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PsYkOoOoO
06-17-2011, 12:35 PM
Hello guys,

I understand that there are a few board game experts around here, and I'd just like to ask some of you to help me out. I'd really like to know this board game that I played as a kid.

I played this board game around 1994, and it required the players to get their tokens, which are shaped like humans, from one point to the other. This isn't a traditional board game in the sense that it is played on a flat cardboard. Rather, the path that the tokens have to go through wind around this green plastic mountain of some sort. What made the game different for me was that right in the middle of the game, there is a giant claw monster of sorts that will somehow reach out and grab your tokens, thus losing that token in the process. You will have to start from the beginning all over again. The monster in the middle is mechanical, I believe, and it was green.

Any ideas what game I am talking about?

JBond
06-17-2011, 05:16 PM
Ask IanTheCool.

Dracula
06-17-2011, 05:25 PM
It sounds a little bit like Fireball Island, but that didn't really have the monster claw thing you were describing...

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0924/1.jpg

PG Cooper
06-17-2011, 05:28 PM
That's what I thought.

(P.S. Did you get that from James Rolfe?)

Dracula
06-17-2011, 05:36 PM
That's what I thought.

(P.S. Did you get that from James Rolfe?)

Yes

Deexan
06-17-2011, 06:24 PM
I was thinking Game of Life then he lost me with the claw tangent.

IanTheCool
06-17-2011, 07:43 PM
Yeah, i think you are probably thinking of Fireball Island.

PsYkOoOoO
06-17-2011, 10:53 PM
You know what, it's possible that I might have gotten the claw thing wrong. Let me go check out Fireball Island. It has been nearly 20 years, after all.

PsYkOoOoO
06-17-2011, 10:55 PM
Hmm. I don't think it's Fireball Island. The pictures aren't ringing a bell for me. I hope I didn't remember the details wrongly, though.

thebtskink
06-17-2011, 11:06 PM
Not green, but it's Forbidden Bridge. I had this. It was great for about 3 weeks then I moved on.

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http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/ForbiddenBridgeBox.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Forbidden_Bridge_back.jpg

Ramplate
06-17-2011, 11:07 PM
Is it Tornado Rex?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3517/tornado-rex

http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic715821.jpg

JBond
06-18-2011, 01:24 AM
This is turning into the greatest thread ever.

Tolkien
06-18-2011, 03:10 AM
...it already has.