Toys of Your Childhood

[Solid Lifters]

I can remember the fun I had with my toys. But, it's hard to remember them all. Here where some of my favorites growing up.

Check out this website to spot some of yours. http://feelingretro.com/70sites.cfm

Awesome shooting gallery game I'd play for hours. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's no wonder why I love guns so much. Blame it all on Magic Shot Shooting Gallery. Love the mullet, BTW.

My brother had Sit N' Spin, but I played with it more than him. No, that's not my brother...

You could sound like a motorcycle, while running around like a idiot. R-R-R-Raw Power =Fun times.

I know, Wizzzer was a pretty stupid name for a toy, but that didn't stop me from playing with it for hours.

I remember Star Wars Trading Cards, Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages and Odd Rods.

God, I loved my Evil Knievel Stunt Cycle Jump Set. I still have the action figures, and my sons play with them. The launcher, bike and trailer are long gone.

Just for the hell of it, here's Scratch N' Sniff Stickers.

 

[Duke]

I didn't have any of those as a kid... but I know plenty of kids who did! I also never had:

A Bigwheel (which, incidentally, came with a handbrake, so you could do FWD drifts back in 1970 - take that, Dorimaniacs)...

I did have Whizzers, but I preferred my SSPs:

I also had a ton of the old fuzzy-head, big GI Joe stuff - even before Kung Fu Grip That yellow vehicle decoupled, and opened up into a HQ trailer. If you flipped the windshield over and put a couple Joes in, it made an awesome sled in the winter:

I also had a ton of Hot Wheels, including this one:

 

[Danoff]

This spans over a decade:

Crossfire

Fireball Island

Gameboy

NES

SNES

Intellivision

Monopoly

Micro Machines!!!

GI JOE

Magic

D&D

Vampire

Werewolf

Garbage Pale Kids (man I had no taste)

and my all time favorite:

Straight up wooden blocks.

 

[Jondot]

I was one for matchbox and hotwheels cars. Actually, most things car related. I had a train set too (wind up them with a little key), and when i was older the proper electric hornby stuff. I didn't mind lego, but i prefered cars.

One of my favourite matchbox cars being this ford mondeo. Yeah, i was pretty lame.

I had some larger stuff too. I had this tractor thing with pedals. Drove the neighbors mad since the tyres were made of solid plastic and it sounded like someone mixing cement when i pedalled up the street on it.

 

[Anderton Prime]

Here comes the first post to NOT have pictures for every toy.

I loved Thundercats, Transformers, M.A.S.K., of COURSE I had a Big Wheel (mine was a Knight Rider one, but the plastic rear wheels got cracks in them and the whole thing fell apart eventually). In fact, thinking back, there's a reason Big Wheels aren't made anymore. Can any of you who actually had a Big Wheel as a kid and now drive a car comprehend how dangerous those things were? A kid travelling 2-3 inches off the ground darting out into the street from behind parked cars (come on, you all know you rode those things without any eye for esfety, thinking your street was your racetrack, going wherever you wanted)? I'm sure some kids got killed / hit by cars while riding those things, and thus they are no longer manufactured today. Oh well, today's kids' loss I guess! Imagine, we (kids who grew up in the 70s and 80s) are the only generation to be able to say we had a Big Wheel as a kid.

I also loved Go-Bots, G.I. Joe, Hot Wheels, Buck Rogers, and Captain Planet, the precursor to InTelevision and Atari, and some would say the original video game...

 

[Carl.]

#1: Lego.

(My first set is on the lower left corner)

(My favorite)

#2: NES with Super Mario 3 and Final Fantasy (had mine quite late... )

#3: G.I. Joe

My 2 favorite ones, had great saturday morning naval battles:

#4 Micro Machines

#5 R/C Sprint car

(had a cheaper one though)

#6 Labyrinth

(endless hours of frustration...)

 

[DuckRacer]

Me?

Well, Hotwheels, the Gameboy, and Legos, legos, legos. I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of any more right now.

 

[HondaRacer]

Hotwheels, Legos, and electric trains. When I was really little, I played with Brio wooden train sets. Those things were the BEST! I still have a ton of 'em lying around somewhere. I also had one of these...

