Well this aged like milk.

[u/waiha]

Stumbled upon this while clearing out the attic.

She visited my primary school in Edinburgh shortly after releasing TPS. The girl in front of me (my friend and train-to-school comrade) was Southeast Asian and has an incredibly elaborate sounding name. When Joanne screwed up her face when my friend gave her her name for the signature, I laughed. This is how she decided to sign my copy.

I was laughing at you, JK.

EDIT: It’s on EBay.

[u/Sandi_Griffin]

I live in the UK and have never in my life heard them be called skittles lol

[u/licoricenipple → u/Sandi_Griffin]

Skittles is also the game itself, it's very old and the precursor to bowling. If you haven't heard the term it's probably because you're under 60, ask your grandparents. Goes back to the 1400s and it was the major pub game before snooker/billiards/pool and darts replaced it. Before that it was played outdoors and like lawn bowls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skittles_(sport)

[u/StandFew6499 → u/licoricenipple]

I’m under 60 and gave heard of skittles - have played them in a pub but that was about 30 yrs ago.

[u/Dependent_One6034 → u/StandFew6499]

Pub skittles on a the table top is another game entirely, we had ones where you throw the ball and others where you swing a ball on a string? it's where the name for skittles on a green came from, then bowles, and bowling came later I believe.

[u/StandFew6499 → u/Dependent_One6034]

The skittles were not on a table top but the floor

[u/No_Investigator9059 → u/Sandi_Griffin]

I have for the little kids toys version I think, maybe my nan used it but at a bowling alley they'd be bowling pins

[u/Sandi_Griffin → u/No_Investigator9059]

Oooh I remember it on the kids toys actually but yeah not at a bowling alley 

[u/XC5TNC → u/Sandi_Griffin]

Im from NZ and even iknew about skittles, they come in many different flavours jk

[u/Ok-Chest-7932 → u/Sandi_Griffin]

You must live in a shit bit then.