i encourage you all to post with some of your favorites
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I never heard of those two sorry but maybe in Australia we only get the reject stuff.
Scalectrix - racing cars. I had a ridiculous amount of this stuff as a kid.
Rubik's Cube - I still have a brand new one in the display box, never opened.
Jet Hopper - I had one of these until some other kid put a steel bull bar on his suped up remote control car and T-boned mine.
Smurf figurines - I only got 3 left but my mate has hundreds.
Totem tennis - long gone, who knows what happened to that.
Trivial pursuit '86 edition genus - questions are impossible.
Tiddlywinks
I had shotgun cap guns. They were awesome.
My mate still has a rubber band gun that he bought in the 80's and still uses it regularly to shoot flies in the lounge room. He's a crack shot. This is the same guy who has the smurfs.
Marbles - still have a small collection, of a once great society.
All I can think of for now, but will add more as discussion opens up a bit.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
Lawn Darts with the metal tips
i dont know when they stopped making them that way, but man did i stayed amused many a afternoon in the backyard
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
Popoids:
I used to have hours of fun playing with these things..Sure, Legos were still better..but these things were a hoot too.
[ 04. July 2011, 13:12: Message edited by: Pyro ]
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Recently got a Merlin at a yard sale for $1...came with the box, which was a bit beat up, but also had the instructions. I didn't have one as a kid, but remember some friends having one. Put the batteries in and it works like a charm. I like having little pieces of 80's history...brings back good memories....
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
pyro, i completly forgot about those until you posted this, you ever have a lot of long forgotten memories shoot back into your head all at once.
how could i forget about these
Posted by johnny76 (Member # 8174) on :
I remember being in kindergarten and wanting the "Mickey Mouse Talking Telephone". I was thoroughly convinced that the Disney characters were really there and ready for a conversation !!! Ah to be young again...
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Trouble in addition to Double Trouble.
I would play the former when I was at primary school.
Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pyro: Popoids:
I used to have hours of fun playing with these things..Sure, Legos were still better..but these things were a hoot too.
what the hell is this Pyro???
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
just another marketing ploy to mold 80's kids into future engineers Willy..lol.
Here's the old commercial, should give you a better idea of how easily amused us kids were in the 80's.
Computer Battleship to say nothing of It's A Knockout.
I can recollect the commercials for the former.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: SIMON - do they still have this?
It would appear that they are still available.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
how about doorways to adventure, the vcr board game, how many people have played it and enjoyed it?
Posted by gotta go back (Member # 9818) on :
Great find Kevdog especially with the box and Instructions, I would love to own a Merlin.
How about the Mattel sports games. I still own my Mattel Footbal II from the late 70's.
A happy owner of an original Simon in the box and a handheld. I saw a SuperSimon the other day, I do not remember them, it was the 1st I ever saw. A similar game was what I had as a kid called EINSTEIN.
Rubiks Cube Snake
Anyone remember the handheld Redline drag race game by kenner?
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