Subbuteo

[Le Chef]

For those that are old enough to remember this and play it, does anyone know of UK high street shops that still sell it ?

E-bay has a few, but they are quite expensive for stadiums, floodlights etc.


it brings it all back.................. (including sitting there and trying to repair the goalkeepers and players you had stood on with superglue.)

For those who are young enough to think whats this geezer on about, this is what a few us got upto before SKY, PC's, and consoles kept us busy.(Along with Scalextric and Lego.

[meffin]

Toys R Us do but im not sure how much they charge

[Le Chef]

Toys R Us do but im not sure how much they charge

Tried them, but they say they no longer stock it

[MrMichael]

Subbuteo

You could take your chances with a random site like http://www.subbuteo-emporium.co.uk/p...roducts_id=350

[Fivex]

Car boot sales are probably a good bet

Although not sure how many will be about at this time of year since it's ****ing baltic :****ingbalticsmiley:

[GypsyRed]

Its still being made so should be a problem:

http://www.hasbro.co.uk/Subbuteo/English/home.asp

[Laddsy]

I absolutely loved subbuteo as a kid and I remember holding street tournaments in the garage ha ha

I bought another set a couple of years ago, but it got lost when we moved house

[Le Chef]

Its still being made so should be a problem:

http://www.hasbro.co.uk/Subbuteo/English/home.asp

Thats what I thought but I get a funny feeling its not. I can find no major high street retailers that stock it.
You click those links and apart from a crappy response from Amazon all the others don't work.

It looks like I'll have to go on-line

[Darth Marty]

wow, what a cool game that was, had pretty much clean forgotten about that, I always remember my pitch was slightly too big for my table and as such the boys always whinged when it was my "home" match! ha, how things change.

[BFG]

I was **** at it. Think my dad hid it in the end because he was so fed up of superglueing my players back together.

[Helios Creed]

There was a variant called Targetman made by Subbuteo for a couple of years - it was a 5 a side game where you pulled the leg back to kick the ball. It was much more action packed than Subbuteo or the more popular Striker - you could actually chip the ball, blast it, place it etc and it had walls round the pitch that you could play the ball off.

It was my favourite game and a few years ago, thanks to someone on this site, I was reunited with it, when I thought I'd lost it.

[Warren]

POINTLESS PUB QUIZ FACT - Subbuteo is named after the latin name for the Eurasian hobby - Falco subbuteo after a trademark was not granted to call the game Hobby

Yes I am a bit bored at lunchtime!!

[zimbo]

There was a variant called Targetman made by Subbuteo for a couple of years - it was a 5 a side game where you pulled the leg back to kick the ball. It was much more action packed than Subbuteo or the more popular Striker - you could actually chip the ball, blast it, place it etc and it had walls round the pitch that you could play the ball off.

It was my favourite game and a few years ago, thanks to someone on this site, I was reunited with it, when I thought I'd lost it.

A story to warm even the coldest heart. Although I never knew our Cilla was a member here.

Subbuteo annoyed me. Every time I tried to play it the pitch was just covered in creases, so the ball would never run true and veered off on ridiculous tangents, usually on the rare occasions that I was putting together an attack. It was a haven for cheats and unscrupulous child fascists, with their illegal player nudges and cynical power-flicks and 'accidental' (and literal) moving of the goalposts whenever I actually managed to get a shot in. It also served to popularise the 2-1-4 formation (the other three players having been lost forever underneath the sideboard), so beloved in scholoyards up and down the country.

It was Striker all the way for me, with its positional rigidity and its diving goalies. Although I also had a soft spot for Table Soccer, which was like a cross between tiddlywinks and a really bad headache. I have no memory of Targetman though. It all sounds a bit too fancy for my liking.

[Helios Creed]

A story to warm even the coldest heart. Although I never knew our Cilla was a member here.

Subbuteo annoyed me. Every time I tried to play it the pitch was just covered in creases, so the ball would never run true and veered off on ridiculous tangents, usually on the rare occasions that I was putting together an attack. It was a haven for cheats and unscrupulous child fascists, with their illegal player nudges and cynical power-flicks and 'accidental' (and literal) moving of the goalposts whenever I actually managed to get a shot in. It also served to popularise the 2-1-4 formation (the other three players having been lost forever underneath the sideboard), so beloved in scholoyards up and down the country.

It was Striker all the way for me, with its positional rigidity and its diving goalies. Although I also had a soft spot for Table Soccer, which was like a cross between tiddlywinks and a really bad headache. I have no memory of Targetman though. It all sounds a bit too fancy for my liking.

why Targetman was better than Striker - you kept possesion if your pass ended up closer to one of your players than the opponents (Striker was zonal wasn't it?) - you then moved your player to the ball and the players could kick with either foot or even backheel - and they looked better (note the slightly bent stand caused by "bending" the ball into the top corner: