Your Favorite Throwback Toy as a Kid...

[marquise1911]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

We had spoon fights all the way through high school, IIRC.

Hahaha! I knew I wasn't the only one!

[sAKAsfaction]

I looooooooved my glow worm (the orgininal of course). What can I say, I'm a yungin!



Also crushed soda cans on the back of me and my friends' bicycles.
We felt so cool ridin around like we were tough... till the street lights came on.

[luvmypearls]

I remember have the Bionic Woman playset which included Jamie Summers and some type of tech/command center that had wires that would connect her bionic parts to it. I also had the Farrah Fawcett styling head doll. It came with make up and hair dye.

I remember making a Chinese rope out of rubberbands and you needed at least three people to play (because there was only two of us, a chair would sometimes suffice). I remember when a simple "wire" clothesline was all we needed and we would jump rope (double dutch) from sun up to sun down. I don't remember stopping to eat lunch or anything else.

Things I never got:

1. I always wanted pom poms on my roller skates.
2. I always wanted a basket on the front of my bike and streamers on the handle bars.
3. I never got those Wonder Woman Under Roos (still remind my mother about that one and I think I need therapy to work out my issues).

Question: Did anyone collect soda can tabs and if so, why?

[lilbay77]

^^^^
I loved chinese jumprope!
Jacks
Hungry Hungry Hippo
Operation
Easy Bake Oven
Litebrite
Pogoball
Y'all remember these plastic charm necklaces from the 80's?

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by sAKAsfaction

I looooooooved my glow worm (the orgininal of course). What can I say, I'm a yungin!



Also crushed soda cans on the back of me and my friends' bicycles.
We felt so cool ridin around like we were tough... till the street lights came on.

I still have my original glow worm!

[RedAngel]

My favorite throwback toys were from the 70s.
Baby Chrissy
There was one doll that used to ride her bike on her own.
Chinese checkers
Monopoly
Anything that involved Scooby Doo.

[nonchalant]

Originally Posted by KAPPAtivating

Random thought...I have been wondering this for a while...what does ETA mean? By the way...Atarie (sp?) was the lick too with Donkey Kong and Qubert.

Oh yes!! I've always loved my video games. I had the Atari 2600. I also had Donkey Kong and Q-Bert. I had the following games too: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pitfall, Centipede, Millipede, Pole Position, and the list would keep going. I had over 50 games.

[KAPPAtivating]

Originally Posted by nonchalant

Oh yes!! I've always loved my video games. I had the Atari 2600. I also had Donkey Kong and Q-Bert. I had the following games too: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pitfall, Centipede, Millipede, Pole Position, and the list would keep going. I had over 50 games.

Ms. Pac-Man was the hood game of the century! We took that game seriously!

[black_princess]

I loved my:

1:My original Nintendo (still remember the night my dad brought it home and set it up)
2:Black Cabage patch doll (original 1984 version w/ the nappy hair . . I got as a baby & still have it)
3: Skip it (elementary school)

But what I always (and still am bitter) about was the fact that at 4 or 5 I was too tall for the electronic Barbie convertable / jeep . . .the 1 that had the battery, gas pedal, and steering wheel to drive. I loooooved that toy and I wanted 1 sooo bad . No matter how hard my mom tried to explain that my "legs were just to long to fit" I would whine everytime we passed one in the store . . i still get excited when I see 1 now

[nonchalant]

Originally Posted by KAPPAtivating

Ms. Pac-Man was the hood game of the century! We took that game seriously!

Most definitely. I currently have Ms. Pac-Man on the SNES. My friends and I were playing it a few weeks ago.

Originally Posted by black_princess

I loved my:

1:My original Nintendo (still remember the night my dad brought it home and set it up)

Oh yes. I had that system too. I gave the first model away when I got the 2nd model that came out.

Originally Posted by sAKAsfaction

I looooooooved my glow worm (the orgininal of course). What can I say, I'm a yungin!

I remember glow worm. I had one of those too.

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by sAKAsfaction

I looooooooved my glow worm (the orgininal of course). What can I say, I'm a yungin!

never did get the one i wanted as a child but for my daughters first christmas, my parents got her one! i almost cried when i took it out the box, and they had to remind me it was for her and not me.

i have issues that need to be worked out over a barbie house and little tykes kitchen. my best friend had one and hardly touched it. i used to lust over it and always wanted to play with it when i went over but she paid it no mind. to this day, i still want that kitchen...

[pinkies up]

Originally Posted by lilbay77

^^^^

Y'all remember these plastic charm necklaces from the 80's?

OMG!!!! WHY did my mom keep my bracelet??!!! I have given it to my 4 year old and she thinks it' the bomb. (she does let me rock it occasionally...)

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by luvmypearls

Question: Did anyone collect soda can tabs and if so, why?

To make a necklace out of, of course!! For awhile, it was cool to see how many you could get on your chain...and colored ones (coke had red ones for awhile) counted extra!!!