Best XMas Present Ever

TroyK · #1 12-25-2007, 02:29 PM

My favorite all time Christmas present escaped 35 years or so of confinement in my mom's attic and traveled some 3,000 odd miles and found it's way back under my tree again this year. It's just as good the 2nd time! I called up my Canadian next door neighbor and he brought his kids over. Good times!

Thanks Santa! (er, this time, I actually know that it's mom)

Marcus Johnson · #2 12-25-2007, 02:34 PM

Oh, shweeeet! That brings back memories of the fishing lodge I used to go to every summer as a kid, up in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. After we'd fished ourselves silly for about a week, we'd spend the occasional rainy day inside the gigantic log-built main lodge, playing something really similar to what you have (cribbage, too). Great times! I'm jealous.

Uncletoad · #3 12-25-2007, 07:06 PM

Totally Bad Ass!

I had one too.

TroyK · #4 12-25-2007, 08:46 PM

We all did! Just as much fun as it was way back when. Every old man on my block has been over here all day playing slot hockey. The magic is not lost on any of them. Most of their kids have picked up on it right away too.

**Damon Rondeau** · #5 12-25-2007, 11:35 PM

You got a ball bearing puck in that baby? The ball bearing pucks were heavier but man they rolled. The table game is a wrist shot game...

bejoyous · #6 12-26-2007, 06:46 AM

Great gift!

Reminds me of The Santa Clause 2 movie.

I recently found a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car in my folks attic. I gave it to my daughter as a birthday gift.

TroyK · #7 12-26-2007, 03:23 PM

Don't have the ball bearing puck, but we've been discussing them. I also remember a magnetic puck that I also don't have. I remember pucks from this game falling into the cold air return vents in the house I grew up in and getting lost under the floor boards of our house. Sometimes we could fish them out and sometimes, they were gone. I'm guessing the ballbearing versions kept going once they hit the sub-floor.

I'm still great at this game by the way. You should have seen the centering pass from my right winger and one timer from Rocker Richard at Center this morning. Goalie never had a chance. Didn't even see it. Ball bearings would make this completely unfair.

With a little lysol, epoxy and WD40, I think this game will have a good year in my house. The epoxy is setting up now...oh, and my Superflexible G strings came in the mail this morning, so...eye on the prize, I guess...