PUT A CORK IN IT! SPACE ROBOT AND SPACE BATTLE TARGET GAMES

As we've seen with Space Ace, those pop guns get everywhere in space. They pop up on auctions constantly.

The 80's was awash with target sets like this Space Robot set with a cork gun.

You could get it in different colours and with small plastic red pellets too.

Not sure if the rather snazzy card art is lifted from an arcade game. You?

Here's a more infantile illustration on more or less the same set too.

For larger ammo you could move up to ping pong balls and a particularly chunky see-through pistol.

Here's one boxed called Space Battle, which has some really great box art, some clearly 'inspired' by Star Wars but some not. I love the circular space station and the big ship up top; where are they from?

Here's another boxed Space battle target game. You can see the toothed rings on the pistols, which recall those on the Force toy gun we saw on MC last week.

This particular specimen is from the V&A collection no less, where the Star Wars riffing hasn't gone unnoticed!

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1371498/space-battle-target-game-target-game-unknown/

space ace collectors book!

Looks like there's a book for Space Ace collectors after all!

Written By Syd Bolton

Brian F's space ace

I must have missed the last conversation about Space Ace. 

It was a video game designed by Don Bluth, a former Disney animator.

It followed his successful video game debut called Dragon's Lair. 

There were various toys and other merch based on the characters.

I have home versions of these games for the Atari Jaguar system from the 90's as pictured.

Brian F.

New Jersey

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Anyone else have any Space Ace?

SPACE ACE ROBOT PLAYSET

Little Wierdos

There's some figures in this rack toy set that do look familiar. They all have He-Man legs! Anyone know the story behind this, the Space Ace Robot Playset?