Subbuteo Reviews

Subbuteo is best described as a table top version of a real football game aiming to simulate a football match in your living room with mainly plastic figures on a a 'pitch' which is a bit like a mat or sheet with the markings of a football pitch on it. Due to the size of the actual 'pitch' it was and is probably more likely to be found played on ...  Read the complete review

Subbuteo is a table football game were you have to flick the players to shoot, pass and tackle. If you flick a player and you hit an opponent without hitting the ball then it's a foul.Simple as that! My attention to detail was second to none, from the ironing of the pitch- The only time I got behind an ironing board as a kid! I had grandstands ...  Read the complete review

The world of football games has come a long way since this little number was king. Buy a game of subbeuteo and this is what you can expect: You get a green felt mat which has the football pitch markings on it. You get two teams of players, which are tiny plastic models on oval bases. You get some balls. The aim of the game is ...  Read the complete review

My brother got this for Christmas one year and I was always dragged into playing it with him despite the fact that I hated football and the game has to be one of the most boring things I have ever participated in! The game consists of a green mat made of material which represents the football pitch. There are two balls and then you have ...  Read the complete review

Subbuteo is the table top football alternative to bar football. For those that don't know, it is played on a large mat (which really needs to be nailed down onto wood chip) and miniature players which all stand on semi spherical bases. The game is played with a miniature football which you move around by flicking players, in order to 'kick' the ...  Read the complete review

Flick to Win 'Subbuteo' is a table top football simulation which was first made available in 1947. According to Wikipedia, it's named after Falco subbuteo - the latin name of the Eurasian Hobby which is a bird of prey. This was done as a trademark was not granted to to simply call the game 'Hobby' as creator Peter Adolph originally ...  Read the complete review

'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, ...  Read the complete review

Subbuteo was a game my brother owned when we were little and sometimes he would make me play with him so that he had some opposition that he could thrash, I was never into the game at all but I did like to play nurse whenever one of the players broke, or in his view got injured and I had to nurse them back to health with some glue. This happened a ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger I always wanted a Subbuteo set. I saw the big green boxes in the Co-op department store and saw the huge range of accessories and spare teams you could get. As I was always enthusiastic about football I really wanted a Subbuteo set so I could play friends and perhaps have a little league of our own. I am speaking of a ...  Read the complete review

The smell of the crowd ... the roar of the greasepaint ... the little men pinned in concrete ... a very 60s thing.... When you're very, very young, the attraction of Subbuteo Table Soccer is a very real and very consuming passion - that is until you've actually got one, and then it becomes a luxury that you're never really ...  Read the complete review

At the age of just 10 years old, acting alone and with full knowledge of what I was doing, I deliberately and cruelly executed a top football star, by means of decapitation. While his identity is today lost in the fog of half memories, the evil action itself is seared into my memory, Your Honour. I placed my foot across his neck ...  Read the complete review

As football mad kids we were not allowed out on rainy days to pursue our re-enaction of how Accrington Stanley beat the mighty Liverpool so we had to content ourselves with playing Shove Halfpenny Football on the kitchen table or indeed at school during the wet dinner times. There was always blow football but that was even less satisfactory. Then ...  Read the complete review

Subbuteo [Background: Young children, and occasionally grown men trying to recapture some of their lost youth, will often enthuse over the beatitudes of this 'classic' game that does all in its power to bring the game of football to your table top]. Firstly I'd like to begin by making an unreserved apology for the ...  Read the complete review

Subbuteo is a classic game for young men, and if you’ve got the space supplies hours of fun. A basic Subbuteo set up is quite large, with the pitch taking up an entire dining table in our house. The basic idea is to recreate football on a tabletop. The players are little blokes stuck on little ballad type things and the ball is a large ...  Read the complete review

This is a great game I love the mixture of excitement, fun and something that I just can’t put my finger on! It does however cost a fair bit from what I remember. If you are into collecting models and stuff you can get loads of different teams, flood lights and a few other fancy extras that are point less but look good. The game is supposed ...  Read the complete review

In a game where football always has been a passion, the longevity of a game like Subbuteo is of little surprise. For the few who don't know, you have eleven little plastic men, a pitch and your aim is to flick the oversized football into your opponents net as many times as you can! All very simple really, but who hasn't ...  Read the complete review

Earlier this year the manufacturers of Subbuteo decided that they were no longer going to make this classic game. The public outcry which greeted this news forced them into a rethink and now the future of table soccer is secure once more. And quite right too ! I think most of the people who urged the makers of this game to have a ...  Read the complete review

Subbutteo It's nice to know something never change. I was playing subbitteo when I was a youngster. It's still around, even in these days of FIFA 99. Maybe it's that 'real feel' or the pain in your finger after a hard tense match. It's really is crude though, you use your fingers to flick the player on to the ...  Read the complete review