Please help! Does anyone remember what this gimmicky board game series was called?

Pigman II

The only way I can describe it was a board-game trapped inside the body of a 'cassette tape'.

It was a actually faux-cassette tape (similar in size to a regular cassette tape) and the board slid out in two (or three?) foldable sections.

The counters were blue and red magnets and could stick to the fold out game-board which was plastic on the surface.

The dice was repesented by a spring-loaded spinning wheel contained within area between the two 'teeth-wheels' of the cassette.

Yeah I know it sounds crazy but I'm sure it was real and that I'm not just imagining it. I seem to even remember the one I had was orange and had some sort of 'jungle' theme to it.

It would have been on the go in 1988 by my reckoning. I've been trying to find the name for ages now.

Thanks.

Furp

Your not dreaming I also remember that game.

I can picture it in my head but I can't remember the name of it, for some reason I keep thinking that there where a few different versions and that they were travel versions of bigger board games like go for broke.

Anyone else remember?

monkeyfudge

Yes. I remember it as well.

A friend of mine had the orange one when I was a kid and I remember being very jealous... but I'm sure he was secretly disappointed with the cheap plasticy board game whose peices go missing easily....

monkeyfudge

And the answer is:

FLIPSIDERS

There is even a Yahoo! Group based on them at:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mbflipsiders/

Pigman II

Thanks a mill for that one Monkeyfudge. It had been wracking my brain for a while now. If only the range had been called 'Tape & BoardGame gimmick' instead of something totally irrelevant like 'Flipsiders' it'd have been a lot easier!

Anyway, here's the one I had 'Dragon Master'.
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/mbflipsiders/vwp?.dir=/&.src=gr&.dnm=Dragon+Master+Game+(gimme!+;).jpg&.view=t&.done=http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/mbflipsiders/lst?&.dir=/&.src=gr&.view=t