02/22/2004 Entry: "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.

Chestnuts roasted by Monster Dog @ 02/22/2004 07:44 PM EST

4! Highest yet!

Chestnuts roasted by jason1551 @ 02/22/2004 07:47 PM EST

I used to love this game!

Chestnuts roasted by KTK @ 02/22/2004 07:48 PM EST

Now THIS was a game I truly loved. It never really required great skill or thought.... the person with the most trigger-happy finger and the slightly more accurate aim could win anytime. Bravo for Crossfire!

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 02/22/2004 08:10 PM EST

I don't think I should ever own this game. My brother and I already have epic battles with Siege, mostly over who gets to use the cannon instead of the lame-ass crossbow, so I think one of us would end up with a weird alien triangle puck lodged in our eye.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/22/2004 08:17 PM EST

I was just thinking about this game the other day..... probably one of the top five catchiest commercial songs I can think of. I had no idea that they still made it, and I may have to possibly perhaps consider buying it maybe.

Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 02/22/2004 08:20 PM EST

about the not-being-level thing, yeah, that was a terrible part of this game. i remember that my brother and i had crossfire and before we would even start shooting pellets at each other, the little alien things would start rolling in a certain direction toward the unfortunate sibling...who was usually me...

by the way, those are some great pictures you took...the little pucks looked like they were in some kind of shootout at sunset. dramatic.

Chestnuts roasted by ChaosTheory @ 02/22/2004 08:27 PM EST

Niiiice!
I haven't seen that game for awhile.

Nice to know they still make it.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 02/22/2004 08:33 PM EST

i always wanted that curly haired kid to lose. I hated him!

Chestnuts roasted by LCM @ 02/22/2004 08:40 PM EST

Never had this one, but I did own another "battle game." Who remembers `Crossbows and Catapults'? If the game wasn't going your way you could always employ mom's ashtray and scatter castle parts to the other end of the house and leave a nasty welt on your brother's forehead.

Dane E. Coffey

Chestnuts roasted by Dane E. Coffey @ 02/22/2004 08:41 PM EST

Yeah, what a great game. My friend got one for Christmas when it first came out. We played it a few times and it lead to heated arguments like "You had more marbles than me!" and stuipd stuff like that. But we ended up destroying the thing and trying to put the marbles in gasoline then light them on fire and shoot them at eachother. Lets just say, we werent aloud to play at eachothers houses for a while, and were bannished to the outside.
haha

Chestnuts roasted by Zach @ 02/22/2004 08:45 PM EST

I still have mine. I'm going to go play it now.

...Yes, by myself.

Chestnuts roasted by Fireball @ 02/22/2004 09:00 PM EST

Cool! i loved this thing and finaly a cometrial i can rember.

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 02/22/2004 09:27 PM EST

This is probably one of the few board games my family never owned. In fact, Mom point blank said, despite persistant begging, that she refused to buy this game. Her excuse was that it encouraged violence (and she's right, but who cares?), but I think she was just afraid she'd end up stepping on and picking up the little balls all over the house (and, come to think of it, she was probably right about that too - must be a mother thing).

Incidentally, I also fondly recall the commercials and can still sing that heart-pounding, adrenaline-rushing jingle ("Crossfire! Don't get caught in the...CROSSFIRE!!").

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/22/2004 09:49 PM EST

I think I played this game once while babysitting years ago. Being the (much) older player, I hauled ass and shattered a child's confidence. Go me!

BTW, I'll be the first dick to point out that the article is dated incorrectly. Go me x2!

Chestnuts roasted by God Animagnus @ 02/22/2004 09:54 PM EST

I loved that commercial, but now that I watch it, I have to wonder what the circumstances were. I mean, I think we're all in agreement that the kid with the greasy slicked-back black hair is decisively evil, but still, he spins into some sort of oblivion in the end. Maybe he just got stuck on the side that slid downhill. I kind of feel sorry for him now. But the people in the bleachers surrounded by fire seemed to be pretty happy about his loss. Is this the way we'll settle arguments in the future? By playing Crossfire? I hope not, because my aim's horrible in this game.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Monkey @ 02/22/2004 10:15 PM EST

Matt, you don't like Mousetrap? After all, "The fun's in catching...Mousetrap!"

Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 02/22/2004 10:22 PM EST

I don't know. To me the game looks like a dark wizard took "Hungry Hungry Hippos", "Turn the Terrible Tank" and "Beyblade" and used that same merging spell New Skeletor used on new Two Bad in the New MOTU.

As for playing a game like this by yourself, some would say that makes you look lonely. I say it's the best way to make sure you win! :D

Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 02/22/2004 10:27 PM EST

i truly miss that game, and too cheap to buy it. eh, i guess i'll just have to settle for watching the commercial and reading matt's review. =*(

Chestnuts roasted by nelson from www.safetylamp.net @ 02/22/2004 10:49 PM EST

Matt - remember the "Three-In One Tournament Table" that was pimped in the early-90's?

The commercial had the 2 kids in the basement playing billiards, then the mom shouted down "Time for lunch!" and the kids changed it into a ping-pong table, then mom shouted "Dinner's ready!" and they started playing glow-in-the dark air-hockey.

I wanted one of those so bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 02/22/2004 11:09 PM EST

Well, I only played like one game of Crossfire in my entire life, but I knew it was still in production courtesy of Matt's Amazon Wish List. As for Mousetrap, I never played a game of it ever. I would just set up the board and then set off the mousetrap. Good fun.

Chestnuts roasted by Rood @ 02/22/2004 11:12 PM EST

DUDE. Crossbows & Catapults.

One of the BEST GAMES EVER.

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 02/23/2004 12:17 AM EST

Hm... I was just playing Crossfire yesterday. Sadly, we only have 16 marbles now, and only the star-shaped puck piece. Still, the game lasted a good twenty minutes. It's really intense with one piece.

Chestnuts roasted by Tadashi @ 02/23/2004 12:40 AM EST

I had the early 90's version of Crossfire as well. However, mine had metal rails on either side of the goal(?) rather than plastic. Also, mine was sloped with a slight spine, meaning the middle of the board was higher than either side to keep the balls from gathering in the center.

The real trick to this game is getting your one handed re-load down. Being able to aim and reload at the same time is a must.

And I had this one friend that would play for about one minute, than stop shooting. He then would sandbag and collect my ammo, then destroy me. I fell for it every time.

Good times!

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak (my website has hostess sushi!) @ 02/23/2004 01:02 AM EST

DAMN YOU X-ENTERTAINMENT! MY APT. FEELS EMPTY NOW WITHOUT CROSSFIRE! This theme song, and that damn Water-Pets theme song that no one else remembers as even existing, are the two theme songs I still find myself humming or singing in my head, even today at the ripe old age of 19. Now I have to go home and hunt through my attic for my game or blow a 20 on the current version. I must have been one of the lucky ones, cause my board had a perfectly level playing field that brought me and my brother hours of entertainment and years of bitter hatred. Ah, memories.

Chestnuts roasted by The End Of J @ 02/23/2004 01:06 AM EST

I'm a little disappointed that you didn't use the original Crossfire commercial. Crossfire was one of those games I constantly wanted but my mom would never ever get for me.

She's the reason I'm so bitter.

Chestnuts roasted by Kev @ 02/23/2004 01:09 AM EST

should have done something about the crossfire commercial. cmon, the kids riding in on those pucks! maybe another day, good stuff though. i really should buy that game but no one wants to play with me.

Chestnuts roasted by Sideburnedhamster @ 02/23/2004 01:54 AM EST

Grrr.....the water pets commercial! I remember that clamp trap! I don't know what the hell they are but...

"water pets water pets love getting water wet..."

I'll never get that out of my head now....And I always got pissed off, because water was already wet.

