All that flicking hurts your fingers! (Subbuteo)

Member Name: Beanie8844

Product:	Subbuteo
Date:	24/09/08 (53 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good fun

Disadvantages: not played much today

'Subbuteo' is a board game which simulates the game of football (actually there were many sports versions, but football was the only one which really took off). The first Subbuteo sets were available for purchase in 1947. The first sets consisted of wire goals with paper nets, playing figures made from cardboard with button bases and a small ball, no pitch was provided during the early years, instead instructions told people how to mark out a pitch onto a blanket.

As the game evolved so to did the amount of items people could buy to make their pitch look like a real stadium, for example stands, spectators, stewards, policemen, balls and goals, trophies and even special figures for free-kicks and throw ins.

I owned my own Subbuteo set when I was a boy and bought a fair bit of equipment to add to the look of the pitch and surrounding stadium, I used to play with my cousin who would bring over the equipment that he had bought to so we add a really nice playing arena, it was great fun. Unfortunately, I don't think it as popular today as it used to be due to the increasing popularity of computer consoles and computer games, as shame really.

Thanks for reading.

Summary: past it's sell by date really