Remember that marble-blasting racket from the toy adverts of decades past? Crossfire is coming back. Hasbro has confirmed a fresh reissue of its frantic two-player arena game, due on shelves on 1 July 2026, complete with the same satisfying clatter that made the original such a playground legend.
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Find events near youIf you missed it the first time, Crossfire is dead simple and gloriously noisy. Two players load up their blasters and fire metal marbles at a pair of targets, trying to drive one across the arena and into the opponent's endzone to score. First to five points wins, and a full game rarely lasts more than ten minutes. The new box packs in the arena, two blasters, 18 metal marbles, two targets and the rules, and it now folds down into a handled carry case so the whole thing can travel to a mate's house without shedding marbles across the back seat.
It is aimed at ages 7 and up and priced at $19.99 (roughly £15), which lands it firmly in the impulse-buy, stick-it-in-the-cupboard-for-rainy-days bracket. The reissue is part of a wider nostalgia push from Hasbro, which is also leaning on partners to refresh old standbys like Connect 4, Battleship and Scrabble with dice-driven twists.
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Start organising for freeFor a games group, Crossfire is less a centrepiece and more a palate cleanser, the kind of loud, silly thing you break out between heavier games to reset everyone's brain and wake the table up. If you are the one who organises game night, it is a cheap way to get newcomers and kids stuck in without a rules explanation. Round up a few people and find a game night near you to put it through its paces.
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