Toys You Wish You Still had

[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.

[Techno II]

Thanks Guys,  It WAS 'Howzat'.....

Amazon even sell it now ....

The rollers seem to be plastic these days. (I remember those as metal ?), and in the little piccy, on Amazon, there are a number of red 'tiddly-wink' counters.....Don't remember those , at all.
£7-99p, to you sir.(I wonder we paid for it way back then ?....Two shillings ? (10p))

Alexander's cricket game rings a bell.

I had another cricket game where the bat was roughly the size of a lolly stick...the stumps were cocktail stick sized (ish).....the fielders sat on thin wooden bases....you were out 'caught'  if you knocked one over..the bowler used an elastic band attached to his arm to send the ball down. (This was fine until the band broke, and you replaced it with a stronger band...This meant you couldn't even see the ball flying down the pitch !!

Cheers - Phil.