Talk:Subbuteo

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How about a bit more about the playing aspect of the game?

[edit] Re: playing aspect

Well, we now have a basic outline of how the football version is played, hopefully someone can follow suit with the Rugby and cricket. Having said that however, from what I hear the Rugby version's rules were convoluted and didn't function that well, so summarizing them concisely might not be easy.

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Are these Gorillaz' fictional characters quotes of any interset, since there are just fictional characters ? Lvr 17:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] There was another game, in this vein, that I can't seem to find.

I used to own it, and it was controlled by little dudes with magnets, and when you pressed down on them, they'd bop the ball off. It was very similar to Subbuteo, but not quite as fiddly.

Pro Action Football, perhaps? I had that in the mid-'90s. Good little game, but a bit too quick and random compared with Subbuteo (the ball used to just end up pinging around the table in the games i played). I liked the goalies that caught the ball, dribbling was decent (if a bit too easy), the pitches were quite good - comparable to Subbuteo astroturf - and I remember using the (much-sturdier) goals to replace my broken Subbuteo ones. Not sure how applicable it is to the main article (since there were plenty of other games around that served as competition, after all), but there's some info on it here, and it could maybe get its own article, since it was pretty popular. Seb Patrick 07:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that's actually the exact one I was looking for. Thanks!