Attic Raiders Retro Reviews takes a look at vintage board games that are fun, quirky, unique or mostly forgotten and shines a light on these buried bygone designs.
In all honesty, it’s not. Most of the reviews here ARE for vintage games, but it’s not easy to find others to play them - it’s much easier to find other players at Wargames clubs so I got into Frostgrave and Stargrave which I now play way more than vintage, so I decided to add reviews for those to the channel as well to mix things up a bit.
Ive already have the perfect crew, a converted necromunda enforcers team to be judges like from Judge Dredd. Got the heads and shoulder eagles from puppetswar!
Ive just been through my mums loft because she wants me to get my toys out im an 1985 baby and just found my thundercat spin the body board game with all the parts did it have instructions? 😂
On this type of plastic, ive had more luck using very fine percision snippers removing flash instead of normal knife and file methods, another tip to keep it from tearing is to get it warm, I actually use the tip of my glue gun to heat it and then snip, works excellent for me.
It would also appear that the astronaut figures come in various color plastics, one of the versions that I purchased has Yellow astronaut figures the other version I purchased has White, but on the box cover photos the astronaut figures are Red and Green, interesting.
Alpha suffers from really bad radiation the Sunlight from it's galaxy is so bright? don't you mean the light from the Alpha's planetary systems star is so bright?. The astro visor concept is wicked, I guess walking on the surface of Alpha would be a death sentence waiting to happen probably better to be confined inside an expeditionary vehicle.
Excellent, Attic Raiders never disappoints with reviews of the most obscure board games, the Expedition Alpha art direction reminds me of the old terran trade authority books from my youth, they are fulled with amazing scifi art from the 70s/80s like the game box/board art, Expedition Alpha aesthetically and conceptually is great unfortunately let down by poor play mechanics, though that didn't stop me from buying two copies for my collection not long after watching this review, There is a good game in there somewhere I'm going to experiment and create my own rules and make the game I want to play.
"In the case of player 2... you ARE the monster" All Maury jokes aside... this is a cool game, but I think my favorite slime related board game is "Wipeout" a surfer themed game, Tabletop Island has that game.
The concept of this is genius for a licensed Home Alone board game! I just wish you played as the Wet/Sticky Bandits and Kevin was the bean because that would've been way more accurate to the movies.
It sucks that this game has so many flaws... I love the idea of it, that would probably explain why this game is so rare, definitely better off getting Rumble in the Jungle. The only good thing about this game is how it looks.
This is a cool game, moles are one of my favorite animals. The design of the moles are literally the most 90's "Fellow Kids" thing I've seen on a board game lol.
Looks very cool. Most games use the red lenses instead of green to decode certain hidden messages on a board. Welcome back! I got Heroes of the Maze recently and got addicted with mods and kits.
As you say, 'what a shame'. Fantastic idea, but not quite there. Although, being born in 1975, I do remember the excitement of getting the red and green glasses from the Jaws film in Cornflake packets; with the 3-D pictures on the back of the box. ;-) Really appreciate the review, though, because I'd never heard of that game whatsoever. :-)
Sadly I missed out on that being born in '83 (love jaws!) - my cereal excitement was the Dungeons & Dragons holograms on packs. I also collected the partworks Dinosaurs! magazine which came with T-Rex shaped 3D glasses for viewing the in-magazine posters. That was cool!
Ya beat me to this one haha. I looked at my notes on it and I think I have a fix for it. I’ll have to come back to it at a later time to verify. Great review!
I can't see why not - it really just needs the tiles printed with a slight alteration to the original image. Black light would be cool (like Vampire Hunters) but I'm not sure how that would work so that both players see the same area in two different ways at the same time.
Fun fact: Apparently there was a Palitoy Bradgate version of Pop Up Pirate that had the same design and mechanism as the Action GT version of Pop Up Pirate, only this time in the Palitoy Bradgate version, the barrel didn’t have a base to screw into, which is exactly like in the versions we currently have today, and basically the red clothes of the pirate were yellow.
Wow, fantastic video. Top notch. And you are absolutely right, this set is more detailed and varied than the previous ones. The best set yet. Thanks so much, James!
I did, yes, though it was for an Offer, not the asking price listed. I also bought one in February on eBay, but that one was crushed while being posted so never even got to me.
