did you ever play the tabletop game TEST MATCH and did you like it

i voted 'yes and i liked it'

I voted 'no' - but I'd like to!

Roberto Spiralli I thought you were American.

no i am english but i live in america because my wife makes me

Blimey, I vaguely remember this, and I think so.

It wasn't mine though. Maybe one time.

i was privileged enough to own this, but i know for some kids it was the kind of thing that you only got to see on the last day of school when everyone brought toys in, like mouse trap and panthor were for me

this should be in I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX [via cricket related content]

i thought about that but tbh i am not 100% comfortable with the modding situation on that board right now.

feel that these poll options do not adequately reflect my personal situation tbh

anybody who talks smack about MOUSE TRAP is looking for trouble btw, u r forewarned

also i have never seen this game

yes and I liked it and it was better than
http://byemylife.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/proactionfootball.jpg

i had this for school games day, it ws basically the greatest thing ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPH9-Q_LP_k

http://www.tradgames.org.uk/images/blow-football-spears-320.jpg

when did all of this footy shit migrate from darragh's thread onto mine? i didn't agree to this.

that isd a very fair point i remove myself and my game from yr thread with a tip of the cap

in early editions of blow football the ball was actually made of cocaine

http://www.compendia.co.uk/acatalog/owzat_dice_large.jpg

this shit was better than test match tbh. this shit was better than actual cricket. if you like rolling dice and writing down numbers track this down immediately.

subbuteo 4 lyfe

I used to play Tomy Supercup Football by myself :(

I played Test Match, it was rubbish.

i wasn't prepared for the emotional impact of negative comments. i shouldn't have started this thread.

I had something that was like Pro Action football, but was crapper - only three players per side including goalies, velcro that didn't stitch to the pitch, etc.. I knew someone who was really into cricket, and who had Test Match, but never played it, because a) it was a bastard to set up, b) the bowling action as p-unrealistic, and c) the tiny cricket balls always rolled under sofas/etc., resulting in the match being stopped for several minutes while the "umpire" swiped at the shag pile under the sofa to retrieve the ball.

also d) people only ever seemed to want to play it during summer, when really the much better alternative was to play real cricket outside.

There were two versions of the batsman in Test Match - I had the one where you pulled the bat back on a string and released the string to take the shot, but my friend had a batsman where the bat was on a sliding piece of plastic and you pushed it forward to make the shot. The latter worked better but the former was more about timing and being hardcore. TBF neither version was a patch on the John Lever dice game I had which I played to death for months and months, rolling dice and filling in score cards.

piece of string version is news to me. my version had the the batsman and the bat controlled by two bits of plastic, so you could bomb up the wicket with your right hand and whack the ball off the table with your left hand. or at least that's how i remember it, which would mean i had some goddamn left-handed version. damn my parents.

what is the john lever dice game? different to owzthat?

It's marginally different to owzthat, by the looks. The John Lever game was like a gatefold LP, and on the inside right page there was a picture of a pitch and two rotating cardboard discs, one for the bowler and one for the batsman. A two dice roll moved the bowler or batsman round to one of 11 different lines, and then 1 dice chose a spot on that line and in the bowler's case it was a legit ball or a wide etc,, then the batsman did the same and you could score runs or a dot or get caught.

An amped up version of owzthat, really, but it was fantastic.

Mind you, I also spent a lot of time running Totopoly horse races and keeping league tables for the horses so my opinion mayn't be universal.

The string batsman version of Test Match preceded the plastic slider btw. I assume they changed it cos the string version made it near impossible to hit the ball.

xp That sounds awesome, would have destroyed many hours of my childhood if I'd known about it.

Voted "played it, liked it".

Our version of Test Match didn't have a bouncing ball either - it was a fucking ball bearing ("steely" in 70s Midlands marble slang")

http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic163740_md.jpg

Dunno if that image will take but that's the old-school "string" batsman by the looks of it.

I always played the ball bearing version, but plastic batsmen.

this would have completed me

damn right i had this, it was awesome.

i got it at xmas 81 and i think i got another one some years later as it got damaged when we moved house.

I had that football game darraghmac posted a youtube clip of too. (and mousetrap)

Ugh we had this game. It always felt so lame to me, rolling a ball down a chute and hitting it with a plastic batsman. Also the felt "green" was always crumpled so the ball would end up in stupid places it wasnt batted to.

Now I wish I still had other old shit from the 80s like Merlin and my old game & watch "Parachute" game... I still haeve a working Speak & Spell tho.

I still haeve a working Speak & Spell

^^^ sentence explains itself

Now spell 'humor'...

Or that word that I could never work out what the hell it was because S&S pronounced it "fzthp".

LOL oh dear.

(sorry for the second de-rail of this thread!)

Yeah we always had trouble with it due to the damn american spellings.

xpost thats my fault! carry on, cricketers.

There needs to be a special TXTers S&S...

Think we still have a functional Speak and Spell in my daughter's room somewhere.

She can spell "have" btw so I can't blame the machine.

I wish i still had this game. Always wished i had hungry hippos as i loved playing that at friends houses.

pretty sure i made my younger brother an english language wunderkind through a mixture of speak n spell and terror/violence, really should have gone into teaching

gah i never had this, and always wanted it. so much, that i think i ended up constructing my own version.

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Think we still have a functional Speak and Spell in my daughter's room somewhere.

She can spell "have" btw so I can't blame the machine.

;_;

I'm just a shitty typist.

I had the ball-bearing version but as someone born in 1985, this shit didn't impress me against the backdrop of the Cricket video games that the mid-90s offered.

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