With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design?
Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the late 1960s, devised by writer Helen Reynolds and designed by Ray Murray – the cover art featured John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Peter Noone, Paul McCartney and..? Who is that in the bottom let corner?
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PS: one year later the UK government’s Home Office introduced “Photo-fit”, the system that photographs of facial characteristics thought to be more effective than the line-drawn “Indentikit” previously used by most police forces.
In this video, Professor Jaques Penry demonstrate photofit, which featues a likeness of the British entertainer Eric Morecambe.
Read: Physogs: The Print-Out-And-Play Photofit Game For Crime Families (1930)
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