In this video we look at my top 10 vintage table top football games from blow football to striker, which did you play? did you have a favourite/ let me know in the comments .
Enjoyed that. I played most of these games as a kid but I reckon my favourite was Casdon soccer. Two knobs each end which swivelled the players which had a plastic tab at the base which "kicked" the ball. Was actually better than my description ! Cheers !!
I know the one you mean, its hard when your doing top 10's always have to leave some good ones out but I try and include as many different games as pos to make it interesting , glad you enjoyed the video though
Your channel Rocks,,, I had Subbuteo and Striker,,good old memories long before computer games,,,first ever electronic game I tried was ping pong on a TV lying flat that was in Switzerland around 74,,,,,long time back but fond memories,,Thanx for a great vid,,have an awesome weekend,,,
Loved this one......at some time I must have owned virtually all of these, personally speaking though I never got the appeal of actually playing Subbuteo - apart from of course the fantastic accessories they made such as the Floodlights, the stands, the TV stand with reporter and cameraman, referee/linesmen, etc and the actual Cup replicas - I actually bought the accessories but just could not get on with the actual game !itself ! Personal likes were: Striker and Super Striker, Big League (Chad Valley) - that was the one where the players were similar to striker but you had to pull the leg back to kick the ball (rather than tap on the head as in Striker). But my number one favourite was:....... Waddingtons Table Soccer. I know it was a glorified "tiddlywinks" and the pitch was only a folded up piece of cardboard, and the players were easy to break, but what a great game it was, some of the goals you could score were absolutely stunning, "Goal of the season" material no less. My Aunt bought me my first one back in 1969 as a Christmas present (I was 9 at the time). I must have played that game virtually every day for years. It was so easy to set up plus it was easy to play by yourself. I had to replace the set over the years but still had enough players to introduce it to my son, and he still remembers when we used to play it. Just waiting for my grandson to be old enough (currently only 4 years old). So overall I would prefer Waddingtons Table soccer with the Subbuteo accessories on the side. Big League 2nd, and Super Striker 3rd.
I had casdon soccer in the 1970s absolutely loved it and my brother had big league football game in the early 70s with Martin chivers on the front of the box.
Subbuteo was by far the best! The number of accessories increased significantly if you used Hornby railway stuff which was the same scale. If I had the money and the space for it I'd love to have a full subbuteo pitch and an adjacent train station with intercity train 😂 I've been getting nostalgic about a football game I ordered out of the back of a magazine sometime in the 90's, it was a board game where you had a football club, you played games and if you won the league then you could earn money and buy players.
I shouldn't admit this but I still have that Subbuteo record. My dad kept all my 70s toys. The record was horrendous. That chant of "yo yo ho, Subbuteo.....SUBBUTEO"...ROFL.
I did a little experiment to see which game is more realistic when it comes to things like scores & timings. A 1970s, 1980s game called "kickoff" (similar to the "penalty" examplar in this video), where you choose from 8 cards to play.
The one thing I remember about Blow Football was how the saliva used to gather at the end of the straw and spill out, water logging the pitch! Subbueto was by far the best of them all and a wonderful Christmas gift. I loved the feel of the velvety green field and the earnestness of the little men wobbling away as the crowd roared. I do however feel a little short changed by Santa Claus because until now I had absolutely no idea that all these accessories even existed!
Forget the football I use to love the crowd violence with subutteo great times me and my brother the yids and my firm the chelsea headhunters of course we always took their end 🤛🏼🤛🏼🤛🏼😂👍
Had the 2 versions of Striker. Can go into details. Don't think there was a third version. Just be careful hitting their heads for a kick forward. You could damage the figure : ) Second version had a spring action re goalkeepers for defensive purposes. First version, they were more staid, defensive wise. In the first version they could only throw forward to the defense.
There were three versions of the box - Striker, Super Striker (with diving goalkeepers) and Floodlit Super Striker (which came with floodlights in the box with the game - you could buy the floodlights as an accessory too).
@@eddie180 I think that 3rd version came out later around 79 or 80. Xmas 78 we had the version that was best described as Newcastle v Man Utd right down to the Sammy McIlroy hair with textured and bordered non foldable pitch. The original was red v blue, all short back and sides 1968 style and a foldable, smooth pitch. I'm recalling from memory here.
