h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Very nice. I'm trying to think if there is anything else to add, but I think you got all the essentials in. It certainly was a cool game though, wasn't it?

I suppose I could tell you which sets I found recently when rummaging in my mum and dad's attic!!!
My favourites have to be the World Cup '78 pack and the British Soccer Stars set of 1977!

They don't make games like they used to, eh?

Another curious look into the behaviour of British children at play....

My favourites were the NASA futuristic air- and spacecraft and trucks 'n' lorries sets. I still can't say 'Mack' or 'Kenworth' without grinning like an idiot.

It kinda shows that the Magic: the Gathering and Pokémon card games aren't a thoroughly novel phenomenon...

Has anyone ever tried the 'crazy' version of 'Trumps? Where 2 or more packs are mixed together for extra hilarity value? And you find yourself trying to bluff how many cylinders Bryan Robson's got, or how many career test wickets the NASA RingWing superloader took. Or someone with a really tall central defender thinking he's got the round won, saying 'height: 6'6"' only for someone else to say '54 metres'. Smashing.

Hi Mickey Thomas' Right Foot,

We really loved this entry - you've chosen an excellent topic. However, we can't help feeling that there is more to say on the topic of Top Trumps, so we'd like to move this one over to the Writing Workshop so that others can contribute and make this a really comprehensive entry. See you there

Cool! How do I get there?

We're there already - as if by magic Hopefully you should get some comments soon...

Maybe a good start, to move away from a potentially overly-nostalgic tone, might be to draw attention to the whole craze of Pokémon and Magic: the Gathering trading card games that are very much in vogue at the moment, and how their precursor (ie Trumps) had much the same hold on previous generations of kids.

I'm kinda interested in taking up the backwork on this entry and getting it back into the Edited Guide (probably via Collaborative). Any objections?

B

Master B - you still have first refusal on this, but if you don't want it I'm going to pick it up!

Cheers,
Number Six

*wakes up*

Eh? What? I don't remember saying I wanted this.

Erm...I'm still quite interested, but I don't have the time at the minute. You can have it, as long as I can have a sneaky preview before it goes back into PR.

B