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inspired by the sweets nostalgia thread, what games do you remember playing when you were a kid?

http://us.st4.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/boardgames_1830_27209502
anyone remember Hungry Hippos?

Transformer toys. :)

One of my father's friends bought me a very realistic cap gun for christmas once. It looked just like a colt 1911. I also had a nice lever action rifle that looked almost real. I haven't seen realistic looking cap guns lately. Kids nowadays are really missing out.

I remember having these really cool large (about 6" tall) GI soldiers with movable arms (well the arms spun round). You could stick them on a plastic rock and push a lever at the bottom and they would slowly spin round with a farting noise that was, I assume, meant to be their weapons firing.
They only wore army boots, green combat trousers and flak jacket. The clothes were green rubber, while the arms, head and body were plastic. All had really muscly arms and chest forcing itself through the cut-off jacket for some reason (no doubt to stop fathers thinking their sons were gay for playing with dolls - though when you think about it, surely your son playing with a muscle-man doll is more disturbing than a Barbie doll) and came with different weapons. I had a Bazooka guy, a guy throwing a grenade, one with a machine guy, a seargeant with a pistol and my favourite - one with a flamethrower (who I ended up setting on fire - he let of a lovely toxic blue flame and dense black smoke. Damn VCs had attacked him from the rear and punctured his fuel tank, poor guy. Grenade man avenged his death and took them out).
I think they were Vietnam war soldier toys, so were only around in the early 70's and disappeared shortly after I was old enough to get pocket money and start buying them.

One of my father's friends bought me a very realistic cap gun for christmas once. It looked just like a colt 1911. I also had a nice lever action rifle that looked almost real. I haven't seen realistic looking cap guns lately. Kids nowadays are really missing out.
The cap guns are crap looking nowadays to probably to keep kids from being shot by over-zealous cops or paranoid homeowners.

I had a "Hungry Hungry Hippos" set, but didn't use it much.

What I remember most is the Apple IIe computer at home that I used to play games on.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation

Hungry Hunry Hippos (http://us.st4.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/boardgames_1830_27209502)
anyone remember Hungry Hippos?
Yes!


I still have my "My little pony" toys too as well as popples and teenage mutant ninja turtle action figures...

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I had a "Hungry Hungry Hippos" set, but didn't use it much.

What I remember most is the Apple IIe computer at home that I used to play games on.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation
An apple anything :eek:

Cog you are my hero for the day. If you are on an apple now, you will be promoted to hero of the week.

Yes!


I still have my "My little pony" toys too as well as popples and teenage mutant ninja turtle action figures...

I actually had a popple too.......
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...explains alot of things :D

I had some really cool building toys. They were long bars, and wheels, and cockpits. Not very many combinatations, but lots of fun. Connected with little hexagons sockets/extrusions. I can't remember for the life of me what they were called. I had another cool building toy I don't remember much about at all, I just saw one of the guns in the lego's last time I was home.

The Nintendo Entertainment System, more commonly known as "Famicom" on this side of the planet. Didn't appreciate it much until around the time I bought PlayStation2, though. Dad bought the Famicom during one of his business trips to Japan, and it was a pain to hook up the console to the TV - remember that it was the late 80's! LOL...

hungry hungry hippos
pokemon
those spinny things
and other stuff
SONIC original
italia 90 football
mario 1 where you could only go right and jump on the NES not the SNES the NES
my friend has a Game and Watch
I am a LEGO FREAK who wants a lego thread , i'll take pics of mine


and more

LEGO!

Need I say more?

My friend had Lincoln Logs and an Erector Set that I loved to play with. The toys that I had that I remember the most were a gas station (late 1940's) and cap guns. Great going to the movies on Sat. and watching 12 cartoons and a western, then coming home and playing Cowboys until suppertime.

does anyone remember something called Busy Busy Bumblebees or something like that? i don't really remember what you did in it, i just remember me, my brother and my sister running around with things strapped to our heads pretending to be bees

inspired by the sweets nostalgia thread, what games do you remember playing when you were a kid?

http://us.st4.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/boardgames_1830_27209502
anyone remember Hungry Hippos?

