Games from the 70's

I grew up with three older brothers.
I have more than one of these.....for protection, you understand..... ;)


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I also had one of these. Loved it!!

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Who remembers these things that you put caps into and then threw. You could fold about 20 caps on top of each other for a bigger bang.

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Evel Knievil stuntbike reminded me of this as well...

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came with a sort of toothed "ripcord" thing that spun the big Gyro-Wheel like crazy...
 
i used to love tin can alley - there was also one where it projected a spot on the screen and you had to 'shoot it' with a gun that looked a bit like a pump action shot gun - had to be played in a darkened room.

board game wise stratego was a firm favorite , and in theory risk although i don't ever recall finish a game .. and bucaneer (still got that somewhere)
 
dinners said:
Who remembers these things that you put caps into and then threw. You could fold about 20 caps on top of each other for a bigger bang.

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Remember them well. We progressed from them to using 2 large bolts joined together with a nut, with some match heads inbetween. Was even louder
 
also that car racing track that you had to set up going down a flight of stairs , with a lop the loop at the bottom
 
big soft moose said:
board game wise stratego was a firm favorite
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I've still got that :)

Bright light behind your opponent and you could just about see through the pieces to make out where the bombs were placed.
 
it was like that , but i'm not sure it was actually hot wheels (google can only find the modern stuff which looks a bit rubbish in comparrison)
 
like downfall - great game in the 70s and 80s, - rubbish now

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big soft moose said:
it was like that , but i'm not sure it was actually hot wheels (google can only find the modern stuff which looks a bit rubbish in comparrison)
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I had one that was like hotwheels but instead of sections of track it was one long strip (with loop the loop)

I'm sure it was bob sleighs too rather than cars.
 
mine was definitely cars and had track in sections - it had a white track with red and white stripes and a device at the top that was supposed to trigger two cars on paralel tracks, but frequently didn't
 
The Mattel Vertibird. Since it used to eat batteries, Dad converted it to run from a variable voltage model railway transformer which could go up to 12V... The Vertibird was supposed to run on 6V. On 12V it could probably have lifted the cat, let alone the little plastic car. Strangely, such electrical abuse didn't kill it but it ended up at the tip as part of a downsize about 35 years ago.

 
another favorite was battle board, or battle field or something like that - it had little men on pegs that you had to move up to wall in the middle, and a puffer thing that you blew into holes on your side to blow out your oponents pegs on their side.

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big soft moose said:
mine was definitely cars and had track in sections - it had a white track with red and white stripes and a device at the top that was supposed to trigger two cars on paralel tracks, but frequently didn't
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Matchbox,
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The one I had was a yellow track though.
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I also had a Corgi Rockets Grand Canyon
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nilagin said:
Matchbox,
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The one I had was a yellow track though.
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I also had a Corgi Rockets Grand Canyon
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The one I had was an oval track, with a loop.
There was a long black launcher section where you pulled back a red lever on the top, and when the car entered one end it was "pinged" forward through the loop and back round again. The track was red, and the loop yellow.

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I still have a Subutteo Rugby as well as a Cricket set tucked away somewhere, but before those I had Casdon Soccer
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I still had it during the eighties and workmates and I would have tournaments during Tea and Lunch breaks. Unfortunately it was destroyed in a fire inside a workbench when someone was welding some brackets to the back of the bench. Someone gave me a replacement which was a later version where the figures were just cardboard cutouts instead of the plastic figures mine had been.
 
nilagin said:
Matchbox,
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thats the baby ... we had a long straight staircase at the time so the cars got up fair old speed - enough to dent both them and the wall at the bottom when they collidided with it :)
 
I had a very old wooden one but I seem to recall loads of my friends having this version.......
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What I did have was the camper van with the upturned boat on the roof. I still have it to this day and my youngest kids play with it.....
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I had a very old subuteo cricket set that used to belong to my father (because he was too cheap to buy me a subuteo football set i suspect). I also had these weird house building kits which were apparently the precursor to lego that had metal bases with holes drilled in them, wires , and bakelite squares that slid onto the wires - those were another handme down and thus were more like toys of the 40s
 
I got an empty box about 12" x 4" by 2" one year. My dad told me it was an Action Man deserter. :rolleyes:
 
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