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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 ...
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. 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 ...
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 Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is ...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, ...
Dungarees or "overalls" actually became fashionable for a time in the eighties. Originally a few hundred years ago "overalls" or "overall trousers or "bib-and-braces" were used to avoid messing up your shirt and trousers at work. The one-piece work overall arrived in the early 20th century, in tough cotton or in linen, to fit over a shirt ...
I see even X-factor uses the Live and let die theme music these days. Understandably so as this 40 year old Bond theme just never dates and sounds as powerful now as it did back in 1973. Of all the Bond films I've watched, Sean Connery is in my opinion the best Bond, closely followed by Pierce ...
Back in 1972 Atari released the Pong game to the world. Pong was probably the first video game i ever saw. Closely followed by Old Boot Hill which was heavily advanced compared to pong. Pong is a simple 2 dimensional tennis sports game. With my home version it came with 2 further games, Squash where ...
Hard to distinguish, are the fireman from Trumpton, or Camberwick Green? Now name the firemen CAPTAIN FLACK & Firemen PUGH,PUGH,BARNEY McGREW, CUTHBERT,DIBBLE AND GRUBB Camberwick Green or Trumpton back in 1966 The series was written and produced by Gordon Murray and animated by Bob Bura, John Hardwick and Pasquale Ferrari. Music was by Freddie Phillips, and narration and song vocals ...
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 ...
