Ok so I officially hate nostalga.  Don't get me wrong it's awesome and in 90% of the situations it's my favorite thing in the world HOWEVER the other 10% of the time is the part I hate about it; WHEN I CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS or CALLED.

I've remembered a couple things recently where I remember lots about what I'm remembering however I cannot remember the name and even asking others they cannot seem to remember.  Here are my two biggest ones:

1)  This one is a movie.  Essentially what I remember is that it was set in the future (kind of sci-fi type of thing) and is what it's thing was is that there were giant robots that people got into and controlled like an exo-skeleton but GIANT, more like Robotech or when the power rangers got into their megazoids (size wise not control wise).  They essentially got into this setup that looked more like the old virtual reality setups where there was a platform that you stood in.  They would pick up their leg and set it down and then slide it back and the robot would begin walking.  Anyway they used these robots to "fight" over land and resources instead of fighting "wars".

I remember that the main character was a younger guy who I believe his father used to be the same thing and he had a white robot with red hilights and I remember he was fighting another robot and somehow he shot a rocket into a crowd of people or something.  Now I don't remember much else but he had to fight the "bad" robot in the end which I believe was black and yellow but again I'm not sure.

What is that movie?  I've done searches but since I cannot remember anything really but what I've told you it's next to impossible to find.  I just want to watch it again.


2)  This one is a game.  It will be very VERY hard to explain and really my only REAL hope is to just come across one in the real world or attempt to "make" my own as best I remember it being.

I used to go to Nye Park after school and in the summer and we had all these games we used to play:  dodgeball, alaskan baseball (amazing game BTW...  good luck trying to find out about that one, I'll have to post about that one someday), 2 square, 4 square, bumper pool, box hockey (look it up), freeze tag, kick the can and classics like softball, kickball, basketball, tetherball and tennis baseball but one of my favs...  it doesn't have a name.

It was a wooden table game, like skittles (look it up).  It had two distinct sides separated by a bar that was open underneath.  Two players played and had one paddle that was an isosceles trapezoid.  There was a wooden "puck".  You had to stay on YOUR SIDE of the board.  The gameplay was simple enough.  There were (trying to remember correctly) 5 scoring zones (goals) on the back of YOUR zone.  The outer most zones were the largest and were worth 1 point.  The next inner ones were smaller and were worth 3 and the middle, the smallest hole, was worth 5 points (not really sure about the points and I think they were marked in them what they were worth). 

It starts out like box hockey with the, how we used to do it anyway, "one hockey, two hockey, three hockey" thing.  Then the game started.  You had to score a set amount of points to win the game (I guess you could play timed also if you wanted).  After a goal you would "reset" the puck at the top of the bar and start play again.  Also if a player knocked out the puck or went over to the other player's side there was a "penalty shot" given where you could put the puck anywhere on the bar and have a free shot to get it in the goal.  If missed, the game was live and if made the normal goal reset would apply.

Obviously the middle goal was the hardest one to get and often if someone was up by enough and game close enough to the end the defender wouldn't even block anything but the 3 or 5 (there may have only been 1 and 5... again i'm not really sure).  Also one thing to "help" and it made the game better is that there was a groove in the playing surface at the goalline that served for both a defensive stance helper and as the judge on if a goal is in or not.  If the puck partially went in the goal but not all the way and play stopped (because you could not "reach" into the goal either unless to get the puck after a score.  So you would put your paddle in the groove and slide it across the goal in question.  If the puck comes out then no goal, if it goes in, no goal and I cannot remember if the "1" goals went all the way to the wall but I think if it got stuck in the 1 goal then it would stop play, the puck would be reset and no goal would be rewarded.

Anyway I used to love this game and now that I have a son (even though he's 6 months old May 7th, obviously I think he, myself, his uncles as well as others and his friends will also love this game.  It is really fun and I really want to just buy one because I cannot work with tools to make my own :(






So if anyone can remember those two things PLEASE reply to this and give me something to go on.  I've searched so much.  I even went through tons of pages of google searches on "wooden table games" etc. etc. etc.  Table hockey returns too many "rod hockey" games and I'm just dying to share this game with those that have never played it or even heard of it with them.