We could only afford the two teams that came with my set (Argentina was one, for 78 World Cup, can't remember other team, though may have been Liverpool) so I set about them with my Airfix paints and made my own QPR team!
You can play this online now, no more waiting for people to be available for a game! Take on random strangers ...
But the fun used to be annihaliting your best friends and then bragging about it at school the next day!
The great Dixie Dean playing Subbuteo.....!!! please log in to view this image and Shankly... please log in to view this image
Ah Yorkshire, You were talking about Escaldado & we thought you were asking about Wembley! Your description seems familiar, but it was too long ago for me to be certain if that is the same game! It was definitely turning a handle & was horse racing though!
My dad worked in America for 4 weeks when I was little, brought me back on of these. I used to try jumping from the Tops of the stairs down, sadly it died when I tried from my bedroom windows (well the bike did), no more wheelies after that My better and myself used to keep a copy of frustration under the sofa until a couple of years ago, it was there to resolve the 'who was doing the washing up discussions !'
So why the obsession with Subbuteo aqua? Were you the Sussex Champion at it or something? Please tell. As a kid I used to go to the toy shop half way down Shepherds Bush Market. They were a Subbuteo specialist and stocked every accessory that was available. That was half the fun of it, trying to build your own stadium with the TV camera men and the like.
For our family too - somehow I always seemed to get holed up in Australasia. My Dad introduced an interesting house rule for our Risk game - he marked up the two joker cards as A-Bombs, which were shuffled into the rest of the pack, and if you drew one of those, at a time of your choosing, you could nuke any country on the map, so a deterrent to placing too many armies in one spot. New Waddington games were standard Christmas presents which the whole family enjoyed together.
The "Subbuteo" name is derived from the neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call the game "Hobby".
