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Battling Tops

Arxon, 1968

Battling Tops is a skill game published by Arxon in 1968. It is played with 2 to 4 players, from age 6 and in about 45 minutes.

players
2–4
minutes
45
years
6+

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Publishers
Arxon, Ideal, Iplay Games and Diversions, Marx Toys, Mattel, Inc., Pressman Toy Corp.
Designers
A. Eddie Goldfarb, René Soriano
Year of release
1968
Also known as
Battling Ships · Battling Spaceships · Kampf Kreisel · Strijd tollen

About the game

Battling Tops is a children's game invented by Eddy Goldfarb and first manufactured by Ideal in 1968. In the game, players launch spinning tops into an arena with the aim to have the final standing spinning top. The game has similarities to gasing pangkah, a traditional Malay sport.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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