Stellaboz Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 3 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: I had FIFA 98. Like any cool cat of course. My favourite memory was taking the Netherlands Antilles to World Cup glory on World class mode. Quite why no game has since put in every single international team I don't know. Limitless fun qualifying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Great game. Used to love playing Subbuteo under those fantastic floodlights. And if you put the stand from your Scalextric at the half way touchline you had an instant Shire's park. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 20 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: Like any cool cat of course. My favourite memory was taking the Netherlands Antilles to World Cup glory on World class mode. Quite why no game has since put in every single international team I don't know. Limitless fun qualifying. I'm sure the World Cup 2006 game did as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 10 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: Like any cool cat of course. My favourite memory was taking the Netherlands Antilles to World Cup glory on World class mode. Quite why no game has since put in every single international team I don't know. Limitless fun qualifying. Vanuatu for me. We were the World Cup's Greece 2004 - rearguard actions and 1-0 wins all over the shop. Brazil must have been livid. I remember the way Motson (I think) pronounced Vanuatu sounded so downbeat, like he was thinking, "Jesus, why am I watching this shite". Realistic football computer games likely killed Subbuteo - indeed, computer games in general will have caused the decline in popularity of all board games. Very impressed with anyone who has the patience & talent to do a good job of miniature painting, as it's not something I could ever do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 23 minutes ago, Dan Steele said: Great game. Used to love playing Subbuteo under those fantastic floodlights. And if you put the stand from your Scalextric at the half way touchline you had an instant Shire's park. And if you got your Scalextric track going round the outside of the pitch and a few jakeballs hanging around, you had Central Park, Cowdenbeath. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Boghead ranter said: Yup, me too. Painted my teams as Poland and Holland. Dumbarton strips were just too complicated for my lack of artistic talent. I went for Dundee and Hibs - should've gone for Liverpool and Leeds. I remember my old man got pretty pissed off that I'd f****d up the painting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMoore Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Far too young for Subbuteo but the way people older had spoke about it I had way higher expectations from what it actually was. Closest we had was the figures you'd get alongside some advent calendar tasting chocolate. Used to be perfect stocking fillers or if it was a mates birthday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 50 minutes ago, RuMoore said: Far too young for Subbuteo but the way people older had spoke about it I had way higher expectations from what it actually was. Closest we had was the figures you'd get alongside some advent calendar tasting chocolate. Used to be perfect stocking fillers or if it was a mates birthday. ^Football crazy, chocolate mad, grab a power pod and play football with the lads thread for this pish imo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Diego De la Vega Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) There was a tv programme in the 80s based around subbuteo called Playing for Real, I think, can't remember what it was about other than the main team was Real Falkirk. 80s tv was shite, basically a forerunner for BBC Scotland channel Those subbuteo figures on the other hand are great Edited October 24, 2023 by Don Diego De la Vega 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Real nerds painted these wee fellas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar_Army Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 The tee shirt I wear for Scotland matches. Takes me back to when I was a wee nipper. Loved the game, had the floodlights, camera stand and the player for taking corners. Young Lochee Fleet won the world cup once. Unfortunately matches were frequently abandoned until glue or blu-tack could be found to mend a broken leg or replace a missing head. And before some smart@rse points it out. Yes I know it needs a good ironing, I took it out the clean laundry basket for this pic! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 5 hours ago, Don Diego De la Vega said: There was a tv programme in the 80s based around subbuteo called Playing for Real, I think, can't remember what it was about other than the main team was Real Falkirk. 80s tv was shite, basically a forerunner for BBC Scotland channel Those subbuteo figures on the other hand are great I remember that - don't think it ever got repeated or released on any video formats. I like how the IMDb have very obvious used a picture from a different show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397004/ Looks like it's on YouTube, if anyone's interested: https://friendsofoldsubbuteo.uk/extra-time/playing-for-real/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 19 minutes ago, BFTD said: I remember that - don't think it ever got repeated or released on any video formats. I like how the IMDb have very obvious used a picture from a different show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397004/ Looks like it's on YouTube, if anyone's interested: https://friendsofoldsubbuteo.uk/extra-time/playing-for-real/ Was a big fan of that show too. Am I right in saying there was controversy about using Mr Sheen to make the players slide quicker/easier? Absolutely loved Subbuteo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 12 hours ago, BFTD said: I remember that - don't think it ever got repeated or released on any video formats. I like how the IMDb have very obvious used a picture from a different show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397004/ Looks like it's on YouTube, if anyone's interested: https://friendsofoldsubbuteo.uk/extra-time/playing-for-real/ I remember mentioning that programme before, on a Falkirk thread, but nobody seemed aware of it. A click on the link suggests it was just as bad a show as I recalled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 On 23/10/2023 at 21:26, Newbornbairn said: Subbuteo was for Nigels. I had Striker. Super Striker for Christmas 1976. Subbuteo Floodlight Edition for Christmas 1977. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molotov Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Just now, Monkey Tennis said: Super Striker for Christmas 1976. Subbuteo Floodlight Edition for Christmas 1977. Yeah I remember Super Striker - magic! I think the difference was that diving goalies were in the “super” edition which passed Alan Rough by obviously! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Before all of the others there was 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Molotov said: Yeah I remember Super Striker - magic! I think the difference was that diving goalies were in the “super” edition which passed Alan Rough by obviously! Yip, that was the difference. Mine had a moulded surrounding wall as well, whereas I think earlier ones had a wall you clipped on. Subbuteo's appeal had a lot to do with accessories. I had throw in takers, corner takers, tv cameras, photographers, a surrounding fence with advertising boards and eventually an astropitch. I also had "World Cup goals" which were rubbish - one red net; one blue. My collection of teams had no logic attached: Peru, Leeds, Brazil, Man City, Celtic, Wales, Juventus, Dundee United, Patrick Thistle, Dundee, Inter Milan, England, Hibs... For some reason I never had Queens or Scotland. The game earned me my Hobbies Badge at Cubs. Edited October 25, 2023 by Monkey Tennis 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 16 hours ago, Ziggy Sobotka said: Real nerds painted these wee fellas. I still do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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