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Toys and Games you used to have. Page 15

1969............. Yellow Submarine14/1 (penny? seems an odd price) = 14 shillings and a penny = c. 70p, and now sells for around £30

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I remember playing Tetris. Liked it so much.

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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 22nd November 2022, 9:44 AM

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Have you still got your Dinky Herc?

Quote: Chappers @ 22nd November 2022, 3:05 PM

Have you still got your Dinky Herc?

As you are talking singularly, I presume you are referring to my willy, and yes, I do still have it.

As for my Dinky cars - when I was about 14 and was showing interest in those "other" teenagers who didn't have willies, I dug a hole in my parents' back garden, put the Dinkys in and set fire to them. Then buried them. About 10 years ago I went back there with a metal detector but could not find them, sadly.

But since then, I have bought all the ones I remember from eBay and toy fairs, which now take pride of place in my display cabinet. ?

1968............ Have you still got your sticker album? Did your Mum buy Brooke Bond tea? ?

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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 25th November 2022, 9:27 AM

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Inchman? That's a bit personal isn't it?

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Three of my favourite games of my youth:

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If I only saw those three pictures, and someone said "Who posted them", I would say there could only be one person - the Fat Owl. ?

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Subbuteo. Football of course...

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...and cricket:

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The first subbuteo football that I played had 2D card players that slotted into a plastic base rather than the moulded plastic players that we came to know and love:

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Quote: Billy Bunter @ 27th November 2022, 10:06 PM

Subbuteo. Football of course...

The first subbuteo football that I played had 2D card players that slotted into a plastic base rather than the moulded plastic players that we came to know and love:

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I don't remember them being card, more like a celluloid type figure in a plastic base - the one thing I don't have now in my collection, and didn't there used to be a Rugby Subbuteo?
And how the hell did you play the Cricket one. The football one was bad enough with its felt (?) pitch full of folds.

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