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  1. Dragon Tyke

    Dragon Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Dragon Tyke, Mar 21, 2018
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    yep, my brother and I played it endlessly playing the county teams as they were then
     
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    Lone Striker Well-Known Member

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    Still got mine. Brilliant game.
     
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    Jimmy viz Well-Known Member

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    Still got mine. Brilliant game.
     
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    Metatarsal Well-Known Member

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    My Dad has a set from, I think, the 1950s. Amazing how such a simple game could pass many hours.
     
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    Used to play my Cousin for hours with that game. He was an acute asthmatic , so poor
    lad couldn't do any physical excercise. He was a big sports fan, so his Dad bought him
    all the games available to compensate. Not unusual to spend hours playing Subbuteo,
    Owzthat or our favourite football game Wembley, when it was raining.
    Spotted that that particular game is also available on Amazon.
     
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  7. Donny Red

    Donny Red Well-Known Member

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    My favourite party game is that everybody drinks a bottle of whisky.
    Somebody then leaves the room and you have to guess who it is.!
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    Might be wrong but I think mine was in a little green plastic tube?
     
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    GeorgeRobledo Well-Known Member

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    Played that in the class back row at Holgate with Eddie Ledgard who went on to have a great career in the cricket championship!!
     
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    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    I did have that game.
     
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    MarioKempes Well-Known Member

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    Another game I used to love playing.
     
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    I was born in '81 but used to play this for hours with my uncle. I'd pick my best Yorkshire XI, world XI or all time XI before we'd start. Bloody loved it. Remember buying a modern plastic version in the early noughties, but it had none of the romance of the two rusting originals.
     
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  13. Farnham_Red

    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    I made one in metalwork - dead easy just needed a punch set and some hexagonal rod a saw and a file - no idea what happened to it *
    Not quite as good as the bought ones as taking the edges off was not so perfect so they didnt roll quite as well
    spent many a happy hour playing it in my schooldays

    I love this in the description in DT's link
    Assembly Required No
    Batteries Required? No
    Batteries included? No
    Remote Control Included? No

    * In case this was in contravention of some patent or copyright there is no evidence to back up my first sentence
     
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    HowMuch! Well-Known Member

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    There was also a Football version played on a small green plastic pitch that was divided into squares .

    Cannot remember the name but it was in the mid late sixties .
     
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    Jack Tatty Well-Known Member

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    Did anyone have test match cricket?

    Bowler had a tube you placed a small ball bearing on.

    Pitch was a green baize and had to be perfectly flat.

    Hours of fun.
     
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    Father Benny Cake Well-Known Member

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    It was called "Pokkit Socca", came in a green plastic tube, played it for hours!
     
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    Father Benny Cake Well-Known Member

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    No but I remember it at least one of my school friends had it. I had subbuteo cricket where bowling was a bit different but it was also good fun

    young people of today haven't lived with all this ultra realistic computerised versions instead.
     
    Farnham_Red, Mar 22, 2018
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    DodworthRover Well-Known Member

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    I had the metal ones but lost em. Some one bought me the plastic ones from ingoldmells market two quid.
     
    DodworthRover, Mar 22, 2018
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    Loved that game - we played it for hours in each other's houses
     
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