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New Article: CROSSFIRE!

Monday starts early with the latest article, a tribute to Milton Bradley's "Crossfire." It's the game where two opponents vie for the championship by loading, aiming and firing endless rounds of marble bullets at two weird pucks. Plays better than it sounds, believe me. I've also included a download for the old commercial, which had a jingle that's probably a hundred times more remembered than the actual game. By the way, they still sell Crossfire, so even if you haven't thought about it in ten years, it's still out there, waiting for you.

Posted by Matt on 02/22/2004. E-mail me!

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Matt, for this gift, I may, nay, most definately will have to donate funds to you. For too long you’ve pleased me with your articles. But this, the crossfire commercial, this is too much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Chestnuts roasted by SenorWeird @ 02/25/2004 2:32 AM

Skye Alpha: Holy crap! You too? It wasn’t ’till downloading the clip here that I finally heard "THE" instead of "LOVE".
It’s a shame that the clip isn’t the version with the kid saying "Yeah!" twice that I remember seeing ten-thousand times a day over a course of ten-thousand years.

I had a water pet, I remember being displeased with the fact they took several days to air dry…

Chestnuts roasted by Rewolf J @ 02/25/2004 2:39 AM

If you thought water pets were annoying what about rub-a-dub doggy? I know these have probably been out for a while but at the CVS where my brother works they have NEW garbage pail kids. Yup, more kids barfing with snot hanging out of their nose. I never really understood how some of these characters were allowed on stickers intended for children. Is the only stipulation that as long as there is no blood its ok? I saw one of the new GPKs and he was throwing up all of his internal organs…but no blood. Another features a dismembered GPK being puked out of a shark. In today’s politically correct and overly sensitive society I’m suprised Topps even considered re-releasing the garbage pail kids. Til then let the vomit and snot flow like water.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 02/25/2004 12:55 PM

I literally squealed when I say this listed on the front page. Singing the song from the Crossfire commercial used to be an integral part of my seven year old daily schedule. Even now, when I hear the TV show "Crossfire" come on, I sing the song, even though the show is all politicians "respectfully disagreeing".

I heart Crossfire.

The game that is.

Chestnuts roasted by Lady Yate-xel @ 02/25/2004 8:00 PM

I was perusing through a big box of GPK stickers & I must’ve looked through like seven hundred of them and I couldn’t find one MIKE! needless to say – disappointed.

Chestnuts roasted by Midback @ 02/26/2004 4:57 AM

I, too, greatly enjoyed this game as a child.

As for the problems with uneven boards, it might be possible to fix it with a carpenter’s level and some cardboard or something for shims. Has anyone thought to try that?

Chestnuts roasted by Deltoid P. Hamsterlicker @ 02/26/2004 10:43 AM

I have and I am the champ. I remember the commercial like it aired yesterday. I still have mine and it rocks i’ll beat anyone

Chestnuts roasted by Brian Barnard @ 02/27/2004 7:55 PM

Yes! once again Matt attacks full throttle. Now I gotta get my filthy mitts on some CROSSFIIIIIIIRRREE action!

Chestnuts roasted by Steve @ 02/27/2004 10:21 PM

Sweat Heavens! They’ve ruined another classic just to save a few lives. The classic version of "Crossfire" didn’t have those wimpy plastic railings on both sides of the goals. I surmise the only reason the modern version has them is to prevent little fingers from looking like they had just been shoved in a blender after a regulation game. Geez… half the fun of the original Crossfire was aiming at your accursed opponents fingers as they struggled to reload, hopefully incapacitating them with pain so they didn’t realize you were blowing on the pucks to make it seem that the board wasn’t level, when in actuality it was. Mwah hah… I also used to take the slightly larger ball bearings from one of my other games that was visually indistinguishable from the standard issue metal balls, but would clog the gun, and insure an easy victory. In fact, the only way to get such an over-sized sphere out from the dispenser was to flip the entire board over, making a deathtrap of strewn marbles on the floor, which was a helpful strategy if I accidentally drew the larger ball. Oh good times, back when games could scar your body *as well as* your mind…

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Neil @ 02/28/2004 4:00 PM

ITS ABOUT TIME!!!…
I have been searching the internet for a year now, looking for that commercial, thats even the reason i heard about this site. I was going to e-mail and request it but never got around to it.
FINALLY YOU GOT IT ON HERE
its only the GREATEST COMMERCIAL OF ALL TIME! is this the full version though? it seems short.

