Toys of your youth

This one.

& this one were my favourites!

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f240/338340d1329265737-i-love-football-panini_mexico86_tuete.jpg

Completed that sticker album - had Pique the mascot too, stood on my drawers alongside all my Star Wars figures and vehicles.

As the last post of the evening, now my head's full of this I'll drift back years when I shut my eyes.

should I admit to this?

only cos I fancied jet.

This was ok. A bit underpowered though..

Underpowered? Mine was a beast! I used to set up insane climbing tasks for it. The front couple of axles were suspended so that it could span a sizeable gap.

I also discovered that when you send a battery powered car / truck thing down the inside of a tube (huge concrete 4' diameter drainage pipe) it will climb to the right, no matter which direction you point it. I assume that south of the equator it would climb to the left. I think that this is why the minis in the Italian Job appear so out of control in the tunnel sequence. Very exciting aged 7

nope, already regretting it.

got one of these for crimbo every year too

should i admit to this?

only cos i fancied wolf.

ftfy

^^ ha! Not cool brah, knew I'd regret it!

wolf lived near my ex gf.

I was of an earlier generation of LEGO spaceships, when this stuff was around:

I still think that was an incredibly well-conceived set of models.

I thought this birthday would never come!

Ah, missed this.

Few people have mentioned Lego. A few have mentioned Robin Hood. This was one of my favourite toys:

This, too. I thought at the time LEGO had struck a very good balance between using simply LEGO bricks and additional specialist parts. Before then, it was all a bit too bricky for my taste and afterwards the non-bricky bits started to completely overwhelm the bricks. I'm well aware that I may just be holding this opinion because it was around when I was most receptive to it, but some friends also had lots of older and newer LEGO, and somehow I thought this was just about the best range.

should I admit to this?

Probably not ;-)

Ah, missed this.

You did find a better picture though.

I had this..... in fact I think this is the exact one! Large unbreakable earth movers were the best thing you could give a lad to play with... CSB time:

When I was 5 we moved into a new house and the people who lived there said they'd lost a tortoise in the garden the year before. It was winter when we moved in. Soon as the ground thawed I was out with my Tonka truck wreaking havoc on the flower beds. I was scooping up soil with my little shovel and bunging it in the truck, trundling down the garden and tipping it out in a big pile. Around the third or forth run I tipped out a load of earth which contained a hard brown shell... Took it in to my Mum who had a little look, put it in a cardboard box by the radiator. A few minutes later out pops a tortoise head and legs. Hey presto immedipet! He was ace. He'd hybernated the whole winter in the garden and was now gunning around our kitchen. Kept him for years. He used to think my red wellies were tomatoes and try to eat my feet.

You invented Pokemon!

Yeah those Tonka trucks were invincible. Made from nice thick gauge metal, not like the crap they churn out these days.

I used to live on a rather steep hill when I had mine at the tender age of 6. I would sit in the back of it and ride, gung ho, down the hill. It's amazing I didnt kill myself, as it felt like I was doing 40mph, but in reality and looking backI was more likely to be doing 7mph. Oh the joys of not so many cars on side streets back then. You could safely play in the road outside my home when I was a kid, as there were about 15 car owners to about 100 homes, and even then, they wouldn't use them until sunday.

Good times, good times indeed.

This thread has made me ask the question:

Do you guys use Mame?

It is basically an Arcade Emulator, that plays the rom file from actual arcade cabinet jamma boards. So you actually play the game as intended (controller permitting).

Emulator:
Windows - http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/5/mame/MAME32-v0-90-for-Windows.html
Mac - http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/74/mame/MacMAME-v0-103-for-Mac.html

Roms:
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/mame103.html

This is quite legal as the owners of the roms have released them into the public domain.

You invented Pokemon!

:-D

Don't tell Scoot!

This was one of the best birthdays ever. I felt totally spoilt.

That's right.

MOTHERFUCKER HAD A BARCODE SCANNER.

Pre-program it's course, and off it went.

Pfft! Kids these days, don't know they're born.

^^ Might be a little awkward to carry around in Lidl Tesco Waitrose though?

To be fair, I was much too old to still be playing with Lego Technic when I got that.

Pfft! Kids these days, don't know they're born.

What the hell does that mean anyway?

too old to still be playing with Lego Technic when I got that.

Lies!