Our month away in Germany is up. Es ist vorbei. On our way home, a few more reflections about games here in our friend's home. Interest...

 Backpacking isn't conducive to toy collecting unless it's tiny stuff. I did manage to shove a gorgeous 1960's Pippi Longstockin...

I love the box art on this Estrela made board game, o raio Laser, which I guess means Laser Beam. The game itself looks pretty basic but th...

Hello Moonbasers, my pal Arnum is always mooching around Auction Halls and he's picked up some bargains over the years.. A case in point...

Another game new to me is this Black Hole Invaders. I like the box art but they missed a trick with simple tiddlywink playing parts. Anyone ...

I like the look of this Dutch space game, Space Race. Beautiful graphics and little rocket playing pieces.  Looks like the maker is Pony. Yo...

I've seen Action Man board games but not Big Jim's. This looks Italian or Spanish, SOS Emergenza. Do any of you know Big Jim?

Wandering round Oakham Museum in Rutland I spotted these old games. Z-Cars was a great TV show. Don't think I had the game but I had the...

 Awhile back Looey reminisced about an Italian tin moon surface board game he had as a kid and couldn't find online. I've looked too...

Another news item today was the erection of a blue plaque on the house of the chap that invented Cluedo, one Anthony Pratt. Interestingly th...

There is an interesting old board  game called Sputnik I saw on a Museum's superb site about German space board games.  I love its plast...

 This space game looks  interesting! The box art space gun is fantastic! The plastic canons themselves are less so, but it's an interest...

Seeing this German board game, ÖL,  on one of my Kleinanzeigen searches reminded me how I used to collect vintage board games for the beauti...

  On a recent mooch round Pontefract these two oldies caught my vintage eye. Above is Three Dimensional Noughts and Crosses. How space age i...