new generation of smirky kids, Kirk Cameron gets Growing Pains, Bruce and Cybil go Moonlighting, and the super suave, pastel-cool Miami Vice ushers in the long overdue era of the rock soundtrack. Meanwhile, a new network is born, and Fox’s Married. With Children and 21 Jump Street enter the spotlight.

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. The movement of the ball is determined by movements printed on cards. The cards are played to enable the opponent to tackle to gain possession with the main aim to shoot at goal and score. All this is done by means of 52 cards.

Some sets came with a plastic pitch and others with a Paper pitch
It was marketed as the World Famous Football Game. The cards are not of particular players or teams, so they are not very collectible  At least two editions of the game were produced in England by arrangement with Ernesto Scola, Milan.

A big thanks to Skooldays fan Peter Brayne, we are now able to upload the rules to this classic Football Card Game

Penalty Football Card Game Rules

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Downfall – A strategy game from MB

This game was a classic
the advert used to say

“Get your counters down and block your opponent. Watch out, a wrong turn could lead to your downfall !!”

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Fashion in the 40s was certainly affected by World War II. The war puts fashion on hold, but the postwar leisure class makes up for it. Girls look just like Mom in identical outfits, while the boys dress up in Eton suits for business, playsuits for pleasure. The sporty hit the shore in matching beach sets or that daring new bikini…

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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 Cubes give smart kids their day in the spotlight, while Cabbage Patch Kids reduce grown men and women to savage shopping mall beasts. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make Cowabunga a household word, and G.I. Joe is repurposed for the 80′s as a “Real American Hero.” Nintendo brings home video games back from the grave, then shrinks them down to hand-held Game Boy size at the decade’s end.

We would love to hear your memories of Toys in the 80s so tell us about them by commenting below, who knows we may add it to our eighties collection above

Nothing I liked more than a good old Enid Blyton book to read with a cup of tea and a Mars bar in the summer holidays.

Enid Blyton Books for Children

Few children in the past 50 years would say thay havent at one time or other tried reading an Enid Blyton book. Her works included: The Famous Five series, The Adventure series, The Noddy books, The Secret Seven series, The Malory Towers series, The Five Find-Outers and The Secret series to name a few.

Enid Blyton was born in 1897 in East Dulwich, London. Her books have sold more than 600 million copies. More than a million Famous Five books are sold worldwide each year
Her books have been translated into more than 90 different languages
753 titles credited to her over a 45 year career with an average of 16 titles published per year.

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 USA. It seemed everything was bigger and better in the states. For example the longest domino run or the fastest snail. In the days when Robert Craig Knievel (October 17, 1938 – November 30, 2007), better known as Evel Knievel was jumping buses and smashing records every kid wanted to be a record breaker.

So today i wanted to remember the sticker collection that came from the amazing record breaking programme.

The Album costs 20p and the stickers came in packs of 6 for 5 p

With records were divided into 12 sections namely:

• The Human Being
• Animal Kingdom
• The Natural World
• The Universe and Space
• The Scientific World
• The Arts and Entertainment
• The World’s Structures
• The Mechanical World
• The Business World
• The Human World
• “Human Achievements
• Sports, Games and Pastimes

I was always keen to find out the longest word in Scrabble or the longest game of monopoly. Of course this gave me a new zeal next time i shook the dice and “advanced to go”.

Released in 1978 it was officially called Guinness Book of Record Breakers Collector’s Album

Published by F.K.S Publishers Ltd., Warwick House, 334 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 2QN

Printed by Severn Valley Press in association with Visa Press Ltd.

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 remember such, i hear it was first produced in the 1920s.

Escalado Game from the 1920s

This was horse racing with lead horses moving on vibrating felt cloth stretched out on your best dinner table.

Escalado had one main challenge to take into account as with all horse racing simulations, the problem of giving the element of chance and surprise fundamental to the thrill of horse racing. This is were the law of vibration causes the random element. The turning an old-fashioned crank at one end of the table pulling against the tightly clamped other end ofthe cloth vibrated, resulting in the erratic movement of several, probably highly toxic lead, model horses frozen in mid-gallop. Some wobbled sideways and off the table, one landed on the cats sleeping head, but some did actually head forwards for the finishline.

Due to the falling over and the height of the table to fall from, most my lead horses had broken legs and sticky tape, so it looked more like a grand national for the RSPCA horses by the end of it.

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

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 based on a double-sided board, with each side representing a different half of the game.

The one thing that stands out with Totopoly is the fact its really two games for the price of one. Both sides of the board have there own rules and are very different in nature.

On the training section side of the board, each player has a set of horses, which start and end this phase in one of two stables. The horses are moved around a loop, and, depending on which squares they land on, the player may collect “advantage” and “disadvantage” cards, which become important in the game’s second phase. Some horses may be eliminated during this part of the game. An unusual feature is that each player throws the dice only once in each turn, the same throw being used for all his or her horses.

The horses use the names of the winners of the Lincolnshire Handicap between the years 1926-37. The race, which was first run at Lincoln racecourse in 1853, is now run at Doncaster.

The other side of the board is the racecourse itself. Before starting the race, bets may be placed on any horse the player wishes. During the race, “advantage” cards may be played to improve a horse’s position; also, any “disadvantage” cards held must be used, with the effect of holding a horse back or cancelling an “advantage” card, before the end of the race. As well as the settling of bets, prize money is awarded for first, second and third place.

The winner is the person with the most money – though the rules have often been revised.