Toys we use to play when we were a kid

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Andrew Muir
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:arrow: Screwball Scramble (TOMY) - Think they still make this one, I still have the original.
:arrow: Domino Rally - The one with the rocket.
:arrow: Mouse Trap - Of course!
:arrow: Sega GameGear - I have 2, and I'm still waiting for them to be worth a lot of money so that I can flog em on eBay!
Unfortunalty the're still going for aroung £30.
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mikejprz
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:arrow: Frustration

:arrow: Donkey Kong computer game (handheld)

:arrow: Care Bears (I had the one with the Shamrock)

:arrow: Transformers (Robots in disguise!)

:arrow: Buck-A-Roo

:arrow: Operation

:arrow: He-Man figures!

Can you tell I'm gay?? :D
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Still
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russnet wrote:
Still wrote:Plus something I couldn't find a picture of - made by Tomy, it was a little arcade thingy the shape of the bonnet of a porsche 911. Just above the steering wheel was a little green window which showed you the upcoming road and some threatening fur trees. Impossible to crash, I can't imagine how it can have been any fun at all.
Do you mean one of these babies?...

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There it is! Wow.
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russnet
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That's on Ebay too :-)
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Eh, my cousin had one of those Tomy Turbo things, I was well jealous :)

Right, a rough list of what toys I had when I was a kid:

:arrow: Fisher Price garage (as most young lads probably had)
:arrow: A wooden car garage made by some old bloke in County Tyrone (I think)
:arrow: Loads and loads of toy cars
:arrow: Playmobil (I had the playground, hospital and school sets)
:arrow: Lego (got my first Lego kit for Christmas '87, collected it for about 10 years, still used it to create mock TV set designs up until a few months ago!)
:arrow: Almost every board game conceivable: The Dublin version of Monopoly, Scrabble (but all the letters went missing), Pop Up Pirate (never worked), Operation, Guess Who, Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right... even the Challenge Anneka board game!)
:arrow: A racing car set, not Scalectrix but a good alternative)

Also inherited Star Wars stuff and Domino Rally from my brother...

In terms of computers

:arrow: August 1987-around 1990: ZX Spectrum+
:arrow: December 1990-around 1995: Commodore C64 (still in the house but broke)
:arrow: March 1993 to date: Sega Mega Drive (can't believe Argos are selling Mega Drive emulators for £20 with Sonic 1 and other games!!! I saved up about £125 for my MD!!!)
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Johnny
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Ghostbusters toys:- including all four ghostbusters, ghostbusters house, car, monsters (or ghost as they would be)

Transformers:- Octomus Prime (sp) (also lost back half), & several others

Turtles:- all four (these belong to me younger brother)

The Fisher Price garage

Loads of Board games including:- Monopoly (london version & world cup 98), mouse trap, blockbusters (with cnetral logo on side, the moon not the ckae so you can tell how old that was), wheel of fortune, connect four, bed bugs, etc.)


Most now either up in the loft or sadly thrown away.
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Used to love it. Can't find a decent pic of it tho.
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Jamez
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fusionlad wrote:Image

Used to love it. Can't find a decent pic of it tho.
OMG!

I had one of those! I used to love it! I had loads of toy cars I used to play with.

I also loved Lego. I bought the Lego Police Headquarters with my birthday money about 12 years ago. I soon modified the police station into some BBC studios though! :lol:
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Jamez
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Anyone else have a Lights Alive thingy? You've have a little stick and push it into lots of holes to reveal the lights or something.
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Dr Lobster*
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as a child i never really played with toys - i used to like taking things apart (tellies, radios, videos etc) to see how they worked and then make them work without the shell on.

in my later years (10-15) i used to dabble with video games (loved the sega megadrive) and write programs for my commodore 64.
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Jamez:
"Anyone else have a Lights Alive thingy? You've have a little stick and push it into lots of holes to reveal the lights or something."

I had that as well, except I lost all the pieces and had to be stopped using a cocktail stick to punch the holes in again :)
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