Cool vid. Those games are slightly older than me. Unfortunately I never got to play many board games in the early 80's except Hero Quest. That's how I found your channel well before the re-release. Appreciate your continued content.
Thanks for checking out the video. I was born at the tail end of the 70s, so these all predate me, although I do remember later editions of Spy Ring from the 80s.
While you are an invaluable source of Quest news, I do appreciate these more niche and retro videos. "Tabletop themed geekery" is why I tune in here, and this video delivered. For my part these seem more 'interesting', than 'fun'. Great for a video or maybe a cheap curio on the shelf. Good that you mentioned the educational value in the numbers game.
Thanks. I'm glad some people enjoy them. They get really low views, but I do love making them so I plan to continue dropping them in when I have some interesting obscurities to talk about.
There was a similar game in the U.S. called Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur. Move cave men around towards the enter of the board. You can stack the cavemen to move multiple pieces. But at certain times the dinosaur shows up. You wind it up and release it. It moves, spins, and potentially knocks the cave men aside.
We had Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur in the UK too. There are lots of variations on this theme, using slightly different ways of knocking things over, like Dragon Strike where the dragon doesn’t move but swings it’s head around, the Hexbug games, and even very recently there was the Super Mario Piranha Escape Game.
I've had Waddington's CIA since my birthday in 1972, but haven't had the chance yet to puck up KGB to play the double game. Spy Ring sounds the same rule wise.. I've also still got my original Stop Thief, which blows the minds of young and old for different reasons lol. Yes. The old game looked like it would be great fun after 3 or 4 brandy's.
hmm... Big Bully is hilarious, and rather cute! Jumblex just gave me a headache! Shake Numbers sounds like a great way to introduce kids into simple math But you clearly saved the best for last, that spy game looks like its got a great designer behind it!
Spy Ring is pretty clever, and it looks lovely, but Big Bully gets my vote because it's such a funny game to play. The kids love it. Jumblex gave me a headache too. I can't imagine staring at those images for more than a minute.
@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring yeah! And with Jumblex how are you supposed to score this? No, Spy Ring was clearly the victor in this batch, though I'd argue Big Bully is a close second.
Spy Ring didn't have a tin bull, clearly a second place game! Jumblex has 20 items mixed into the image, and the winner is the person who identifies the most in a fixed time limit. HPG did a lot of these parlour games, and they are all of a similar nature. I don't rate any of them.
I picked up Big Bully for 50p at a car boot sale last year - the instructions are really vague as to what to actually do with the bull, so I thought you just push it in a straight line at a matador (which make for a ridiculously rubbish game). Seeing your video now, it's obvious the bull spins! I never knew it did that! Must check out my copy again. Thanks!
When I got the game, the bull's wheels had started to seize up. As a result, when you rolled it on the table and let it go, it just travelled in a straight line. Carefully applying lubricant into the wheel axles and gradually working it in freed up the movement of the wheels, and the bull started to spin around. The same may be the case with your copy.
Good stuff. Big Bully looks fun.
It's hardly even a game, but there is a certain childish glee in watching the bull spin around all over the place and barrel into the bullfighters.
That Spy Ring game sounds fun.
It's pretty neat.
Cool vid. Those games are slightly older than me. Unfortunately I never got to play many board games in the early 80's except Hero Quest. That's how I found your channel well before the re-release. Appreciate your continued content.
Thanks for checking out the video. I was born at the tail end of the 70s, so these all predate me, although I do remember later editions of Spy Ring from the 80s.
Big Bully!
Best game ever! lol
One of the few board games no one minds losing because it's chaotic craziness!
You can't be mad at Big Bully. It's so silly, and there's nothing you can do about winning or losing.
Big bully is so simple but yet looks like lot of fun
The kids love it. It doesn't outstay its welcome either.
Your wife is an absolute legend ❤❤❤
That's what she always tells me.
While you are an invaluable source of Quest news, I do appreciate these more niche and retro videos. "Tabletop themed geekery" is why I tune in here, and this video delivered.
For my part these seem more 'interesting', than 'fun'. Great for a video or maybe a cheap curio on the shelf. Good that you mentioned the educational value in the numbers game.
Thanks. I'm glad some people enjoy them. They get really low views, but I do love making them so I plan to continue dropping them in when I have some interesting obscurities to talk about.
There was a similar game in the U.S. called Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur. Move cave men around towards the enter of the board. You can stack the cavemen to move multiple pieces. But at certain times the dinosaur shows up. You wind it up and release it. It moves, spins, and potentially knocks the cave men aside.
We had Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur in the UK too. There are lots of variations on this theme, using slightly different ways of knocking things over, like Dragon Strike where the dragon doesn’t move but swings it’s head around, the Hexbug games, and even very recently there was the Super Mario Piranha Escape Game.
I've had Waddington's CIA since my birthday in 1972, but haven't had the chance yet to puck up KGB to play the double game. Spy Ring sounds the same rule wise.. I've also still got my original Stop Thief, which blows the minds of young and old for different reasons lol. Yes. The old game looked like it would be great fun after 3 or 4 brandy's.
I'm assuming that after enough brandy the images all come into perfect focus and you can instantly identify all 20 items.
hmm... Big Bully is hilarious, and rather cute!
Jumblex just gave me a headache!
Shake Numbers sounds like a great way to introduce kids into simple math
But you clearly saved the best for last, that spy game looks like its got a great designer behind it!
Spy Ring is pretty clever, and it looks lovely, but Big Bully gets my vote because it's such a funny game to play. The kids love it. Jumblex gave me a headache too. I can't imagine staring at those images for more than a minute.
@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring yeah! And with Jumblex how are you supposed to score this?
No, Spy Ring was clearly the victor in this batch, though I'd argue Big Bully is a close second.
Spy Ring didn't have a tin bull, clearly a second place game! Jumblex has 20 items mixed into the image, and the winner is the person who identifies the most in a fixed time limit. HPG did a lot of these parlour games, and they are all of a similar nature. I don't rate any of them.
I picked up Big Bully for 50p at a car boot sale last year - the instructions are really vague as to what to actually do with the bull, so I thought you just push it in a straight line at a matador (which make for a ridiculously rubbish game). Seeing your video now, it's obvious the bull spins! I never knew it did that! Must check out my copy again. Thanks!
When I got the game, the bull's wheels had started to seize up. As a result, when you rolled it on the table and let it go, it just travelled in a straight line. Carefully applying lubricant into the wheel axles and gradually working it in freed up the movement of the wheels, and the bull started to spin around. The same may be the case with your copy.
Spy Ring game came out in 1965
Yes the original edition was 1965. The copy in the video is "New Spy Ring" published in 1978.
Sorry but what game do you mean is simular to Big Bully? Thanks!
I said Big Bully has some (very loose) similarities to Bugacula, which is from the Hexbug range of games.