Toys! Remember when.....

[my miss storm cat]

Someone asked me today if I had ever played Mystery Date when i was a kid.....

Now I vaguely remember a board game with a door and three clean-cut guys and one loser type. I'm assuming he was the one i wanted to "date". Don't remember really..... I was very young and don't know if I played it or if the memory exists cause my older sister had it or what.

Anyway, between this conversation and the images of oracle in his plaid (sorry!) pants i got to thinking..... when you were a kid, what were some of your favorite games, toys, objects, tv shows?

Let's go back in time.....

I remember having Rockem Sockem robots and watching Lancelot Link Secret Chimp and I Dream of Jeannie.

[ArlJim78]

What I remember is how little boys were ripped off with football games.

There was one type that had a vibrating playing field with little plastic men on stands. It took forever to get all the men set up, and once you did you would turn on the switch for the vibration and they would all spin around in circles or head straight for the out of bounds. On the commercial it looked like they were actually running plays.

Then there was another one I had called foto-electric football. It was nothing but a carboard box with a lightbulb inside. then you put two paper cutouts (one for offense and one for defense) on top of the box and slowly pulled away the piece of carboard covering the light. The light illuminated the offense/defense plays and you were supposed to get excited by watching the lines. the biggest ripoff in history. On the commercial the kids were all screaming and jumping with excitement. Yeah right!

I don't remember that but I remember Lite Brite. I always wanted one but I got Barbies instead.

[ArlJim78]

Yeah I had Lite Brite. Also Linkin Logs.

It made me think of another one, Spirograph.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Yeah I had Lite Brite. Also Linkin Logs.

It made me think of another one, Spirograph.

Ooooh, Lincoln Logs!

They were invented by Frank Llyod Wrights son.

Wanna play?

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by six perfections

I don't remember that but I remember Lite Brite. I always wanted one but I got Barbies instead.

I never had barbies..... not one.

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Someone asked me today if I had ever played Mystery Date when i was a kid.....

Now I vaguely remember a board game with a door and three clean-cut guys and one loser type. I'm assuming he was the one i wanted to "date". Don't remember really..... I was very young and don't know if I played it or if the memory exists cause my older sister had it or what.

Anyway, between this conversation and the images of oracle in his plaid (sorry!) pants i got to thinking..... when you were a kid, what were some of your favorite games, toys, objects, tv shows?

Let's go back in time.....

I don't really remember playing with too many toys as a kid(we were considered poor). I grew up in Kidsville USA (La Puente Calif ) around the time people were putting bomb shelters in their back yards around 1962. I remember watching Bonanza in color, thats how far I go back. Red Skelton Hour and Dick Lane covering Roller Derby

[whorstman]

Oh my God. Hot wheels!! Baddest 69 camaro ever! GI Joe was the sh1t, Transformers. Anything Star wars!! I was an action figure junkie. Had some rock em sock em toys too. Man, I could go on and on. I LOVED toys as a kid. Army men, setting them up and having battles in the sand. Evil Knievel bike that had a zip tie thing that NEVER worked!!! I couldn't jump that SON OF A B1TCH fo nothing, always fell over. Of course I couldn't leave out Legos! Can I toss out PLAY DOE? FUZZY PUMPER BARBER? WOW, I want to be a kid again, I may be a little sad now.

[GPK]

how about the following:

Operation
Chutes and Ladders
Big Wheels (everyone owned one of those, right?)
Connect Four
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Silly Putty
Transformers
My Buddy ( come on..sing it..."My Buddy....My Buddy....My Buddy and me )
Tonka trucks

[somerfrost]

Well, lets see......I had one of those vibrating football games, also a horse racing one, and an auto racing one. little felt ball...kicker was spring loaded. Lots of toy guns, toy soldiers. My favorite TV show was "Winky Dink"...they sent you this clear plastic sheet which stuck to the TV by static electricity and you used crayons to draw houses, walls etc for Winky...really cool! Sling shot...got in all kinds of trouble with that! Collecting Baseball cards....those were the days!

[timmgirvan]

Only really neat toy I remember was these wind-up race cars called Ronco racers...Metal bodies with real rubber wheels....THEY HAULED ASS! Other than that...if it was daylight I was playing ball or shooting marbles..or building a serious treehouse...sigh....life was so much simpler then,eh?

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by GPK

how about the following:

Operation
Chutes and Ladders
Big Wheels (everyone owned one of those, right?)
Connect Four
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Silly Putty
Transformers
My Buddy ( come on..sing it..."My Buddy....My Buddy....My Buddy and me )
Tonka trucks

I've come full circle Kev. I now play Chutes and Ladders with my daughters. Yes, it is still around.

Operation was awesome. Spent way too much childhood time working on that funny bone.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I've come full circle Kev. I now play Chutes and Ladders with my daughters. Yes, it is still around.

Operation was awesome. Spent way too much childhood time working on that funny bone.

I spend way too much time now working on my funny bone....oh wait...we are speaking of a different funny bone...LMFAO

[brockguy]

LEGO - what time I enjoyed with it!