So what are your favourite childhood toys/games?

Great thread!

Action Man and Action Jack
He-Man dolls
Evil Knievel with a kind of generator that you'd rev up so he'd speed off

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moodymick said:
Ditto. I didn't have it, a mate did. My parents wouldn't buy stuff like that in case it ruined my eyesight - or some such bollocks.
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LOL!,I was lucky,my parents didn't give a damn if it kept me out of their hair!,I think they thought the day they got me a 48k Spectrum was the best investment of their lives,I cannot remember seeing them at all after February 1983 (13th birthday)...I got a Ferguson B&W TV for Christmas '82,so I am sure they had it all planned!.Maybe I just pissed them off,keep creeping downstairs to watch the horror film double bill on BBC2 every Saturday night....
 
grarea said:
Oh yes. That one was an exciting one.
Until you played it.
My first insight into being sold an idea rather than a good thing.
(there haven't been many since)
It was fun for the first couple of goes, but far too easy.
I seem to remember messing about with the catapult mechanism quite a lot though.
Was pretty strong.
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Catapults....Remember the Black Widow?....I was never allowed one,so as an adult.....

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LOL!.
 
I used to play a lot of board games with my brother and sister back in the pre-computer age. Most were by Waddingtons. Apart from Monopoly, the ones that stick in my mind are:

Careers
Totopoly
Railroader
Spy Ring
Scoop!
Mouse Trap
Exploration
Wild Life
Mine A Million
Go!

And there are doubtless others I've forgotten.
 
Meccano
Lego
A ball of either shape.

I have never owned or used a computer game. As a kid I was too busy building stuff or playing football or rugby or anything else that got me out in the fresh air. My mum used to see me at 8am, about noon for lunch, 5 pm for tea and then when it got dark and never worried one bit.
 
David68 said:
Meccano
Lego
A ball of either shape.

I have never owned or used a computer game. As a kid I was too busy building stuff or playing football or rugby or anything else that got me out in the fresh air. My mum used to see me at 8am, about noon for lunch, 5 pm for tea and then when it got dark and never worried one bit.
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Yup; it's sad to see how our society has degenerated. The more people go on about 'staying safe', etc. the less safe society is. I was brought up in a country that didn't have television so we were forced to entertain ourselves; at boarding school we had to play a sport every day except Saturday (unless you were on a school team playing that day).
 
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