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    Help with any of these would be much appreciated.

    1. A game about spies. May have been called spy ring or spy hunt. It included things like microfilm etc

    2.A game, I think set on an island. One thing I remember is plastic pieces of lava that went on the board, obviously from a volcano or something.

    3.Hard one because I don't think it's a mainstream game. I think it was made by a fantasy game company but it is not hero quest or anything like that. It involved moving nice painted figures around a board. You had to put square tiles on the board which mapped out your route. Sometimes you would draw a tile with had a bottomless pit!. The aim of the game was to get to the middle and take treasure from a dragon. Difficult I know but give it a go.

    4.Teenage hero turtles game with lots of cards. It wasn't the one where you had to flip discs.

    Cheers

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    N0.2 Fireball Island?
    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1768

    List of Teenage Turle games
    BoardGameGeek | Gaming Unplugged Since 2000

    Spy ring ? as you suggested
    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3640

    No. 3 It from the pit ?
    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11149
    Heather

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    • #3
      Re: a few board games to try and guess

      1. Yes, I do recall, 'Spy Ring' (I think) but there was also 'Microdot' where the print on the cards was supposedly so small, you needed a magnifying glass to read it!

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      • #4
        Re: a few board games to try and guess

        "Microdot", I think, rather than "Spy Ring"

        The second could be "The Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs"
        Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs | BoardGameGeek
        Lava pieces *and* a swooping Pterydactyl
        "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

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        • #5
          Re: a few board games to try and guess

          Originally posted by huggie74 View Post
          N0.2 Fireball Island?
          Fireball Island | BoardGameGeek

          List of Teenage Turle games
          BoardGameGeek | Gaming Unplugged Since 2000

          Spy ring ? as you suggested
          Spy Ring | BoardGameGeek

          No. 3 It from the pit ?
          It From The Pit | BoardGameGeek
          Thanks, found the turtles game and SPY RING is correct. Cheers

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          • #6
            Re: a few board games to try and guess

            Originally posted by Emettman View Post
            "Microdot", I think, rather than "Spy Ring"

            The second could be "The Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs"
            Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs | BoardGameGeek
            Lava pieces *and* a swooping Pterydactyl
            Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs...YES that's right. Cheers. I need to buy it off ebay now.

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            • #7
              Re: a few board games to try and guess

              Just number 3 we need to find now. It might be difficult because like I said it was probably made by one of these companies that are famous for fantasy based games.

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              • #8
                Re: a few board games to try and guess

                Originally posted by humanracer View Post
                Thanks, found the turtles game and SPY RING is correct. Cheers
                Was there a re-write or another game of the same name?
                My copy of Spy Ring has the radio aerials for hats, and large code cards to make "Fish" out of, but no microfilm...

                Ah:
                "The newer (1970's) version of the game changed in quite a few ways, but still bore a great resemblance to the original. The newer version was more of a race to collect a set of secrets (reading them using a "decoder"), and the contact man became a bodyguard for your spy."

                Boardgamegeek delivers again!
                Spy Ring | BoardGameGeek

                Being older, I have the pre-70's version!
                "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

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                • #9
                  Re: a few board games to try and guess

                  Which of the Turtle games was it?
                  Heather

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                  • #10
                    Re: a few board games to try and guess

                    Originally posted by huggie74 View Post
                    Which of the Turtle games was it?
                    Pizza Power Game, but I also remember "tower of doom" (a turtles version of Kerplunk).

                    I also remember "search for shredder", I didn't have it but I would play it with my classmates.

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                    • #11
                      Re: a few board games to try and guess

                      Yes I had that game Spy Ring, I sat in my bedroom opening my sack on christmas morning thinking why the hell would santa bring me such an obscure and difficult game, I think i was far too young at 8. did it also feature certain defunct airlines such as Pan Am too?
                      I always wanted "purple people eater" but i didnt get this. also got a game about hotels, anyone remember than one?
                      "Man who catch fly with chopsticks accomplish anything"

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                      • #12
                        Re: a few board games to try and guess

                        MB Hotel always looked like a boring version of Monopoly in my opinion never really appealed to me.
                        The Purple People Eater however looked fantastic,
                        https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/t...ple-eater.html
                        http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/hotel-game Hotel
                        Heather

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                        • #13
                          Re: a few board games to try and guess

                          Originally posted by huggie74 View Post
                          MB Hotel always looked like a boring version of Monopoly in my opinion never really appealed to me.
                          Ouch! I never liked Monopoly: it took too long and because of that acquired too many "house rules" that varied from family to family (causing rows when you played with friends outside your own family)
                          Yet it is inflicted upon generation upon generation, and now collectors too are exploited by myriad "special editions".

                          So many property games...
                          My top three:
                          Manhattan (OK, with Godzilla variant from time to time)
                          Ransom (as a portable travel card game, especially)
                          and top of all, Ravensberger's Metropolis
                          Metropolis | BoardGameGeek
                          Nice pieces, cooperation and competition, and good playing length.
                          (Big City and Chinatown came later but got a little more complex, a plus or minus according to your game-playing taste.)
                          "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

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                          • #14
                            Re: a few board games to try and guess

                            Originally posted by humanracer View Post
                            Help with any of these would be much appreciated.

                            ...........3.Hard one because I don't think it's a mainstream game. I think it was made by a fantasy game company but it is not hero quest or anything like that. It involved moving nice painted figures around a board. You had to put square tiles on the board which mapped out your route. Sometimes you would draw a tile with had a bottomless pit!. The aim of the game was to get to the middle and take treasure from a dragon. Difficult I know but give it a go........
                            Hi, this is definitely DUNGEONQUEST....which I have, and played only a few weeks ago







                            As you randomnly draw the tiles (like Scrabble) then no two games will ever be the same. Added tension is due to the fact that you must be in & out of the dungeon (with treasure ideally!) before the sun has set (sun counter moves on one space after all players have had their turn)

                            Dave
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                            • #15
                              Re: a few board games to try and guess

                              Originally posted by rossobantam View Post
                              Hi, this is definitely DUNGEONQUEST....which I have, and played only a few weeks ago







                              As you randomnly draw the tiles (like Scrabble) then no two games will ever be the same. Added tension is due to the fact that you must be in & out of the dungeon (with treasure ideally!) before the sun has set (sun counter moves on one space after all players have had their turn)

                              Dave
                              Wow..I never thought I would find that name of that game again. Amazing. You have made my day.


                              Cheers

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