Bigdaw Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 This is for the older Killie fan. In the days because computer games we had to use our imagination. Board games or table football was how you proved your manager skills. Subbueto was plastic figures in your teams kits. Flicking them around the pitch to create a football match. It was very popular. In Killie a lot of toy and sports shops would sell boxes with all the various teams. If you bought Killie it would also allow you to pretend the strip was other teams around the world who played in the same strip. This was my go to game and i played it as a kid right up to around 16/17....Our street had a League and an away game was at your friends house. I would get my pocket money and head down to the radio doctors and buy new teams or new players to replace broken ones. Striker was a game with larger figures were you pressed the players head to strike the ball. More expensive to buys teams however. still popular. Big League was also bigger players were i think you put the ball between the guys legs and flipped the head. Wembley was a card game with dice and you were playing in the FA Cup....used to play that in the street with friends, just got a group together laid down the board and you drew out the teams. good fun. Any older games any memories ? other games . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkG Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) Was just before my time but bought a copy of Terry Venables board game a few* years back when at uni. Monopoly with questions across a season. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *gads it’s been 20 Edited January 24, 2020 by NorfolkG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BigD'sGingerLorry Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 I got my teams from Scotch Corner. I had about a dozen teams but struggling to remember. I had Killie obviously but also Man City, Crystal Palace, Newcastle and Dundee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barneyboy Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, scalectrix and Kevin Keegan's grandstand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) Magnetic table football. You moved the players using the magnetic sticks under the table. Edited June 20, 2020 by skygod 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdaw Posted January 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 minute ago, skygod said: Magnetic table football. You moved the players using the magnetic sticks under the table. Ahhh yeah i had that to..it was frantic ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Repatriated Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 2 hours ago, RAG said: Ah SWOS. Best footie game ever. You can get it for your PC here https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbs Posted January 25, 2020 Report Share Posted January 25, 2020 Remember 'Brian Clough's Football Fortunes' ... I think it was called. It was a mixture of board game and 'PC' .... when PC meant Spectrum or C64. Random rolls of the computerised dice decided the strength of your team which you then selected from little player cards, the same dice gave you moves around the board and handed out options and challenges such as q midfielder is injured ... so you then rolled the dice to determine which player was dropped. It also gave the classic .... "Your two best players have died in a car crash" ... lost count of the number of seasons turned on that card !!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fankle Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/25/2020 at 11:13 AM, chubbs said: Remember 'Brian Clough's Football Fortunes' ... I think it was called. It was a mixture of board game and 'PC' .... when PC meant Spectrum or C64. Random rolls of the computerised dice decided the strength of your team which you then selected from little player cards, the same dice gave you moves around the board and handed out options and challenges such as q midfielder is injured ... so you then rolled the dice to determine which player was dropped. It also gave the classic .... "Your two best players have died in a car crash" ... lost count of the number of seasons turned on that card !!! My mate had that. I can't remember the computer element of it though. I used to spend hours simulating cup tournaments with this card game... http://www.oldfootballgames.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=123818 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby_Doo Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Cup Final was the one I remembered when I read the OP. You had to press a button on the back of the player to swing their leg - one player had a foot shaped for lobbing the ball and the other for low shots. I remember reading through the catalogues for Subbuteo stuff, with the fancy astroturf style pitches with heavy rubber backing, Adidas Tango balls and all that stuff. I guess the modern equivalent is the packs in FIFA. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seedsy Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Subbuteo and sensi. My childhood was wonderful 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtuocity Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 SWOS was a game changer. Gary Holt had insane pace. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbs Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 17 hours ago, Fankle said: My mate had that. I can't remember the computer element of it though. I used to spend hours simulating cup tournaments with this card game... http://www.oldfootballgames.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=123818 Different game altogether. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbs Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Had Google and found this article .. LINK which has a clip of some of the 'action'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fankle Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 ^^^ Cheers! It's coming back to me now... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraz65 Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 On 2/2/2020 at 6:21 AM, virtuocity said: SWOS was a game changer. Gary Holt had insane pace. It was surprisingly easy to score from the half way line if I remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonbon19 Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) I had a bagatelle game similar to this one bought for my Xmas circa 1966 with ball bearing replacements from Glenfield and Kennedy’s Edited March 9, 2020 by Bonbon19 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtuocity Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 11 hours ago, fraz65 said: It was surprisingly easy to score from the half way line if I remember. That was the original sensi game 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Repatriated Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 I think Holt was basically Bobby Connor renamed? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RAG Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 17 hours ago, virtuocity said: That was the original sensi game I know what you mean on the original games, but the original version of SWOS had to have an update disk released because of bugs - no mean feat before the internet. I just remember it crashing - although everything crashed on an Amiga 1200.. Thus any nostalgia is probably better served on the later 95 or 96 versions - if you ever end up playing it on an Amiga emulator. Sensible World of Soccer 1994 Amiga, DOS Features a title song "Goalscoringsuperstarhero" composed by Richard Joseph and Jon Hare. The original SWOS contained a few bugs, which led to complaints. A free update disk to rectify these bugs was released in April 1995 (DOS version converted by Wave Software). Sensible World of Soccer 95–96 1995 Amiga, DOS Improved version of SWOS. Chris Chapman, the lead programmer said that this was the version they originally wanted to create 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelesboots Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) I had Casdon Soccer - "Played by Bobby Charlton" Edited March 11, 2020 by Pelesboots 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbs Posted May 18, 2020 Report Share Posted May 18, 2020 Seems the Brian Clough's Football Fortunes game has been revamped and re-released... https://www.footballfortunes.co.uk/shop/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fankle Posted May 19, 2020 Report Share Posted May 19, 2020 21 hours ago, chubbs said: Seems the Brian Clough's Football Fortunes game has been revamped and re-released... https://www.footballfortunes.co.uk/shop/ Does it include a pandemic disaster scenario? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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