Chestnuts roasted by David Logan @ 02/23/2004 02:05 AM EST

ummm...Clamp should be clap. Guess I have MOTU On the brain again. Speaking of which, I hope EVERYONE has, or will now sign the petition to keep it around. Matt rocks for mentioning it on the site.

Chestnuts roasted by David Logan @ 02/23/2004 02:06 AM EST

There was a longer version of that commercial, wasn't there? I thought I remembered the winner shouting "Yeah!" at least twice. I never liked that kid. Also, up until now I never knew what the second line in that damn song was. For some reason I always thought it sounded something like "You can count a finger!". Yea, I must have been pretty retarded 10 years ago.

Chestnuts roasted by MG @ 02/23/2004 02:33 AM EST

I owned this bad boy probably the first or second year it came out, as those stupid jackets and gloves the kids were wearing were STILL in-style. Man, I schooled my younger brother so bad, even though he had no idea what the game was about. That didn't matter. He got caught up in tha Crossfire!

Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 02/23/2004 03:04 AM EST

I also had this game when I was younger. Even when there was no one to play with, you still can play, all I did was inclined the board. Man, I had great fun with that game.

Chestnuts roasted by Liquidduck @ 02/23/2004 03:59 AM EST

So ShadowWing, you don't like Crossfire? TWO-BAD!
Eeeha ha ha ha hahahaaaaa!

God, that's the funniest line in the new MOTU... I'm going to curse you forever for the sake of a punchline. Awesome.

Anyhow, I didn't know what the second line really was until reading this article. I thought it went "Crossfire, you'll get caught up enough... Crossfiyah!" You know, like you'll get caught up in it, sho' nuff. Well, at least I wasn't counting on a finger.

Where can I buy this game? And is one of the mutant pucks worth more points than the other?

Chestnuts roasted by Deathfrogurt @ 02/23/2004 05:14 AM EST

Man, we called this game the equalizer. Since none of my friends had this game, we had to hang out at one of the nerdy kids houses to play... and yes he did have the holy grail, mecca like level playing field. I still remember spending sundays at his house, getting yelled at for swearing and smoking in the back yard.... still it was crossfire.

Chestnuts roasted by Toxikfoxx @ 02/23/2004 08:26 AM EST

I just came up with an awsome idea while reading the article. I want to take my old Crossfire game and my old Turn the Terrible Tank game, and meld them into one Super Battlefield game where you have to shoot the pucks and stop the tank from destroying your base. Complete mayhem.
incedently, ShadowWing gave me the idea to add Hungrey Hungrey Hippos, so you have to actually work to aquire your ammo. I just think the pastel colored hippos will take away from the battlescene, so I will have to paint them all silver and add wires to make Cyber-Hippos.

Yeah.

And Crossbows and Catapults rules!

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/23/2004 09:15 AM EST

Oh man!! You had to mention the Water Pets song... Now it's stuck in my head... AARGHHH... My bro and I played CROSSFIRE!! all the time... He was a sandbagger... Blast him... *runs to Toys B' Us*

Chestnuts roasted by sallizar @ 02/23/2004 09:56 AM EST

I think you could count on a finger, since someone is going to flip someone off.

Chestnuts roasted by Spiffy McKracken @ 02/23/2004 10:06 AM EST

Awesome review Matt. My best friend had this game growing up and we thought it was the shit. He won most of the time, but ironically nowadays, he complains that his dick is only 4.5" long. I'm serious.

I guess I won in the end since mine is 5". "You gotta win it in the crossfire...Crossfire!"

Chestnuts roasted by Hynotix @ 02/23/2004 10:43 AM EST

It's about damn time someone put that ad on the web.

CROSSFIIIRRRRREEEEE!!!

And why in God's name would anyone compare Crossfire to Beyblade? Sacrelidge I say, sacrelidge!

Chestnuts roasted by Teirusu @ 02/23/2004 11:19 AM EST

Can you imagine a hyperactive ADD single child with cross fire? I must have learned to play millions of board games by myself. Other games I need to see reviews for are FIREBALL ISLAND and TORPEDO RUN.
I must have had one the "level" cross fire boards the 2 times I owned one. Never had a problem. I used to even do freakin tests with my board by letting two marbles run from the center of the board to each end and they pretty much tied.

