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Captain Scarlet Toys
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Thunderbirds Toys
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Rubiks Cube
I spent hours with this damn thing. In fact, I still have my original Rubik Cube hidden away somewhere, still incomplete. I hated it, but it was just one of those things that I couldn’t let beat me. Unfortunately it did. I can’t see why it was so difficult though. It was very easy to […]
Big Trak
Big Trak was just so cool. I never owned one myself as a kid, but a few of my friends did. I desperately wanted one, but my dad said it was a waste of money since all it did was move around after pressing a few buttons. Needless to say, he did buy me a […]
80s Toys
Did you have a favourite toy in the 80s? Would you be able to describe it in two or three paragraphs? If you have a few minutes free and would like to share your memories of your favourite 80s toy, why not submit it for inclusion on 80sNostalgia? You could talk about it and what […]
Sour Grapes
Sour Grapes was a quirky thing, with cardboard cutouts of bunches of grapes for playing boards, and loads of green counters/ Each of the bunches of grapes had 20 grapes in total, 5 of which were unhappy grapes with unhappy faces on them. The unhappy ones were at random places on each card. You covered […]
Trivial Pursuit
Trivial? In one sense of the word yes, I suppose, in that it contained trivia, but it was in no way a small game. It was HUGE! The game of Trivial Pursuit involved making your way around a circular board, collecting six different coloured wedges. You earned these wedges by answering questions. Each wedge was […]
Operation
Careful…….. careful……. carfBZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!! Operation had been going for years, but my first experience of it was in the late 70s to early 80s. It was one of the first electronic board games I had played and probably the one that got me hooked on them. Inside the box there was a picture of a man […]
Mousetrap
What a brilliant game that was. The idea was to go round a playing board, and when you landed on specific squares you could add bits to the overall contraption that was called “The Mousetrap”. Once construction had been completed, the objective was to land on a particular square in order to be allowed to […]
Monopoly
monopoly
Kerplunk
This was another game originally from much earlier than the 80s, but one that I played throughout the 80s. It was also another game that took much longer to set up than it did to play. Set up involved joining two tubes together, then individually threading thin plastic sticks through two facing holes in the […]
Jaws
Jaws! RUUUNNNN! The Jaws game was the opposite of Buckaroo. In Buckaroo you had to place items onto a donkeys saddle. Place too many on and the donkey will kick out and throw all the items off. In Jaws, however, you had to remove items from Jaws mouth. Take the wrong thing and he’d actually […]
Frustration
frustration
Hungry Hippos
I hated the TV advert for this, although I quite liked the game. Hungry Hippos was an up-to-4 player game, in which you had to frantically bash a lever on the back of a plastic hippo to make it lurch forward and eat marbles. Whoevers hippo ate the most marbles was declared the winner. The […]
Downfall
Downfall was advertised as though it was a safe-cracking game. It was a two player game where players sat opposite each other. It was a verical board game in which you had to maneuver small coloured discs down from the top to the bottom of a board using 5 turnable dials with a few gaps […]
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