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The Beetle Game or Beetle Drive is a real family favorite. Vintage Games seem to be big again with the impending Toy Story 3 about to find release again. Certainly Mr Potato Head saw a re-surge in sales and i just wonder when the Beetle will make it into a deserved spot on Toy Story. The Beetle ...
Scalextric started producing slot cars back in the 1950's. The name came from the combination of Scale and Electric. This is what they were scaled cars motoring on electricity. When i think of Scalextric myself, i think of asking the question, have you ever sucked your thumb? Well i have never sucked my thumb but at ...
Super Auto Stickers from Panini In the days of my junior school - so around the mid 1970s sticker albums seemed to be picking up pace for swapsies in our playground. No sooner a kid had pocket money he became the victim of panini stickers. Among my earliest memories was a collection in around 1976 or ...
Who can remember the Space 1999 Eagle Transporter? If there is one toy that will surpass all others for indestructibility, one toy that will outlast all others, one that will chip all the paint from you other corgi cars, one that will prove useless for most car racing tracks and games it was the Space 1999 ...
Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men..."floppalobbaflop" The flowerpot men have taken a fair many years of popularity for more than one generation Bill and Ben the flowerpot men originally appeared in black and white certainly in the sixties as an effort from the BBC to help produce a few television programmes for children. As part of the Watch ...
Escape from Colditz for the Amiga by Digital Magic Software Ltd. It is a fantastic adventure game that will keep you gripped for years and is available on several emulators. Released in 1991 the Amiga games is based on the Gibson Games board-game. You are in control of a team of 4 prisoners of war (POWs) – ...
London Cabbie Board Game Here is a great game to remember from Intellect Games, London Cabbie This taxi driving game is a lovely little game that our UK visitors may remember. This game for 2 to 6 players is now very hard to find in complete and good condition as it was only in production for a few ...
Today's skoolday memory is the nostalgic UFO jigsaw by arrow games. It seems in the absence of video games that jigsaws had a good run in the sixties and seventies as a way of passing the time. For years jigsaws seemed to display a picture of the same chocolate box picturesque street or another harbour ...
If ever i had a game that promised so much and delivered absolute zero, Blast Off was that Board Game. Why such high expectations?. Well after purchasing Monopoly, Risk, Formula One, Totopoly and Cluedo it seemed that every game by Waddington's would be awesome (Apart from Scrabble made by Spears games) For some reason my 1960's ...
Spirograph Set Spirograph is a geometrical drawing tool from the sixties It's simplicity at its best with a vast difference between what you intend to produce and the final result. The examples on the box cover show the Spirograph producing beautiful results in the same standard as found by any forger of a twenty pound note. Spirograph' intricate stencil ...