Chestnuts roasted by Dannyo @ 02/23/2004 11:22 AM EST

You know...

Marbles hurt.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 02/23/2004 11:43 AM EST

in the late eighties, i found in my garage a copy of crossfire that was quite different from the early 90's version. no fiery graphics; this thing looked like a 70's air hockey table with green and yellow colour scheme. the pucks were not star and triangle shaped, but were just perfectly round. no bumpers, and the board was of a sturdier material that probably was less likely to be unbalanced. how did this strange game arrive in my garage? i was too young to have purchased it when it originally came out...that sure was a good game, wish i still had a copy of the old school version...

Chestnuts roasted by Michael @ 02/23/2004 12:32 PM EST

I never owned the game, but I've somehow come into the possesson of the six-pointed puck. Sometimes, I shoot at it with a TMNT marble shooter until I either run out of marbles (I need to buy one of those big bags of a million marbles for a buck), or it falls off the table. I like the memories of going to the nerdy kid's place and getting thrown out. Reminds me of the Toy Fare editorial about the Superman Spinball Pinball where someone got torked about his place in line and chucked the pointed spinball at another kid, resulting in severe "bannination" for all. When that kind of thing happens, you know it is a game to be envied.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/23/2004 12:49 PM EST

thank you so much for writing this review. i remember seeing the spots for it on tv loooong ago. the way the kid pumped his fist in victory at the end of the commercial was just priceless. i was thinking that this game was prime material for this site, glad to see that its here now!

Chestnuts roasted by jimi @ 02/23/2004 01:10 PM EST

Now I'm depressed, Matt :( I never owned crossfire and I really really wanted it, but alas, nobody ever bought it for me :( Ah well, I'm going to cheer myself up. Let's all come to my site for milk and cookies!

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 02/23/2004 01:45 PM EST

foe's skin!!!

heheheehhheehhheheheehehe

Chestnuts roasted by mhmdghm @ 02/23/2004 02:08 PM EST

I could've sworn that the lyrics to the theme song were just "You gotta firefirefirefirefirefire CAH-RA-HOSS FIE-AHHHHHH" over wicked-bad-nasty guitar riffs. But maybe I'm a chode. I never really had any, ya know, friends growing up, so I used to set my M.U.S.C.L.E. Men up on this and shoot their mutated selves. "EAT BERRING TERRI-BULL!"

Chestnuts roasted by Exile @ 02/23/2004 02:27 PM EST

I don't know about anyone else, but in my house we reference the Crossfire commercials all the time, to this very day. I can't tell you how many times my sister and I have howled "Croooosssfiiiiiiiiiiyah!" and then followed it up with the deadpan "You'll get caught up in it!"
By the way, thanks a lot, The End Of J, for bringing up that damnable "Water Pets" jingle. I'll never get rid of that earworm.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/23/2004 02:59 PM EST

Crossfire was a great game to show your brothers who was boss. If you go by the size of the box however, Torpedo Run was the greatest.

Chestnuts roasted by Spectre @ 02/23/2004 03:23 PM EST

Worm in head! WORM IN HEAD!!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/23/2004 03:23 PM EST

Torpedo Run was the biggest game ever....the board was freakin huge and you got to fire those red discs at enemy ships with your submarine!!! so many memories

Anyone here ever play Fireball Island?

Chestnuts roasted by Malfuriouspete @ 02/23/2004 03:57 PM EST

I never played crossfire, but I had this game that was one better. Essentially it was a smaller variation on air hockey where each player had a slider attached to the rink blocking a goal. Pretty standard, but the hook to this game was the puck launcher that launched a metal puck that you put into a winder and shot out that was spinning at least 60,000 RPM (no kidding). The metal puck shot around the arena at a superhigh speed until it stopped or you got a goal which consisted of the puck going in, spinning furiously for a couple seconds, and you covering your face in case it suddenly hit an angle to go airborne.

