Subbuteo.

[bigjonny]

There’s a bookshelf at my local station, pick up stuff and take it back etc. This book hasn’t made it back yet

 

[summerisle]

Still got this...had it for nearly 70 years! Used to play 5 day test matches.....two rolls with the 'runs' roller and the combination of scores dictated what went into the scorebook(I used a proper MCC score book!) For example two 1s or a 1 and a 2 got you one run.....two 2s got you two runs etc. 6 and 4 got you a four and two rolls for 6 got you a six. That way the timescale was fairly real-life. Great for the long summer holidays. Just realised that the above will mean absolutely nothing to most on here, who will never have played Owzthat !!!

Simpler and cheaper days. Crap mostly. lol

 

[Street end man]

There’s a bookshelf at my local station, pick up stuff and take it back etc. This book hasn’t made it back yet View attachment 74770

Brilliant!!

 

[summerisle]

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So Ken Bailey, 'England's famous mascot', was the best endorsement they could get. No wonder I've never heard of it.lol

 

[Steve Wigan]

Simpler and cheaper days. Crap mostly. lol

I've only got the rollers now,they came in a small tin. The cheapest way wasn't to use ordinary dice...just cut about an inch off one of those pencils with 6 sides and mark each side with 1,2,3,4,6, and owzthat. This is scary!

 

[EvertonCJ]

So Ken Bailey, 'England's famous mascot', was the best endorsement they could get. No wonder I've never heard of it.lol

He used to live a few miles from us and had a reputation for liking youngsters, shall we say. He was a good friend of Jimmy Saville.

 

[summerisle]

I've only got the rollers now,they came in a small tin. The cheapest way wasn't to use ordinary dice...just cut about an inch off one of those pencils with 6 sides and mark each side with 1,2,3,4,6, and owzthat. This is scary!

Make do and mend. In other words, skint.

 

[nevsonlymate]

.....and this:

You got paints with them to change kit colours.

Ha Ha.

Mum got me striker for Christmas I found it 2 weeks before hidden in the wardrobe longest 2 weeks of my life,opened it on the big day only to find I player as broken. Mum took it back to Blacklers who had sold out she swapped it for a Ringo Star guitar, i cried like a baby mentally scared since

 

[Coggy]

Which one was the one where you moved the players about under the board surface with a magnet on the end of a stick?

Lol.

Yeah , I remember that one too mate. What the heck was it called ?

 

[davek]

Yeah , I remember that one too mate. What the heck was it called ?

No idea. A strange contraption, for sure.

 

[davek]

Mum got me striker for Christmas I found it 2 weeks before hidden in the wardrobe longest 2 weeks of my life,opened it on the big day only to find I player as broken. Mum took it back to Blacklers who had sold out she swapped it for a Ringo Star guitar, i cried like a baby mentally scared since

Was Blackie the rocking horse there? Lol.

 

[Rob17896]

Where abouts Rob? Don't tell me we've met in competition lol

 

[onlyme]

Which one was the one where you moved the players about under the board surface with a magnet on the end of a stick?

Lol.

I had this, not sure if it was simply called magnetic football. The board bowed in the middle though, maybe a consequence of a cold damp house or maybe just bad design.

 

[davek]

I had this, not sure if it was simply called magnetic football. The board bowed in the middle though, maybe a consequence of a cold damp house or maybe just bad design.

Apparently it was called 'super soccer'

 

[Street end man]

A footy game came out when Subbuteo was at its height.......it called itself the real deal and we all wobbled in anticipation. Then we saw it. The players all had wedges in front of them and you sort of scooped the ball, and one poor lad in our street got it for Christmas.....it was crap. I got Subbuteo Floodlights, ambulance men, corner flags, FA Cup Trophy and a TV gantry on the same day. He was gutted. WTF was it called?