First held in 1867, the Traditional Games attracts thousands to the region every time it is held.
And, as evidenced by the gallery below, it does not just attract local interest with a film crew visiting from Hong Kong in 1991 for a popular travel show in their homeland.
Visitors from the old West Germany learned how to toss a caber in 1982.
The Aboyne Games take on the traditional Highland games format with dancing, feats of strength and physicality all key features of the event.
1991 – Commentator and legendary broadcaster Robbie Shepherd makes friends with 12-month-old Fiona Jane Quinn
1986 – Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, Sir Maitland Mackie leads the Kinneff team in a tug-o-war
1982 – Robbie Greenlaw of Aboyne wins the long leap local event.
1982 – Peter Fraser from Ballater, Calum Morrison from Dinnet, Murray Brown from Aboyne and Alfie Bruce from Tarland take part in the strong man events
1982 -16-year-old Nethybridge dancer James Thomson performs the sword dance
1982 – Games committee member Edward Ross shows visitors from Dortmund, which was then in the old West Germany, how to toss a caber
1984 – Philip Christie, 13, from Finzean is the only boy participating in the Highland Dancing event
1987- Officials and members of the committee at the Aboyne Highland Games pictured together for the official photograph. Seated in the middle is the Chief of the event the Marquess of Huntly.
1983- Hamish Davidson from Nairn clears the bar with ease in the 28lb. weight competition.
1989 – Alistair Gunn shows us what a Halkirk man wears beneath his kilt.
1987- On your marks…youngsters get ready for the under-14 100yd race.
1989 – The Glenfiddich Heavyweight Novice competitors lift lightweight Mandy Nicol, from Aboyne. The competitors are (from left): Craig and Mark Anderson from Aberdeen, Bruce Aitken from Auchenblae, Gordon Martin from Kennethmont, Tommy Dow from Kincardine O’Neil, and Ron Young from Insch
1991 – A camera crew from Hong Kong captured all the action for broadcast prime time TV. The makers of a top Hong Kong travel show, Scenic Journeys, spent six days in Scotland making their fourth series.
1992 – Jackie Wright, 14, Aberdeen, a member of the Oldmeldrum Royal British Legion Junior Pipe Band, keeps the beat at the 125th edition of the games.
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GALLERY: Pictures of the traditional Aboyne Highland Games through the decades
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