What do you remember?

[gregm]

this sound and this screen

Loads of Pink floyd,steely dan, southern rock, 70s jazz fusion , Todd rundgren,muscle cars, station wagons with wood siding- where woodgrain siding was part of the "luxury" package.

cool basements, cool basement bars where we would steal liquor,lava lamps, cool electronics

lunch boxes,cereal, Saturday morning cartoons

my old bell bottoms with rolling stones patches

the forgotten beauty of van art lol, chicanos

albums, awesome klipsch speakers, great stereo equipment

 

[kato]

great album, aja

 

[RayRay]

if i had one of those old football games, i would still play it daily

 

[Gilmartin]

If anyone remembers this, I will be highly impressed

 

[Gilmartin]

I would always yell at the TV when they had to put those pole things on the map

 

[FairWarning]

Kiss pinball
Tabletop hockey with the slides, similar to foosball
Simon
3-D baseball cards in Kellogs cereal

 

[reno cool]

Ihad the commodore 64

a basketball/ ship shooting one, in the style of the football game mentioned

Younger still in the USSR I had a table hockey game and table soccer game where you pull the heads of the players to move the ball.

our first car was

which was :

and our first new car was

which was piece of crap

 

[FairWarning]

What year did you move here Reno?

 

[Blitty]

I would always yell at the TV when they had to put those pole things on the map

Carmen San Diego.


I would have never traveled outside my county if for not this show..

 

[kato]

If anyone remembers this, I will be highly impressed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnet

loved mathnet

 

[reno cool]

What year did you move here Reno?

late 1980

 

[betplom]

 

[FairWarning]

The older posters will remember the Viewmaster.

 

[betplom]

 

[Matty]

I had that thing plommer, loved it. But my fave pre-NES toy ever has to be the Donkey Kong mini arcade machine:

 

[Matty]

The older posters will remember the Viewmaster.

They still make those. The receptionist at work has a collection of 1000's of disks, and one of our ad agencies made a viewer/disk combo to promote their services last year.

Timeless shit.

 

[mrquincy]

 

[Matty]

Super Chexx! When I turn into a lame suburban dad, I'm going to have a Super Chexx machine in my basement, next to my 9ft pool table.