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Battling Tops

Game ID: GID0041281
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Year
1968
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Description

Battling Tops was produced by Ideal, in the late 60's. Players wind their tops and by pulling a string, the tops battle each other in a ring. The last top standing wins that round. The first "manager" to reach 8 wins is the champion.

Battling Ships (1977) was an updated release with a "board" around the battling arena that's kind of like the edges of Monopoly. Otherwise it is the same as Battling Tops.

Re-implemented by:

Spin to Win Game
Battling Gladiators

Description

Battling Tops was produced by Ideal, in the late 60's. Players wind their tops and by pulling a string, the tops battle each other in a ring. The last top standing wins that round. The first "manager" to reach 8 wins is the champion.

Battling Ships (1977) was an updated release with a "board" around the battling arena that's kind of like the edges of Monopoly. Otherwise it is the same as Battling Tops.

Re-implemented by:

Spin to Win Game
Battling Gladiators

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positive
Pros
  • Engaging for long play sessions
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Combat
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Combat — The game involves battling with tops.
  • dexterity — Players engage in battles, likely involving physical manipulation of the tops.
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  • we're gonna play access and Al for the first time together
  • 1942 um and that's where I'm drawing a line you know after that it's going to get it's a big time sync that I don't think anybody will really put into it
  • so I picked it up and it became like a staple diet every weekend with me and my mates
  • it had some like event things that would happen and you would read a paragraph and then you would populate the rim with monsters
  • everything else is basically if you can see on their outline in the thing if it's not gray you can hit it
  • the heroscape big thing is you can learn like the synergies of like oh okay if I use this units and this units together then this enhances this and then this enhances that
  • Nexus out was a good one Nexus Ops was good
  • Vegas Showdown we played Nexus Ops a lot we played Vegas Showdown a lot I loved Vegas Showdown but that was like that game should still be around
  • man I I bought three copies of Queens Gambit at Toys R Us
  • risk Shadow forces in 2002
  • the lady who was checking me out was Hispanic and she said to the other tyer in Spanish and I knew what she said it's like oh my God this big game is only $1.99 I'm gonna get one
  • the Red Dot you would you could hit it yeah you just had to put your eye line behind the characters and if you could see to the other any part of them yeah
  • you can change the rules of the terrain pieces and it just makes the game interesting
  • hot lava death
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