Trying to remember a retro board game....

Pigman II · 13-07-2008 12:37AM #1

This one is a bit vague. All I remember is that it was around in the early to mid 80's. It was an orange vertical board with blue pieces that may or may not have been magnetic, may or may not have metal cores to them, may or may not have been stackable objects and may or may not have involved the pieces falling to the bottom of the board in a donkey-kong-esque fashion.

Can't remember the name of the game or even the objective. Sorry I can't give more of a description but it's something that definetly existed and popped into my head just now.

Thanks in advance.

Ruu_Old · 13-07-2008 03:30AM

Kong Man by Tomy? Had some orange in it.

Pigman II · 13-07-2008 09:56AM

That's kind of the idea of it but I don't think that's the one. The board wasn't as cluttered as the one in KONGMAN and I definetly remember there being blue pieces in the game (rather than just metal balls).

javaboy · 13-07-2008 10:01AM

The colours aren't right but was it anything like Downfall?

Reku · 14-07-2008 08:48AM

Connect 4 (other than the vertical and pieces falling to the bottom the rest would be all wrong though- was blue with red and yellow pieces of plastic, no magnets/metal)

Pigman II · 14-07-2008 09:44AM

Nope it's not Downfall or Connect 4. I had both of them and whilst they are vertical games it must be remembered that they defo had classic blue boards - not orange.

This game I'm thinking of had an orange board and some blue pieces in it. Ruu is defo in the right area but that's not the game I'm thinking of either.

Any other ideas?

Ruu_Old · 14-07-2008 01:58PM

Only other one I can think of at this time of the morning is Screwball Scramble and I know that aint it.

jupiterjack · 12-03-2012 08:18PM

loved ludo myself..

kitakyushu · 13-03-2012 01:06AM

It's an old question but the answer is that the game was 'Up Against Time' (for anyone who might read this.)

http://boardgamegeek.com/image/173419/up-against-time

kelle · 13-03-2012 10:33PM

Well done to J-jack for bumping and helping to find an answer, however the OP has not logged onto Boards in nearly 3 years!

Trying to remember a retro board game....

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