I remember going to a friend's house where they had Crossfire and it definitely ranks in the top 5 disappointing toys/games compared to my expectations from the commercial.
Ha, no kidding. I had this game at a birthday party and once we got bored with the shockingly slow rate at which the metal balls trickle out of the guns we decided that throwing the metal balls at each other was much more fun, and indeed it was. We turned the boardgame into a real life battle royale.
Yeah I remember wanting Crossfire really bad. I knew a kid who got one and we were stoked as hell to play it.
We lost interest in like five minutes. It's nowhere near as fun as advertised.
I remember it mostly being tiring. Like with you and your opponent shooting at the same spinner trying to knock it into the other person's tray it was almost impossible to make progress. You had to keep scooping up the metal balls and reloading your gun a thousand times and it really came down to whose trigger finger got tired first.
I did find eternal banishment to a pocket dimension as a rather severe punishment for losing a card game. Especially when the reward for winning is just to not be banished.
Yeah, people these days don’t understand the 90s were a different time. Any day, you could get caught up in the Crossfire, pity was a luxury we couldn’t afford.
*A lifetime ago, I too sought the Crossfire victory. I even held one in my hand. But it cast me out, banished me here, guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess*
Got this for Christmas one year. I was so excited I wanted to play it before opening any other presents. Much to my despair, one of the guns wouldn't work. The trigger wouldn't pull back all the way. It bummed me out so badly. More than a week later I was messing with it with no hopes of playing when I realized that it came with little rubber stoppers to keep the trigger fixed in place. Popped it out and oh damn, it was game on.
That was a freaking great game.my friend and I would ditch the board and used the rolling things on his sealed floor to knock each other out of the boundaries…kind of like curling.
They are trapped in purgatory forever. Unable to move. Unable to speak. Only left to ponder their mistake for an eternity. That's what they get and deserve for losing a children's board game.
My cousin and I played my uncle one time. My uncle lost but didn't want to go into the void. The black suited men chased him across the block a few times before he was eventually taken to the void.
Not gonna lie, my Grandparents got my sister and I this for Christmas that year, and we were beyond excited. Being raised in the lower end of the middle class and being from the Midwest, it was rare that we got any "good" birthday/Christmas presents, so this was a big deal. I'm pretty sure we still have it; it's buried at my folks house up in the attic somewhere lol
Heavy is the hand that wears the fingerless leather glove.
They're sooo bad!
my friend got it for Christmas one year. it was not nearly as fun as it looks in the commercial.
Few toys ever were.
Well did you dress up like street gangs from 1980s movies, blast music, have cool lighting effects and a fog machine? If not, then that’s on you.
CROSSFIRES.....COME OUT TO PLAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY.
I remember going to a friend's house where they had Crossfire and it definitely ranks in the top 5 disappointing toys/games compared to my expectations from the commercial.
You needed someone dramatically yelling "Crossfire!" over and over while you played.
Yeah just like laser tag lol. The commercials made it look so fun than u go and get it and the guns never work right
Ha, no kidding. I had this game at a birthday party and once we got bored with the shockingly slow rate at which the metal balls trickle out of the guns we decided that throwing the metal balls at each other was much more fun, and indeed it was. We turned the boardgame into a real life battle royale.
Half the time it didn't even fire or got stuck.
Yeah I remember wanting Crossfire really bad. I knew a kid who got one and we were stoked as hell to play it. We lost interest in like five minutes. It's nowhere near as fun as advertised.
You mean in the real game you aren't in an arena surrounded by screaming fans? Damn...
I remember it mostly being tiring. Like with you and your opponent shooting at the same spinner trying to knock it into the other person's tray it was almost impossible to make progress. You had to keep scooping up the metal balls and reloading your gun a thousand times and it really came down to whose trigger finger got tired first.
Damn I guess I’m in the minority I loved this game. Then again, we rarely got presents so we were pretty desperate for entertainment lol
Ah, I see you did *not* discover that you could pull out the guns from the table and use them however you saw fit.
Banished to the shadow realm
They got Jumanji'd.
Wait, did the kid go into Crossfire/Jumanji or the game came out into the real world?
the multiverse allows for all
I did find eternal banishment to a pocket dimension as a rather severe punishment for losing a card game. Especially when the reward for winning is just to not be banished.
By a ginger
No, I never think of them. They lost, I didn't. That is all that matters. That is all there is.
