K-Tel Golf King

Bottoms Up

One of the many politically incorrect drinking board games of the 1960s and '70s, Bottoms Up was a game produced by Colt 45 malt liquor.

The object was to accumulate 30 credits, thereby completing one year of college. All while drinking Colt 45 "bottoms up" wherever you land on a space or take a card requiring you to. (I would be shocked if anyone actually finished a game.)

Some of the action cards that you were required to do:

Smoke two cigarettes simultaneously
Obey any wish or request of the player on your right
Put an article of your clothes on backwards
Do a Jack Benny imitation for 30 seconds
Explain to other players why you think that sex before marriage is a necessity.

Obviously, this game was from a very different time.

Ker-Plunk

Remember this game? Next to Jenga, it's my personal favourite skill game.

Congratulations Seattle Seahawks!

Wow. I'm still in shock...Did we really do it? 

All day long, I've been nursing a really bad hangover. And it still feels like a dream. Even though the evidence was all around me, I still could have used someone to pinch me. The Seattle Seahawks actually WON the Super Bowl?

And not only won, but gave the Denver Broncos the most devastating Super Bowl loss in decades. 

There was no questioning the score last night.

Thank you Seattle Seahawks for an AWESOME season!

The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Strange-and-Mysterious-History-of-the-Ouija-Board-229532101.html

REAL Handheld Gaming

 

 

Made and marketed by Tomy in the '70s and early '80s.

Loop-A-Lot Toy Commercial

Unquestionably the LAMEST toy ever invented.......

The Thompson Twins Vinyl Video Game

 The Thompson Twins were a 1980's pop group, best known for their hits "In The Name Of Love", "Lies", "Doctor Doctor" and "King For A Day"

(....and just for the record, none of them are twins and neither of them are named or surnamed Thompson....)

They were among a handful of '80s pop groups (including Journey, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and The Stranglers) that had their own video games. In the case of The Thompson Twins, their game came on a vinyl flexi-disc in Quicksilva magazine for the ZX Spectrum computer in the UK (and the Timex Sinclair ccomputer in the USA) Both were short lived home computers (as most were in the '80s.)

You had to play this record on your turntable and record it onto a cassette tape. Then play it on the external cassette drive of the computer (sold seperately) and wait for it to load up. Which took a good 10 minutes.

And when you were done, you had a playable game.

The graphics were horrible (but this was also 1984.) and it was pretty much a very lousy text-based video game. But in 1984, this was state of the art.

K-Tel Superstar Game

 In 1973, K-Tel International got into the board game business with this cool little offering.

Players are rock stars and collect gold records to win. Roll dice to spiral in the player counters from the start to end square on the board. Squares have events for players to collect or lose money or release an album, which may turn out to be a hit, a dud, or break-even. Game comes with a 45 RPM which must be played when any album is released. A random track determines the success of the album.

Granted, K-Tel never signed an actual exclusive recording contract with anyone, they licensed the music for their compilations from major record labels.    

This is the only known 45 RPM record K-Tel ever released.....

Mr. Mouth

Now here was a game that was fun for about 15 minutes. Tomy's Mr. Mouth.......

Nelsonic Pac-Man Watch (1982)

I once owned one of these in junior high. Didn't have the excitement of the original arcade game, but it kept me occupied on my breaks and in the doctor's office........