In the early 70’s before television became so unbelievably rubbish, board games were an extremely popular form of family entertainment. Ker Plunk and Buck-a-roo were the Ant and Dec of the day.
More fascinating are the ones that didn’t quite make it, the Terry Christian/Vernon Kay/Mickey from Magpie board games:
Mouse Feltch. – No one really knows what a feltch is and this game was an attempt to explain. It was like the original Mousetrap but with straws.
Ladders and Ladders – This amusement was over very quickly so wasn’t much fun. Snakes and Snakes didn’t fare much better for being impossible to finish.
Open the box – After the success of the surgery-based game ‘Operation’; ‘Open the Box’ was targeted at budding gynaecologists.
Hungry Gippos - Players have to support their incredibly large and ever-increasing brood of colourful tykes by gathering lucky heather and clothes pegs before PC Plod investigates their tarmac business.
Pat-a-Hake - like Pat-a- Cake but with fish.
Tiddlywanks – this was a game against the clock involving a twelve-inch ejaculating clockwork dwarf. Tiddlywanks has been voted the worst concept for a game ever but is never the less a collectors item.
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