My Munro Bobby Hull table hockey game from 1970 has a flipper coming off the boards for the LW side only (i.e. Bobby Hull's position). Using the wooden puck, you can snap a shot off that flipper that goes like a rocket into the far upper corner of the net.
@@VesqVj -- Awesome! There were 3 kinds of pucks - wooden, plastic with a metal roller ball in the center and a plastic one with a magnet in the middle. If I recall right the roller ball one came standard with the game and you had to order the other two... or maybe the wood and roller both came with the game. Either way I remember ordering the magnet by mail along with all the other teams (game came with Toronto and Montreal), and a "double-shooter", two players connected that you put on the center position when you "pulled your goalie".
Fantastic work dude! When I am playing my best hockey I can do 70% of your tricks, but some of them are really beyond of my imagination. Well done! Puttting my hat off! Really cool! Btw, if you contact me via skype (my skype is y.levdansky) I would really like to introduce couple of nice tricks for your future compilation(s) ;) Nice ideas are worth spreading :)
Not so sure about that. Stiga has been evolving over years and decades by the input of competitive players. There's currently only one pass that cannot be interrupted if done correctly: from left defender to left winger. It's true that player figures can't check one another in most places, and it makes this game perhaps more chess-like than other table hockey games: players are doing stuff on their own turns. What comes to having "poor defence", I assume you mean that defending is too hard compared to scoring goals. Even though player figures cannot check one another, you can reach quite sick level of defence by blocking passes and shots, positioning goaltender correctly, reading your opponent well and thinking strategically. In the highest level of play, where the scoring tricks have been practised to the perfection, the average number of goals scored by one player in 5 minute game is less than 3. I don't think that's too much.
