Disgruntledgoat
Player Valuation: £50m
Subbuteo is still the only game i've never beaten my dad at.
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chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
My pitch was a proper old baize one. My mate got a modern plastic pitch which to me seemed horrible. What's worse than its shiny surface was that sprules from the edge of the footballer's base would catch on a bit of the fabric and would just stop dead.
Playing a home match on that abomination was the cheating equivalent of playing at loftus road.
3rd Generation
Player Valuation: £225k
Ha ha, we always ran the risk of a Godzilla type pitch invasion if the dog was the wrong side of the pitch when me Ma shouted him for his dinner.
Worst pet crime by far though was when the Cat ran off with Duncan McKenzie!
bol-uk
Player Valuation: £50m
THE BEzsT football game
Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
Just found a 5 a side Subbuteo here, so must be a later edition I think. Its called Subbuteo Urban Arena. Lots of accessories including cloth 5 a side pitch ,parts to build an arena,. About 12 players made of a lighter material than I remember. My memory tells me players were pretty tough plastic, these look flimsy. Obviously not as old a the originals. Any date anyone?
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Subbuteo was a bit early for me. I had a set but never got in to it. I had a similar game called Pro Action Football where the players were on top of a magnetic/spring loaded base which you had to press down to ‘kick’ the ball. It was ace back in the day.
Hunter Hart
Player Valuation: £50k
I've still got my Subbuteo in the garage complete with around 30 teams, terraces, tournament goals, which had white nets, and lots of other accessories. The teams are in various conditions dependent on how much I played them, they are all in tact, if one broke I generally couldn't sleep until he was repaired. I have got a mint condition Crystal Palace with the Vince Hilaire red and blue sash. Ive also got the Oxford United from when they were in the top flight, my dad also had a habit of getting me strange ones... East Germany, Chile and a pure pink, white, pink Anderlecht before it was popular to wear pink. I also have the Leeds all yellow with white and blue arm stripe. me and my mate would use all the players we wernt using as fans in the terrace to create a swaying crowd the fans you could buy were generally seated , quite often when Leeds were playing there would be pitch invasion if they went one down or lost an important game.
wilfjacko
Player Valuation: £8m
4-2-4A 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?
Mikey O
Player Valuation: £8m
Once my daughter was old enough I bought a set; pasted the fabric pitch onto a piece of board and glued the goals in place. Plus repainted all the figures (home and grey striped away kit); including a tash for Derek Mountfield - she loved a tash on a man did my girl.
Just imagine as a kid getting this footie game in your Xmas stocking- Super Goal - the soccer championship in a box!
Disgruntledgoat
Player Valuation: £50m
Anyone remember Escalardo the horse racing game that useful clamp to your mum's best dining tabke.with the old metal clamp bruising the wood -she enjoyed the game then realised the damage to the table
Your mum had more than one dining table??
Disgruntledgoat
Player Valuation: £50m
I had to make do with this, ah the sound of metal on floor, halcyon days.
Pencil cricket, that.
I've built a spreadsheet for it now. Got books of historic test series and my own world rankings and averages going back to the 1980s
I had that Joey. A great table top game worked better if you left the tablecloth underneath the track for softer goingAnyone remember Escalardo the horse racing game that useful clamp to your mum's best dining tabke.with the old metal clamp bruising the wood -she enjoyed the game then realised the damage to the table
Im that old the horses were lead and the end thing on the table were metal clamps.....I had that Joey. A great table top game worked better if you left the tablecloth underneath the track for softer going
a massive brown double Leaf Table
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