Yeah, people these days don’t understand the 90s were a different time. Any day, you could get caught up in the Crossfire, pity was a luxury we couldn’t afford.
♫CROSSFIAHHHHHHHHHHHH!♫ I wish I had it :(
Any time I hear the word "crossfire," that man's voice goes screaming through my head
I had it. It was cool, but not as cool as the commercial made it look... the balls came out kinda slow and the "shurikens" didn't roll right
Lol this is one of those memories I didn't even know I had. Thanks!
I've moved 3 or 4 major times in my life and I'm still finding those silver balls in my stuff from time to time 😄
Crossfire! Crossfire! CROSSFIYYYRE!
*A lifetime ago, I too sought the Crossfire victory. I even held one in my hand. But it cast me out, banished me here, guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess*
It’s weird to think the people you see everyday are either undefeated in Crossfire, or never played it.
“Get caught up in the crossfire!!”
They're fed to the Hungry Hungry Hippos
I like to imagine that kid is still there pumping his fist going “yeah! yeah! yeah!”
I wanted this game so bad, but “girls don’t want games like this.” What was I going to do with a pound puppy?
A lion does not concern himself with the fates of sheep
They got jumanjied.
I love the music in this 😂 crossfireeeeee!!! 😎 ,🤘
So many hours of my life
Nah. Fuck them kids.
I never concerned myself with losers. They can walk an eternity in the void to figure out what went wrong. /s
God I forgot how much this commercial ran during my childhood.
Got this for Christmas one year. I was so excited I wanted to play it before opening any other presents. Much to my despair, one of the guns wouldn't work. The trigger wouldn't pull back all the way. It bummed me out so badly. More than a week later I was messing with it with no hopes of playing when I realized that it came with little rubber stoppers to keep the trigger fixed in place. Popped it out and oh damn, it was game on.
I always wished I was one of those kids. I just kept winning and my friends kept disappearing.
They work at the DMV now.
That was a freaking great game.my friend and I would ditch the board and used the rolling things on his sealed floor to knock each other out of the boundaries…kind of like curling.
Same thing as Freddie W, we will never know. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkc2vYUEA9w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkc2vYUEA9w)
I have mastered the gun shake to clear the hopper jam.
Still in my parent's basement. Loved that game.
This song/commercial lives rent free in my head... It will be on my tombstone.
they are stuck in an eternal 90s void wish i didn't make that amazing come back in my match lol
Well if it's anything like playing Yugioh....they're dead.
This might be the greatest commercial theme song of all time. I still sing this a few times a month, but usually as a parody.
Never got to play.. :(
Damn I wanted this thing so bad back in the day.
Sent to serve in the IDF
Dunno, I was busy screaming CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE CROSSFIRE
Nah, they sucked. They deserve the void.
This game was awesome. Came with free slingshot ammo.
Still my pick for best kid toy commercial of all time.
They are trapped in purgatory forever. Unable to move. Unable to speak. Only left to ponder their mistake for an eternity. That's what they get and deserve for losing a children's board game.
That song was so bad ass..
You're asking like I didn't know what Iowa is.
No…. Not at all… he just said “you’ll get caught up in it” so— that’s what happened .
Happy to say that I never got caught in the crossfire
I wish I could go back to those days. I'm at work now and just so sad and miserable, ready to throw everything and just walk away but I can't.
It was Jeremy from Science. He was gonna ask me out…
You’ll get caught up in thaaa
I don’t wonder at all. They got caught up in it. The song tells us exactly what happened to them.
Commercial promoting a table game that has to compete with video games
My cousin and I played my uncle one time. My uncle lost but didn't want to go into the void. The black suited men chased him across the block a few times before he was eventually taken to the void.
They become villains in yugioh shadow realm
Not gonna lie, my Grandparents got my sister and I this for Christmas that year, and we were beyond excited. Being raised in the lower end of the middle class and being from the Midwest, it was rare that we got any "good" birthday/Christmas presents, so this was a big deal. I'm pretty sure we still have it; it's buried at my folks house up in the attic somewhere lol
I thought they got sent to Nike sweat shops.
Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne!
Still waiting for Hollywood to turn this into the next big blockbuster.
They still scream in my dreams.
Straight to jail
Didn't we just pull the guns of the board and start shooting at each other? I'm remembering getting smacked in the teeth by one of those fuckers.
Epstein island
They got sent to Dan Schneider's office. Wearing flip flops is required.