Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Slogger and Foot-It
I recently obtained a game called Slogger. It is a game based on cricket, but has little really to do with cricket. The idea is that the players use a batsman with a sprung arm and bat to strike balls through holes in a target. The hole through which the balls pass determine the result of the 'stroke'. The game is undoubtedly by Roberts Brothers, and I believe that it dates from the late 1910s or early 1920s.
In keeping with many games of the period it is essentially the same as at least one other made by the company, Foot-it, which uses a soccer players as the projector.
The second image shows the rear of this soccer player, with the spring clearly visible.
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