OMG HUNGRY HIPPOS WAS THE SHIT!!!! i LOVED THAT GAME!!! :p :p :p

for me, childhood consisted of transformers, star wars plastic toys, cowboys and indians, and one of my friend's dads made these totally bitchin imitation proton packs (like in ghostbusters) so we would play with those a lot. man, those were the days/ ;) :)

edit: and of course, LEGOS!!!!!!

LEGO!

Need I say more?
yes, you forgot the "S" in Legos. :D

does anyone remember something called Busy Busy Bumblebees or something like that? i don't really remember what you did in it, i just remember me, my brother and my sister running around with things strapped to our heads pretending to be bees
I remember seeing commercials for them.

I think the idea was to pick up 'pollen' with the headband thingy and bring it back to a certain place.

yes, you forgot the "S" in Legos. :D

We couldn't afford 's' in Britian during the 80's ;)

(Honestly though, it is just Lego in Britain)

Shogun Warriors!!!! (http://www.wildtoys.com/Shogun/index.asp)

Lego absolutly ruled.

I still play with it :p

Subeutio, Scaletrix and Transformers also ruled teh underworld :D

Legos.

Lego absolutly ruled.

I still play with it :p

Subeutio, Scaletrix and Transformers also ruled teh underworld :D
I never understood Subuteo, I played it a couple of times but never found it very interesting.

Scalectrix was more of an exercise in keeping the cars on the track more then anything else (especailly sharp bends.)

Inspired by the quest to find 'Fizzers' in another thread...

inspired by the sweets nostalgia thread
Now someone has to make a thread inspired by this one. :p

does anyone remember something called Busy Busy Bumblebees or something like that? i don't really remember what you did in it, i just remember me, my brother and my sister running around with things strapped to our heads pretending to be bees
LOL, I remember the ads for them. Like yourself, I don't remember exactly what you did, but I do recall the theme tune for the thing :)

Also, Lego, My Little Pony (!), Transformer toys, Scaletrix, model railway set (! again) plus my Commodore 64 - when I got that, everything else was forgotten about. The Little Pony thingies were the only really 'girly' thing I really played with - computer games were, and still are, my passion ;)

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Stompers!!

Starwars action figures, batman action figures and LEGOS!!! so many legos and my parents whould yell when ever they stepped on any.... heehee

Weebles!! (http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/weebleindex.shtml)

I am really tempted to say Lawn Darts but I never had any, they just looked awful fun.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000A9YBR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Shrinky Dinks!! (http://www.shrinkydinks.com/)

Lite-Brite!!! (http://www.sfpg.com/animation/liteBrite.html#)

Okay, I'll stop now with the toys from back when toys kinda sucked, otherwise known as my childhood. But you really should follow that link, it's a Lite-Brite Simulator, how cool is that?

Lite-Brite!!! (http://www.sfpg.com/animation/liteBrite.html#)

Okay, I'll stop now with the toys from back when toys kinda sucked, otherwise known as my childhood. But you really should follow that link, it's a Lite-Brite Simulator, how cool is that?
I had a lite-brite. It was fun. That web page rocks :fluffle:

who remembers

http://images.cabbagepatchkids.com/images/babies/tmk458.jpg

CABBAGE PATCH DOLLS!?!? my sister had one and i hated it cause they're uber freaky so i cut it up and threw it in the bin then blamed it on my brother

who remembers

CABBAGE PATCH DOLLS!?!? my sister had one and i hated it cause they're uber freaky so i cut it up and threw it in the bin then blamed it on my brother

:eek:
That's evil, I never thought you had it in you (not that I blame you though)

:eek:
That's evil, I never thought you had it in you (not that I blame you though)
the nice, sweet image is just a cover so i can do evil things and no one suspects me

the nice, sweet image is just a cover so i can do evil things and no one suspects me
Like cats.

Matchbox cars & Lego were my faves. I always wanted a Scalectrix set, but never had one. :(

My favourite was the NES or the little plastic fishy game that spun around and the fish opened their mouths and you had to hook them with the four different coloured rods.

I played a lot on my Commodore 64, and later I got into legos and stuff. WHen I was real little, I loved playing with Hot Wheels and MicroMachines. I must have been really easy to entertain.

Whenever I was with friends my age, it was almost inevitable that we'd end up playing "house". Since I was the oldest boy, I always was the husband, so I'd go off to "work" and ditch everyone so I could play with what I wanted. Did anyone else play house?