So much fun in my tiny backyard! As you can see I've always been into cars 👍

 

[James2097]

Lego lego lego.... fav toy. Normal town lego (regular looking cars, houses etc), loads of "space" lego, "castle" lego (castles, battering rams, siege towers etc), and LOADS of tecnik (spelling?) lego (much much more interesting to make loads of differnet things... wired radio control cars etc (2 motors to drive, one motor to steer ). Lego was the best toy ever made.

Transformers, Matchbox cars (much better quality than hotwheels die-cast cars - they always had new ones at the newsagent - I would nag to get one anytime I went in there...), those great 80s Metro Radio Control cars (my bro had one too so we could race them!! ), AFX slot-cars (had Thunderloop Thriller and a few extra cars and bits of track), and later I got waaaay too into making paper planes (I have some amazing original designs in my head still - I REALLY kick arse at making paper planes... perhaps I might write a book sometime... ), riding BMX/mountain bikes a LOT being all crazy on them (lots of scraped knees/elbows!), making things in my Dad's shed (billy carts, grass sleds etc - super fun! (but I never got to make a go-cart with an engine... so regret not doing that)), making balsa-wood gliders, buying lots of kits for making planes (lots of rubber-band powered ones)..., Tamiya "Avanti" Radio Control Car (great fun drifting (before I knew what drifting was) on the slidey gravel around my parents place!! - it amazingly still works... totally bald tires though!), listening to walkmans/radio...

Computer games were always there - my Dad first had a Mac Plus (we're a Mac household - much to my annoyance upon playing Crazy-Cars III on a mate's 286 PC!). But, on the Mac, Dark Castle was awesome, Prince of Persia, Spectre (early black and white version! argh!), and a bucketload of small shareware games...
Then my dad upgraded to an LC575 (first Mac with a CD drive built in!), played loads of Flashback, Prince of Persia 2, F/A18 Hornet (still my fav flight sim - the developer Graphic Simulations ROCK!), and (a new amazing dveloper "Bungie Software" game) MARATHON!! Marathon is still my favorite game ever made. We had both Doom and Doom2 as well, but Marathon was WAAY better (anyone who played it in the year both it and Doom came out will testify to this)... I always knew Bungie would find fame and fortune!


Then all the creative-brainy-makey stuff stopped completely (other than a 'just starting' interest in the guitar) when I bought a PlayStation1 with Porsche Challenge. Wow I thought that was realistic at the time! WipEout2097 (XL in America) was my second favorite game ever made (after Marathon). It was perfect in every way. Then Gran Turismo 1 and 2..., Driver 1 and 2.... etc etc. Mainly car games, with the odd great Namco fighter like Tekken or Soul Blade (now Soul Calibur).

Then I got more and more interested in guitar and when I bought a Squier Strat when I was about 14, after hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time - I was hooked for life.

I've always kept playing games, and got given an N64 (recovering in hospital after open heart surgery - that GoldenEye 007 sure took the pain away and kept me from thinking how sick I felt on morphine!), PS, PS2, PC, (starting playing IBM compatible games - first great one - Unreal Tournament 1 when I got a P3 866mhz PC to do CAD stuff for architecture at uni, then upgraded it to a P4 and a nice GFX card and a gig of RAM later on - my current PC still). XBOX was the last console I bought (for Halo and Halo2 ONLY - I have a massive love of Bungie since Marathon and its sequels). If Bungie ever did another Marathon game properly, I would faint right there... although Master Cheif is supposed to be the same hero as the marathon games apparently...

I'm eagerly looking forward to PS3 (and E3 in general) like a little kid... I haven't changed much really. Design work and guitar keeps my creative side happy, and lots of games (GT4!) for when I'm just lazy!

I simply can't believe anyone would really be interested in all the crap I've typed about my entertainments as a kid all the way to now... but there it is.

 

[Master_Yoda]

Legos like crazy.....
MicroMachines like crazy...(the military ones are collecters now, they don't make them, and have a whole lotta )
and toy cars like mad.... I was a sucker with anythign one wheels... still am

My parents called me "Hell on Wheels"

 

[Jay]

I had tons of Lego and played it all the time, alot Micro machines, heaps of Matchbox and Hot wheels cars (that I used to stupidly smash or paint when I was bored), toy guns, Atari 2600 and Commodore 64, some push and later pedal car that you get around on, action figures, so much more I could be here explaining for along time.