Chestnuts roasted by OH MAN!!!!!! @ 03/02/2004 6:26 AM

DUDE!!!!! THAT CROSSFIRE SONG’S BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD SINCE I FIRST SAW THE COMMERCIAL LIKE…& YEARS AGO!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 03/03/2004 1:32 PM

Oh man I remember this game back in the good ol’days. I was never really interested in it thought (mainly because I had a SNES and I didnt really like board games too much anymore).
I remember some other board games from that era of time, like 13 Dead End Drive (sponsord by YTV like every 2 seconds) The Forbidden game where you had to make your adventurer cross the bridge and the huge ass stone guy would shake the bridge and you would fall to your doom and die a thousand deaths and finally a game that was inspired by abusive/alchohalic fathers world-wide…Don’t Wake Daddy. Quite honeslty the most realistic board game EVER MADE.

Chestnuts roasted by Joedi @ 03/11/2004 9:36 AM

i can die now i’ev seen the commercial… thanks

Chestnuts roasted by rick @ 04/08/2004 3:13 AM

I LOVED this game when I was little. I remember when my sister and I would play it, the loser had to "spin" oughta the room like that poor kid who lost in the commercial. God, we were stupid.

Chestnuts roasted by Spectre @ 04/25/2004 1:47 AM

Since my junior high school was cheap, we had this game. In 98′. Everytime it rained, we rushed to get this game. It ruled.

Chestnuts roasted by william @ 05/15/2004 6:20 PM

Good God, I still have "You’ll get caught up in the… CROSSFIRE!" seared into my mind from watching too much nickelodian as a kid, they ran ads for it all the time. I played it once. Air hockey’s cooler.

Chestnuts roasted by EhhEff @ 06/07/2004 6:22 PM

Our entire staff would like to thank you for hosting the commerical. Laughed ’til we cried.

Chestnuts roasted by The Staff at Home Movie Depot @ 07/01/2004 11:11 AM

I remember that commercial. To this day it lingers in the back of my mind and emerges every so often, leaving me helpless and yelling CROSSFIYAAAAAAAAAAH!!! HUH!!! Children and adults alike would crap their pants when that commercial suddenly (not to mention violently) exploded onto their television sets. It was, and still is, the BEST…COMMERCIAL…EVER. How can you say no to insane, hover board riding, kids in Road Warrior Jr leather suits maliciously attacking each other with an onslaught of endless marbles? There is no way my friend. You either buy the game immediately… or you die.

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 08/28/2004 3:12 AM

I played the 70s version of this, like an earlier poster mentioned. The board was almost three feet long. What noone’s talked about, and maybe it wasn’t a problem with the 90s version, was the literal bloodbath involved from blistered fingers. You would recognise other Crossfire players in the streets by the calloused and scarred state of their trigger finger. The puck was round, again as previously mentioned, so matches were gruelling in light of the longer board. And after getting beaten? The guns just lifted right off the board and could be turned on the winner. Nice.

Chestnuts roasted by UKPete @ 09/01/2004 3:26 AM

hey does anybody know who did the song for crossfire? like…they have an album or something?

Chestnuts roasted by msjz12 @ 10/17/2004 10:49 PM

was there ever a 30 second version of the crossfire commercial? i must know…and who did the theme song?

Chestnuts roasted by mike @ 10/19/2004 2:38 AM

can we buy it somewere???

Chestnuts roasted by Ti Gui @ 09/06/2006 3:48 PM

I just felt like hearing that old song again… and seeing that little kid in the leather jacket with the fire and lightning in the background… I wonder where that kid is today…

Chestnuts roasted by suz @ 10/10/2006 2:15 PM

Hey, does anyone know of any customized crossfire boards? My friends and i want to deck ours out and turn it into a full auto loader and make it sweet, then we’d have the best drinking game ever…

Chestnuts roasted by Steve @ 12/07/2006 11:30 PM

Hey! Does anyone know where I can buy a Crossfire game? They don’t carry it in any of the stores in my area and I have searched endlessly online and can’t find it. I would like to buy it as a present for someone, their birthday is Feb. 11. Let me know! Thanks!

Chestnuts roasted by Mallory @ 01/30/2007 1:21 AM

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