Name your favorite toys as a kid

[Archie]

Balls

 

[PuckOff]

I was a big Lego kid.

 

[Archie]

I'll still get a good hour of entertainment right now, if you put a large collection of legos on the floor in front of me......


But still...... I'll double that entertainment time with my balls, even to this day.....

 

[betplom]

Rock'em sock'em robots, then as a teenager I found a "Space Invaders" machine in the lobby of my local bowling alley and was hooked.

 

[CrazyJoeGallo]

Yes

Damn... Looks like your toy has a disease! What's with the Green & Yellow color cooch?

 

[Matty]

We had an old F1 set with a picture of Jackie Stewart on the box. You had to pour oil drops in the "engines" to keep them from overheating - it invariably ended with an oily track and catastrophic skids across the room and into a wall.

 

[Archie]

We had an old F1 set with a picture of Jackie Stewart on the box. You had to pour oil drops in the "engines" to keep them from overheating - it invariably ended with an oily track and catastrophic skids across the room and into a wall.

these things were always fucked up one way or another within 1 week by my 2 brothers and I

 

[Mudcat]

Table hockey was something we would keep coming back to. I remember we would go on big Yahtzee kicks sometimes. And Monopoly (although I kind of hated it). The Game of Life. Stock Ticker. Masterpiece.

As for the direction betplom took it talking about the bowling alley - pinball was my thing. I was big on pinball.

 

[rjt721]

I must come clean and admit the real purpose of this thread. Had nothing to do with toys and childhood. Was merely an attempt to make Mudcat feel old.

Mission accomplished.

 

[Matty]

Can't believe I forgot about table hockey. Mastering the winger-to-center one-timer is a rite of passage around these parts.

 

[InTheHole]

I like the AFX Matty!

 

[Matty]

Air hockey? Pfft.

I wanna buy a worn-down Super Chexx machine one of these days.

 

[Mudcat]

I must come clean and admit the real purpose of this thread. Had nothing to do with toys and childhood. Was merely an attempt to make Mudcat feel old.

Mission accomplished.

Yeah well fuck youse all. We had some cool stuff in my day.

 

[InTheHole]

I had the non-dome american aversion of hockey

 

[Immortality]

When I was a little kid I remember loving these two toys

As I got older, it was all about the video game systems. Atari and eventually Nintendo.

 

[InTheHole]

That shit is hott immor

 

[tltaylor89]

Supersoaker and Playboy magazine

 

[rjt721]

Big Wheel: