Got to be Subbuteo in all it's guises of differing sport every single time.....but I am totally biased!
My brother had one of these. When we played it would invariably end in us hitting each other with the sticks!
No Nines, it had plastic handles, similar in shape to a shoe horn (without the curve). I think the handles were red and blue, and **** me, they didn't half hurt when you got a whack with one!!!
They were supposed to be tested for safety. My arse!! I blew up my neighbours wooden gatepost with a concoction I made using one of these kits!
Shove Ha'penny - we had a really old board in fine wood that my Dad used to polish up, that made a big difference in the sliding speed. Simple family game, that we had a lot of fun with - wish I still had it. Interesting that the attached article refers to Stamford in Lincolnshire, where my Grandfather on Mother's side came from, so wonder if that was the origin of our board - he was also a master carpenter, so he perhaps constructed ours? please log in to view this image http://pub-games.blogspot.ca/2012/04/push-penny.html
With the all important eye movement lever at the back of the head. I also had an injun, with a sprung thumb allowing him to fire an arrow
Wow! Magic moment or what, green with envy ... The original set I had (Xmas 66) had one red team and one blue, this came later when pocket money allowed ... anyone fancying popping round for a game?
I remember the name but not the box. If it is the one I'm thinking of it had a number of painted metal horses with jockeys and a straight course with several "fences" on a track that you rolled out on to a flat surface, usually the floor, and then stretched it across the floor with two rubber bands you attached round the legs of a chair to make it taut and then manually turned a handle. The equivalent I suppose of a seventies joy stick and now the mouse or game controller. This enabled the horses to move across the track. Entirely random which one got across the fastest and the leader could get stuck on one of the fences and be overtaken by the others while it's position adjusted ever so slightly to get through the gaps in the fence. Occasionally it wouldn't work and the horse would fall over. Is that the one?
Only the best play Subbuteo! Cloughies flicking technique needs correcting though! please log in to view this image
