Subbuteo

[Costanza]

I had Subbuteo as a kid. Many of my friends had the modern early/mid-90's alternative which had magnets under the players. I was a purest in that sense.

When I was younger though this bad boy was my favourite football related game...

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[Peter Venkman]

Had to rack my brain a bit Flash but his name was Ken Bailey and he lived in B'mth, departed this earth now. No getting involved in the perv bit

I think most of the perv reputation he has was because he got arrested in the 60's for indecent acts in a public lavatory with members of the same sex, or so I read ages ago, bearing in mind homosexuality was illegal back then.

[Panda Paws]

Mine was the Swedish variety, Stiga. Made a wicked ice hockey one too.

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[Cookie]

Super cup football, what a game. It took 4 x D sized batteries and used to make a hell of a racket but charging down the wing and flipping an unstoppable shot into the far corner gave you a great feeling.

I had it when I was about 10 or 11 I guess but must of sold it at a car boot when I got older. Rather wonderfully, as a student in Stoke I found one in a charity shop for a fiver and that was easily one of the best £5 I ever spent.

[Arriba]

Subbuteo was more about the stuff than the game as it was pretty shit really.
Now super cup football was more like it

[Barry Scott]

Super cup football, what a game. It took 4 x D sized batteries and used to make a hell of a racket but charging down the wing and flipping an unstoppable shot into the far corner gave you a great feeling.

I had it when I was about 10 or 11 I guess but must of sold it at a car boot when I got older. Rather wonderfully, as a student in Stoke I found one in a charity shop for a fiver and that was easily one of the best £5 I ever spent.

I was thinking of that yesterday. Tomy Super Cup Football. Best table football game EVER [ost] FACT! [/ost]

I saved up to buy that and was quite tempted to get one on eBay, for shits and giggles, until I saw it must be collectable now or something.

[Leggett]

I had one of the Super Cup Football games, loved it. Kinda sucked though, cos as the youngest of 4, and being the only boy, I had to wait for mates to come over to play it

[Nomoreheroes]

Thank you NMH - I had the link ready and was pleased to get to the bottom of the thread and see someone beat me to it.

He had all the accessories required for that big match atmosphere - The crowd, the dugout and the floodlights too. But you'd always get palmed off with a headless centre forward and a goalkeeper with no arms and a face like his!

So you'd smash up the floodlights and the game was abandoned and the dog would bark and you'd be banned from his house. And your traveling army of synthetic supporters would be taken away from you and thrown in the bin!

Class! Now who amongst us cannot recognise the sentiments in those lyrics?

[4D]

I still have some subbuteo stuff in the garage, I even have a Bristol Rovers squad.   

[Benzel]

So many of the players broke though...

I think my cat loved Subbuteo more than me... So many lives lost.

[nevillew]

Subbuteo Angling - now there was a game.

[Bewster]

Subbuteo Angling - now there was a game.

not as good as subbuteo swimming

[Costanza]

I used to watch the cricket on the BBC(!) while playing this game. Although the version I played had a picket fence on the boundary.

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[THE FLASH]

I used to watch the cricket on the BBC(!) while playing this game. Although the version I played had a picket fence on the boundary.

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Test match?

[horlock07]

Would have been Test match, me and my mate even had official scre cards and everything and used to have a test series each summer - sad but true.