I am absolutely fascinated by this, The CheapShow podcast are doing an episode on the original Gladiators board game and I’m trying to work out how the hell I missed this as a twelve year old or whatever. At that sort of age I’d have absolutely scoured the toys and games bit of the Argos catalogue/John Moores catalogue/Kays catalogue/whatever my Mum was using at the time and I don’t remember this at all, because if I did I would have begged to get it for Christmas.
I was well aware of the action figure game sets they would go on to release later (and they wouldn’t have held quite the same appeal for me) but even so. Even looking back at old retrospectives I don’t think I’ve seen anyone refer to it.
Have you ever been surprised to discover gameshow merch?