Coolest game ever...I destroyed three bad GI Joes with it.

Chestnuts roasted by Cannibalizer @ 02/23/2004 04:00 PM EST

fireball island was the sh#@!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by tunedport89 @ 02/23/2004 04:31 PM EST

I couldn't believe what i was reading, i completely remember that game. i have to tell you all...

MY BOARD WAS LEVEL!

i still have it somewhere, but im sure all the balls are missing. i remember the few minutes those games lasted. it was a great game to cheat at, since you could always pick up the board w/ the pistol for a split second and no one would notice but it would give you a decided advantage. in case you forgot...

MY BOARD WAS LEVEL!

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 02/23/2004 04:32 PM EST

WHOS GOING TO BUY ME?

Chestnuts roasted by monkeymonkfish @ 02/23/2004 04:34 PM EST

I wanted that hockey game! I wanted to rev up the puck as fast as humanly possible and see if it could do damage to the board. Imagine if you could spin the pucks in Crossfire like that! AND shoot the ball bearings at them. And add Hooters girls to the mix. And everything was covered in hot fudge and/or 24 carat gold.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/23/2004 04:39 PM EST

Oh man. This harkens back to the day when ball bearings seemed to be one of the marks of a kid who knew their science. That seems like an odd scentence, but whatever kid had actual ball bearings to work with for their science fair project was an atlas of science. And best yet, after dismantling the project the ball bearings were left over to play with.

Getting hit by a ball bearing hurts way more than getting hit by a 2' rubber ball (aka: the world ball). Getting hit by each in the same day was the first time I learned about distribution of energy through surface area via direct example.

Of course, back then a kid could believe that paint was the ultimate adhesive. Childhood indeed is a time for wacky theories and misusing the mighty ball bearing.

Chestnuts roasted by Tonnica @ 02/23/2004 05:08 PM EST

i remember fireball that game was pretty cool. it had that evil looking idol spitting out red marbles at your game pieces. classic!!!

Chestnuts roasted by crazy8 @ 02/23/2004 05:23 PM EST

The star-shaped puck just reminds me of a Beyblade, or maybe it's the arena vibe.

New Skeletor is my favorite take on the character. He's the best of Old Skeletor and Skeletor 2 (from New Adventures of He-Man) wrapped up with the spirit of Mark Hamil's Joker.

News from the Dunkaroo's front: The store I work at stopped selling them maybe three years ago, so they actually might be gone now. Then again, we don't sell Cookie Crisp, so that's not official.

Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing...again @ 02/23/2004 05:25 PM EST

"New Skeletor is my favorite take on the character. He's the best of Old Skeletor and Skeletor 2 (from New Adventures of He-Man) wrapped up with the spirit of Mark Hamil's Joker."

You know what, you're right. He DOES give me Hamill Joker vibes.

I'll never forget when they introduced Stinkor. My brother-in-law said they should just call him Fartmonkey. I replied by doing a dead on Skeletor impersenation: "Perhaps I should have called you FARTMONKEY!!!"

Chestnuts roasted by Teirusu @ 02/23/2004 05:53 PM EST

Speaking of cool villains, why did Mumm-Ra use playwright terms a lot? Was he the revived corpse of a Broadway director or what? And yes, he could have been named FartMonkey.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/23/2004 06:06 PM EST

Funny, when the commercial first came on I thought the song said "Crossfire, you'll get caught up in love!"

And I don't know why. o_o

Chestnuts roasted by Skye Alpha @ 02/23/2004 06:51 PM EST

CROSS-FIYAH!

Dammit all, I wanted this game badly when I was little. Now I want it even more.

Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 02/23/2004 07:45 PM EST

Finally you did it Matt. Who can really forget a commerical like that? Totally right about that playing field level, I also had one that had one of the guns triggers so hard to pull you'd need hercules to pitch shoot for you. But damn if it was a fun way to waste five seconds with. Thanks Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Jimkaider @ 02/23/2004 07:49 PM EST

Man I loved to get caught up in the crossfire! Except i dont remember sweating as much as the kids in the commercial did... And there was a lot less lightning. Also, i think i lucked out on the board. Mine wasnt off level at all.

And after i lost the pucks i just used the board as a execution ground for mu action figures. one ball bearing in the back of the head would dispatch any unloyal GI Joe.

Chestnuts roasted by Saburo @ 02/23/2004 07:51 PM EST

HOLY CRAP!!!!

I remember water-pets! "They jump in the water, they dont need a boat, because the water-pets love to float!"

Or Something like that...

Chestnuts roasted by Saburo @ 02/23/2004 08:07 PM EST

AUUUUGHHHHHHH!!!! SABURO!!!! MY EARS!!!!!

well actually...

MY EYES!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Phandral @ 02/23/2004 10:03 PM EST

matt, great article once again, but a little complaint from those of us Mac users in the world... ocassionally, the downloads don't work properly. I don't know why sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, but, for example, i can't play the crossfire or string cheese commercials, but i had no problem with the Macy's Day Parade videos.
I don't know if you can do anything about it, but thought i'd let you know.

Anyway, great article again. I never had crossfire, but i had the other violent marble game, and broke many a green head playing it: Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Chestnuts roasted by Chopstick Sensei @ 02/24/2004 12:35 AM EST

Crossfire is still available, but I've noticed here (southern Ohio) that it's harder to find than most board games. Big K-Marts seem to be the most easiest place to score one. I remember in the early 90's sometimes we'd put our Hasbro WWF figures of G.I. Joes standing on the board, and shoot them as well as the pucks. And that commerical rules times tin.

Chestnuts roasted by Brian Hammons @ 02/24/2004 03:55 AM EST

Eh, Matt, any chance you could rework the web design so it looks good at 1152x864? Or post an ideal resolution at the bottom of the screen or something?

Chestnuts roasted by Monster Dog @ 02/24/2004 05:15 AM EST

Hey Alright 79th post...wonder if the rest of you morons who announce what post you have feel as stupid as I do. Either way awesome post. I still have my crossfire and brought it with me to college. Let me say how much fun this game is when you are shit faced. It becomes more competitive, because of all the drunken trash talk and the fact that you have problems reloading. My roommates and I are still trying to figure out a drinking game to play along with.

Chestnuts roasted by ZacWax @ 02/24/2004 05:21 AM EST

Dude, thats freakin hilarious, i used to play this game with my cousin and older brother,(both 6 yrs older than i). I always had the slanted downward side, so i only won once, and that one time i did win, i got my ass pounded with a lawn chair. good to know they still make it.

Chestnuts roasted by Stephen Rogers @ 02/24/2004 03:02 PM EST

I was @ the local comics shop here & they had a complete crossfire box in a bag that said, "complete". As if It's so precious that it needs to be in a giant dust-free bag. And The Cobra-Battle Game is next to it in some yellowed box decrapitating (my word) for the past 3 months. I'd buy it if it had its own bag that said, "complete" but it's just not worth the $14.99 for a game minus a missile. I didn't buy Crossfire, either. I ended up paying 30 bucks for a Captain Power Fortress. w00t

Chestnuts roasted by Midback @ 02/24/2004 05:46 PM EST

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 02:32 AM EST

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 02:39 AM EST

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 EST

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 08:00 PM EST

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 04:57 AM EST

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 EST

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 07:55 PM EST

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 EST

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 04:00 PM EST

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 06:26 AM EST

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 01:32 PM EST

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 09:36 AM EST

i can die now i'ev seen the commercial... thanks

Chestnuts roasted by rick @ 04/08/2004 03:13 AM EST

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 01:47 AM EST

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 06:20 PM EST

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 06:22 PM EST

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 EST

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 03:12 AM EST

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 03:26 AM EST

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 EST

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

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