Toys You Wish You Still had

[Techno II]

Reading a lot of the posts has reminded me of the stuff I've STILL got in one of the sheds.....The old AD&D rule books......Old White Dwarfs.....(Though I sold my almost complete set...No.1 to 100 and something at the same time I sold most of the old Citadel/GW miniatures.)

Hero quest ?...that's out there, in the shed...as is the Scalextric set (I doubt that that would still work, though)

Does anyone remember a cricket game, that came in a small tin box ? (size of a matchbox-ish) The game pieces were hexagonal (?) metal 'rollers'.....though I can't truly remember what was 'printed' on the surfaces.

As an aside....I didn't own the game myself....but remember playing 'Battle of the Little Big Horn'.
Virtually impossible for the  US cavalry to win.

Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

Does anyone remember a cricket game, that came in a small tin box ? (size of a matchbox-ish) The game pieces were hexagonal (?) metal 'rollers'.....though I can't truly remember what was 'printed' on the surfaces.

Howzat! Smaller than a matchbox. I've got one in a drawer somewhere, not mine originally, I guess my Dad's. I think one roller was runs, and the other was whether you were out or not.

[fred.]

I had a fantastic wooden castle for Britan's Knights, that my Dad and Grandad made for me. No idea what happened to that.

My scaletrix I think was sent to cousins in New Zealand when I was a teenager. Not something I would want now, as seem to recall it always takes up loads of space and time to setup, and then you spent ages going to collect cars as they flew off the bends.

[FierceKitty]

Reading a lot of the posts has reminded me of the stuff I've STILL got in one of the sheds.....The old AD&D rule books......Old White Dwarfs.....(Though I sold my almost complete set...No.1 to 100 and something at the same time I sold most of the old Citadel/GW miniatures.)

Hero quest ?...that's out there, in the shed...as is the Scalextric set (I doubt that that would still work, though)

Does anyone remember a cricket game, that came in a small tin box ? (size of a matchbox-ish) The game pieces were hexagonal (?) metal 'rollers'.....though I can't truly remember what was 'printed' on the surfaces.

As an aside....I didn't own the game myself....but remember playing 'Battle of the Little Big Horn'.
Virtually impossible for the  US cavalry to win.

Cheers - Phil.

And the batsman was a metal weight on a pivot with a string you released when the ball, rolled in a little trough, approached the wicket? Fielders had a little concavity to catch you out?

More fun than the real sport, though that's damning with faint praise, I suppose.

[Orcs]

My action man in the rare Highlander outfit.
The toy double barrel shotgun that fired corks

[Heedless Horseman]

I didn't own the game myself....but remember playing 'Battle of the Little Big Horn'.
Virtually impossible for the  US cavalry to win.
Cheers - Phil.

Also had a 'Little  Big Horn' board game with pre-painted figs. Too Right , Cav couldn't win! lol. Nice board, though! lol.

I also have a 'confused' 'memory' of playing on a friend's battle game... some sort of 'spring loaded thing (?)'... where you shot at tanks / troops... hit, and they dropped!
VERY unclear... anyone know?  

[Heedless Horseman]

My action man in the rare Highlander outfit.
The toy double barrel shotgun that fired corks

Lusted after that Shotgun... but was getting too old.
Action Men!!! Had about 8! Plus tanks and a/c, Jeep...  'The Battle Of The Bulge' has never been refought more fervently, than when garden had snow!  
(I was really, TOO old for such stuff at the time...but WTH! ). 

[Raider4]

Howzat! Smaller than a matchbox. I've got one in a drawer somewhere, not mine originally, I guess my Dad's. I think one roller was runs, and the other was whether you were out or not.

Sounds like a commercial version of pencil cricket? Many a school hour spent playing that. Probably should of been concentrating on the educashun . . .

[steve_holmes_11]

Sounds like a commercial version of pencil cricket? Many a school hour spent playing that. Probably should of been concentrating on the educashun . . .

Ohh Ohh, Sir!! I know this.

First Roller: 1, 2, 3, 4, Howzat, 6.

Second Roller: Various modes of dismissal and a couple of "Not Out"s. - Think of it as the saving roll.


Cheap alternative: Use a D6 (or "dice" as we called them back in the old days) with 5 resulting in the threat of dismissal.

[FierceKitty]

1 = die
more than 1 = dice

Someone's going to have to take over. I'm getting too old for this.

[Raider4]

Ohh Ohh, Sir!! I know this.

First Roller: 1, 2, 3, 4, Howzat, 6.

Second Roller: Various modes of dismissal and a couple of "Not Out"s. - Think of it as the saving roll.

That's the one!

Although I quickly realised that the odds of scoring a six were ridiculously high, so changed the numbers to 0, 1, 2, 3, Howzat, 4. If you rolled a '4', roll again. If that was also a '4' then upgrade to a '6'. More realistic . . .

Cheap alternative: Use a D6 (or "dice" as we called them back in the old days) with 5 resulting in the threat of dismissal.

'Cheap'? What's cheaper than a couple of old pencils? Also, pencils are allowed, nay required, in the classroom. Dice, not so much . . .

[Raider4]

1 = die
more than 1 = dice

Yes, correct. But . . . usage wins out here.

It's like car tax. Technically no such thing, but if I say "Car tax is due this month " everyone knows what I mean.

[DecemDave]

Many a school hour spent playing that. Probably should of been concentrating on the educashun . . .

yes my teacher warned me if I didnt stop daydreaming and playing instead of learning, I would end up still playing with toys as an old man relying on imaginary buddies for company.

Oh how wrong she was.

Duh?   

[DecemDave]

I had a fantastic wooden castle for Britan's Knights, that my Dad and Grandad made for me. No idea what happened to that.
recall it always takes up loads of space and time to setup, and then you spent ages going to collect cars as they flew off the bends.

Sounds like it was based on our local stretch of the A27.  The news now reports days when there are no crashes and since built it has been subject to endless plans and consultations.

[FierceKitty]

yes my teacher warned me if I didnt stop daydreaming and playing instead of learning, I would end up still playing with toys as an old man relying on imaginary buddies for company.

Oh how wrong she was.

Duh?  

I've always regretted that my Afrikaans teacher, whose life I made Hell on Earth, never knew I'd grown up to marry an Afrikaaner. First wife, not Lee.