<p>I've been trying to figure this out for the longest time and I finally just did! I loved this game as a kid and couldn't remember what it was!! It's KooKooNauts!</p>

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2015-12-20T00:24:39.397Z
This was it. It's barely available anymore.
Moshe
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2015-12-18T18:23:47.233Z
2015-12-18T18:23:47.233Z
Katlyn
<p><a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22914/rocket-race" rel="nofollow">Rocket Race</a> appears to involve a pump:</p>

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  <p>An innovative space game with a real flying rocket! The astronauts are trying to get home from the alien planet but the air from the ground keeps blowing them off the path – the players use the pump to control the air streams. The first one to reach the rocket safely gets to fly home in it!</p>
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<p>You could look at <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/22914/rocket-race" rel="nofollow">the image gallery</a> to see for sure whether it's what you remember. It's hard to see from those pictures but it does have a spinner too, according to <a href="http://www.tactic.net/site/rules/UK/01535.pdf" rel="nofollow">the rules</a>. The astronaut pieces are the colors you mentioned, too, though those are pretty common color choices.</p>

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2015-11-03T13:02:18.350Z
I don't think this is it. The pump sends the astronauts use into the spaceship and the board was flatter.
Moshe
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2015-11-04T16:06:33.553Z
This game propels the spaceship, but not the astronauts into it. Definitely not it.
Moshe
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2015-11-04T17:28:44.263Z
The date is much more convincing; this came out in 2006. (No offense, but everyone's memories can be a bit inaccurate after 20 years.) Not sure if there's an older version, so I figured I'd leave the answer in case it helps someone find the right answer (and to keep other people from suggesting the same).
Cascabel
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2015-11-03T03:22:27.817Z
2015-11-03T03:35:39.193Z
2015-11-03T03:35:39.193Z
Cascabel
<p>When I was younger my parents bought a few board games and left them at my grandparents for us. </p>

<p>There was one game which had a plastic space ship mounted on a stick over the board, and it had a pump to propel the astronauts <strong>into the spaceship</strong>. You moved around the board and then when you got to the end you could pump your astronaut(s) into the spaceship.</p>

<p>I think there was a spinner similar to the one in the Game of Life, and the astronauts were green, blue, red and yellow.</p>

<p>Does anyone have any idea what game this might be?</p>

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2015-11-03T14:45:24.090Z
Roughly what year would this have been?
Cascabel
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2015-11-03T18:39:07.207Z
This was during the mid-late 90s.
Moshe
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A board game with astronauts?
Moshe
# A board game with astronauts?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-03)

When I was younger my parents bought a few board games and left them at my grandparents for us.

There was one game which had a plastic space ship mounted on a stick over the board, and it had a pump to propel the astronauts **into the spaceship**. You moved around the board and then when you got to the end you could pump your astronaut(s) into the spaceship.

I think there was a spinner similar to the one in the Game of Life, and the astronauts were green, blue, red and yellow.

Does anyone have any idea what game this might be?

**Tags:** identify-this-game

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Roughly what year would this have been?  
> **username_0**: This was during the mid-late 90s.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-12-18. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

I've been trying to figure this out for the longest time and I finally just did! I loved this game as a kid and couldn't remember what it was!! It's KooKooNauts!

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: This was it. It's barely available anymore.  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-03. Score: 2

[Rocket Race](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22914/rocket-race) appears to involve a pump:

> An innovative space game with a real flying rocket! The astronauts are trying to get home from the alien planet but the air from the ground keeps blowing them off the path – the players use the pump to control the air streams. The first one to reach the rocket safely gets to fly home in it!

You could look at [the image gallery](http://boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/22914/rocket-race) to see for sure whether it's what you remember. It's hard to see from those pictures but it does have a spinner too, according to [the rules](http://www.tactic.net/site/rules/UK/01535.pdf). The astronaut pieces are the colors you mentioned, too, though those are pretty common color choices.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I don't think this is it. The pump sends the astronauts use into the spaceship and the board was flatter.  
> **username_0**: This game propels the spaceship, but not the astronauts into it. Definitely not it.  
> **username_1**: The date is much more convincing; this came out in 2006. (No offense, but everyone's memories can be a bit inaccurate after 20 years.) Not sure if there's an older version, so I figured I'd leave the answer in case it helps someone find the right answer (and to keep other people from suggesting the same).  

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