General All things Retro

[mooro]

There was a cricket Subutteo as well IIRC?

Yep, subbuteo did both cricket and rugby, but both were pretty rubbish

 

[McVicar]

Shoot, League Ladders, Subbuteo - all fantastic memories. Then there was Logacta, the chart soccer game played with dice. Hours and hours of rolling dice and entering scores into the chart soccer book. Sounds so boring but was blooming brilliant.

 

[mooro]

Shoot, League Ladders, Subbuteo - all fantastic memories. Then there was Logacta, the chart soccer game played with dice. Hours and hours of rolling dice and entering scores into the chart soccer book. Sounds so boring but was blooming brilliant.

Sounds right up my street, wonder if it still around

 

[ZeroTheHero]

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Test match?

Hmm, that's not what I remember. I'll have a quick Google.

Here you go:

 

[Scotchegg]

I don't know Logacta, but used to play a dice game where you'd roll two dice to get the score (5 and 6 were nil) and create your own FA or World cup. More time was spent drawing out the teams and writing them in the book than actually getting the results.

Did the same with cricket, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 were all scoring shots, 5 was out. You'd then roll again to get the method of dismissal etc. Sure there was a game called 'howzat' which made it more formal, but the principle was the same.

Also worked for tennis, but only around Wimbledon. Roll the dice until one gets a 6 to win a set. 6 6 lead to a tiebreak!

Along with Final Fantasy books, a few dice were all you needed on a wet weekend!!

 

[McVicar]

Here is some info about Logacta - the adverts for it were normally found in Shoot magazine. Although you can now get Excel based versions of the game on ebay for about a fiver, original boxed editions of the game can fetch around £200.

Old Football Games | Logacta Chart Soccer

Logacta Chart Soccer is a 1970s football chart comprising of charts, dice, cards and pages of instructions. Magnificent game often seen advertised in the pages of Shoot.

www.oldfootballgames.co.uk

 

[SteMerritt]

Final Fantasy books

Fighting Fantasy books? I remember having this one...

 

[Scotchegg]

Fighting Fantasy books? I remember having this one...

I was (am) a geek and had loads. The originals are going for decent money now on ebay!

 

[Johnf]

Football Monthly was a great magazine and I still have quite a few stashed away.
I used to love playing the board game Wembley.
I’m also going to dig my old football Rattle out for the playoffs ?

 

[Mike_H]

Whizzer and Chips (hidden inside Look and Learn!), and Shoot.

I had the football game "Goal" with spring loaded players where you flicked their heads. I remember the plastic cover splitting quite early on and one of the players permanently leaning to one side after its spring was damaged. https://www.oldfootballgames.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=680288

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Yep, subbuteo did both cricket and rugby, but both were pretty rubbish

I had the rugby one (my dad was a rugby fan, so he bought it for us) - played it very seldom.
I seem to remember a large green plastic thing into which you dropped the ball for a scrum. It would randomly trickle out of one of the holes.
As you say - rubbish.

 

[Yellow River]

Had hours of fun playing this, still got it somewhere in the loft with original box.

 

[Yellowmania]

Shoot - and those wonderful push out league ladders they did each season

Whoah....I sent in a letter once and it got me star billing as “letter of the week”, I think i got some dosh/voucher as well. It was about some funny banter behind the goal with a Charlton goalkeeper Charlie/Carlo something or other I think, I remember he had a big droopy moustache.

 

[AbbeyOx]

I had the rugby one (my dad was a rugby fan, so he bought it for us) - played it very seldom.
I seem to remember a large green plastic thing into which you dropped the ball for a scrum. It would randomly trickle out of one of the holes.
As you say - rubbish.

 

[SteMerritt]

I had the Billy Hamilton board game...

That's definitely Kevin Brock in the middle with the trophy haha8

 

[Jason N]

The motorcycle I always wanted as a kid:

The motorcycle I've now got as a Big Kid:

 

[Yellow River]

Anyone else have one of these little beauties?

60 mph flat out, down hill, with wind behind!

Happy Days

 

[Jason N]

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Anyone else have one of these little beauties?

60 mph flat out, down hill, with wind behind!

Happy Days

Niiice! I had an AP50, that and the Fizzy's were the dogs when I was at school.

 

[Sarge]

GP 200 Electronic - the last of the Italian/Innocenti made Lambrettas ... design by Bertone ( now Ferrari's chief design engineer) a thing of beauty and a dream machine when I was a young teenager

 

[Sarge]

Late Rally 200 electronic Vespa .... another dream machine when I was a young teenager , finally owned one ( same as below) in the late 80s