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Article: Harold's winning game plan.
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- Spenborough Guardian (Cleckheaton, England)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2007
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HAROLD Crossley's hobby is simply child's play!
The Heckmondwike collector has amassed hundreds of games in the last 35 years and he hasn't finished yet.
Harold, of Wood Avenue, began when he was given a set of dominos by a relative and then got a travel backgammon set.
From there he started collecting pocket games, board games and card games.
But probably the most unusual is a game called Supremo - a local version of the world-famous Monopoly.
Harold thinks it might have been produced by a West Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce as a corporate game and was never intended to go on open sale.
"It was produced in 1990 and ...