Sky Battle by Ideal, was a World War I flying aces game with two plastic bi-planes at each end of a curved board with a plastic frame illustrated with sky, clouds and trailing smoke. Each plane was mounted on a a ball-bearing joystick style gun (with button on top,) much like those used in Crossfire, which you used to shoot out the supporting struts underneath the wings of your opponent s plane, causing it to go into a nosedive and lose the round. Simple, addictive and with a surprising level of skill involved, Sky Battle remained a favourite toy for years since the planes and ball bearing guns would work just as well off the board.

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