The ghost of Christmas past

[InsaneApache]

I'm probably quite a bit older than most .organs, but I'm sure many of you will remember some of these. It would be interesting to see how many of these products reached around the world.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=13505

hf....:elephant:

BTW my all time favourite when I was a nipper was the 'spud' gun....truly a classic

[Sjakihata]

I sure remember #2 and #1

actually, I remember some of those - but Im sure some didnt make it to Denmark, like the testmatch cricket set..

[Ser Clegane]

*wipes tear from eye*

Ahh ... the memories


Actually I feel kinda old now :brood:

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

That's excellent. I had some of them when I was little but others are old enough that I received hand me down versions from uncles(who had received them as gifts when little).

[Beirut]

I had all the original GI Joes. The best of all of them was the spacesuit GI Joe with the Mercury space capsule.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/horsesass/joespace.jpg

Ser Clegane is right, almost bring a tear to my eye.

[Craterus]

I'm 15, and I remember 97 (Weebels?) and 96 (Test Cricket). My grandma even has number 88 (the hedgehog).

Guess Who? was a great game.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I remember 'Guess Who?' from playing when I was like 6...~:joker:

[Togakure]

Rubik's Cube, Mastermind (loved this one; though I wasn't that great at it), Walkie-Talkies (had several different pairs over time), Sorry, Viewmaster (had a bunch of discs for this; my favorites were about dinosaurs), Tonka Trucks (lots of these), Twister (oh yeah! had LOTS of fun with this game), Kerplunk (a family favorite when we got together for Xmas and Thanksgiving), radio-controlled car, silly putty (ya!), Operation, DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS (spent 37 days of my senior year in high school playing this instead of attending classes; I still passed), Tasco telescope, Sea Monkeys (Whoa! Flashbacks ...), and numero uno indeed: a bicycle.

I remember most my Big Wheel, Spirograph and Slinky, chord organ (which led to a dozen or so years of serious classical piano study, which led to another dozen years of rock n roll), and, of course oodles and oodles of Legos.

[Steppe Merc]

I rember Zoids and Transformers...

And of course, those board games like Connect 4 (how dumb is that?) and Guess Who (the band should have sued)...

Ah Silly Putty... I always played with it at my Grandma and Grandpas house...


although such was the magnitude of Transformers-mania that there was even an animated feature film, boasting the disparate vocal talents of Orson Welles and Eric Idle
Wait, Eric Idle was in that? ~:eek:

[Tribesman]

I'm probably quite a bit older than most .organs, but I'm sure many of you will remember some of these.
The majority of those are still in the shops today , though they have changed a few little details , like not having the gear stick on the Chopper in a position where it could damage your prospects of ever having children .

[Papewaio]

I had the Merlin... it was quite a good gadget for its time.

I setup a siren sequence on it and set it off while dad was driving. He was looking around for the cops ~D

Dungeons and Dragons

Chutes Away

And of course a bike.

[Kagemusha]

I had a wiew master when i was a child. I used it so much that it broke,and i didnt get new one.~:mecry:

[Somebody Else]

I've had some many of those, or had friends with them...

I still have a spud gun - I like to terrorise my flatmates with it.

[English assassin]

Pocketeers ! I used to love them. Clockwork Gameboys, what twisted genius would have thought of it?

I wonder if I could find one anywhere. It would be a handy thing to have when Assassin Junior complains about not having the latest Nintendo megathing. "Eee, when i were a lad..." etc.

I could get computer battleships out of my mums loft too, huh, that should shut up any complaints about the slightly less than perfect graphics on MTW III (the computer battleship's AI would still be far superior though)