STAR FOOTBALL - GAME FROM THE 60s

[rd]

Attention any old fossil footy fans like me out there who grew up during the 60s.

As a child, my favourite game was not Mouse Trap Game or Twister - but STAR FOOTBALL !!

A game for 2 players - came with a board on which 15 positions were marked out on an oval. Players rolled a dice and depending on what was rolled, the ball then moved closer towards your goal or you lost posession so then your opponent had a turn. You were either ODD or EVEN numbers for a quarter - and swapped number types at each interval.

Included with the game was a cardboard scoreboard complete with 22 team names comprising 10 SANFL & 12 VFL teams and a whole heap of numbers to slot in the goals and points sections of the scoreboard.

My parents recently discovered remnants of this game - 20 years after I assumed that the game had been thrown out after us kids had married and moved out of home. Sadly the game box and the all important rules are missing - all that remains are the game board and a very mangled scoreboard, team names and numbers set. Also there are home made WAFL & VFA team names made up - as a kid I must have been a visionary and had gone national long before the big boys did!

Anyway - does anyone know of this game - remember playing it - or still have the game?

Love a copy of the official rules as I don't trust my memory - having not rolled the dice of the game for over 30 years!!!

[Pseudo]

Never heard of that one, sorry.

One of my schoolfriends (late 70s) had an Aussie Rules game which consisted of a big cardboard play mat, with an oval marked out on it, and players wearing red or blue guernseys drawn in at the various positions (full forward, forward pockets, etc). The footy was a tiddlywink and you had to manoeuvre it towards your goal by flicking it with another tiddlywink. When the footy landed on a player of your colour then you had posession, meaning it was your turn to flick the ball. I don't remember what happened when the ball was in dispute (not touching any players), nor how the ruck contests were simulated.

Anyone remember any other Aussie Rules games from the good ol' days?

[Pseudo]

meaning it was your turn to **** the ball.

Bwaaaahahahahahaaaa! Methinks the swear filter is a little over-zealous!

That word was f-l-i-c-k.

[GWW]

Never heard of that one, sorry.

One of my schoolfriends (late 70s) had an Aussie Rules game which consisted of a big cardboard play mat, with an oval marked out on it, and players wearing red or blue guernseys drawn in at the various positions (full forward, forward pockets, etc). The footy was a tiddlywink and you had to manoeuvre it towards your goal by flicking it with another tiddlywink. When the footy landed on a player of your colour then you had posession, meaning it was your turn to **** the ball. I don't remember what happened when the ball was in dispute (not touching any players), nor how the ruck contests were simulated.

Anyone remember any other Aussie Rules games from the good ol' days?

Yeah i think i remember the one you're referring to Pseudo. There was a similar type of cricket game as well called "Test Match".

[McAlmanac]

There was a similar type of cricket game as well called "Test Match".

Classic.

[Strawb]

i have both fight for the flag and an 1991 AFl board game where you roll the dice and move the football to positions it takes and while and you need to set down the times of the quarters.

[Rushby Hinds]

Never heard of that one, sorry.

One of my schoolfriends (late 70s) had an Aussie Rules game which consisted of a big cardboard play mat, with an oval marked out on it, and players wearing red or blue guernseys drawn in at the various positions (full forward, forward pockets, etc). The footy was a tiddlywink and you had to manoeuvre it towards your goal by flicking it with another tiddlywink. When the footy landed on a player of your colour then you had posession, meaning it was your turn to **** the ball. I don't remember what happened when the ball was in dispute (not touching any players), nor how the ruck contests were simulated.

Anyone remember any other Aussie Rules games from the good ol' days?

Maybe that's where Neal Craig got his game plan from....

[Leaping Lindner]

Never heard of that one, sorry.

One of my schoolfriends (late 70s) had an Aussie Rules game which consisted of a big cardboard play mat, with an oval marked out on it, and players wearing red or blue guernseys drawn in at the various positions (full forward, forward pockets, etc). The footy was a tiddlywink and you had to manoeuvre it towards your goal by flicking it with another tiddlywink. When the footy landed on a player of your colour then you had posession, meaning it was your turn to **** the ball. I don't remember what happened when the ball was in dispute (not touching any players), nor how the ruck contests were simulated.

Anyone remember any other Aussie Rules games from the good ol' days?

Maybe that's where Neal Craig got his game plan from....

That would be the same game plan that beat the Bulldogs TWICE last season

[Felch]

I reckon the Star Football game was re-released in the 80's as 'Up There Cazaly', i remember having it as a kid. Not sure where it would be now though ?
'Test Match' was an absolute cracker of a game. I remember playing many times against my brother as kids. We would play full test matches, as well as one dayers, complete with full scorecards and the works. Great fun.

[Wedgie]

There was one in the very late 70s, I remember we ran into Greg Turbill who was doing a promotion for it in Myers, it sounds very similar to the one you describe RD.
I played him at the game and beat him and won my own copy of the game for my trouble.
I reckon the one I'm thinking about may have been called Footy Fever or something like that.

[bayman]

i remember the 'flick' version it also had its own goal posts (white), pseudo the ball when not landing on a player went to the team colors showing the 'ball' was red on one side & blue on the other side so if the ball landed on the 'grass' & blue came up the blue player got the next kick (flick) i always thought it was called 'aussie footy'

[Macca19]

I had a game similar to the tiddlywink game but it was played on the floor. You had two long pieces of rubber tube which marked the boundary line which you connected to a plastic base where you put the goal posts in.

The ball was a small oval plastic thing which said something similar to 'marked by teammate' and 'turnover to opposition'. You played with this plastic type spring thing which you held down, let go and the ball would fly off in the direction of your goal. Obviously involved some skill in getting it in tight from the boundary.

The scoreboard had little cardboard pieces saying the 14 VFL teams at the time (had WC and Bris) but the actual scoreboard from memory was part of the game box, so you stood the game box on the side and you had your scoreboard, with a roller type thing for marking scores (similar to Adelaide Oval I guess)

We had some great battles, including scrapping the boundary line, putting the goal posts at either end of the lounge room and having first goal wins...some which took over an hour to complete.

Have no idea what happened to it. The game just seemed to disappear and all I had left was the ball marker. Might still be in the back of a cupboard somewhere at my parents place but it most likely got thrown out for some reason. Would love to know the name of it.