Board game
Parker Games
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, paper, plastic and wood
Measurements
Box – 508 mm (length); 255 mm (width); 37 mm (height), Board – 495 mm (length); 495 mm (width), Playing Pieces-25 mm (min. length); 55 mm (max. length), Dice - 11 mm (length); 11 mm (width), Lego Brick - 11 mm (length); 11 mm (width); 7 mm (height), Instructions - 240 mm (width); 301 mm (height), Cards - 64 mm (width); 42 mm (height)
Place of origin
Coalville
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661914
Summary
A board game in its original box called Microdot and based around the activities of secret agents. The box is made from white cardboard, colour-printed on the lid with the name of the game, photographs of the 'mission equipment' included in the game, and a large image on the top of a man firing a gun at a BMW car. Inside the base of the box is a rectangular space filled with a black plastic moulded container for the playing pieces. These include forty cards, four bribe cards and eighteen each briefing cards and mission cards; three dice (one regular red one with white dots, the other two made of cubes of wood with black-printed shapes on the faces); and four coloured plastic sets comprising a secret agent, briefcase, gun, dagger, passport, headphones, ladder and wire cutters - in red, green, blue and yellow (a piece has broken off the yellow wire cutters and is missing). The board, which folds in half, is backed with dark red textured paper and colour-printed on the playing side. There are also two large black and white cards giving decoding instructions for the briefing and mission cards. This decoding depends on a magnifying glass which is now missing. Also in the box is a square yellow Lego brick with four pegs each having the word 'LEGO' moulded at the end. Total number of items is 83.
Makers and roles
Parker Games, maker