Your favorite toys, or games, as a kid...

[ILLINOISLION]

We used to play this a lot. I believe someone mentioned it in an earlier thread.
Has anyone said Yahtzee?

Someone mentioned the basketball game and it did bring back fond memories for me too. Don't believe Yahtzee was mentioned but that's another that's probably somewhere in my basement.

 

[TJD88]

My first real set of golf clubs was the Hogan Apex II's. I still have them hanging on my wall.

 

[Royal_Coaster]

Technically, my brother's but we both played with it. Lost In Space, with switch & go technology. You got the Jupiter 2, the space chariot, figurines of all the characters, and tubing that you ran from the spacecraft for the chariot to travel over. There was a way you could throw switches to make the chariot turn and also shoot stuff at the space monster cutouts that were included.

The Jupiter 2 was literally plain white styrofoam- like they used to make coolers out of. The cool thing was that my brother's set had 2 Judy Robinson figures, so that became one of our plot twists-- the alien kidnapped the real Judy and substituted the fake one.

Saw recently that a set was recently sold for > $1,900. Did I mention it was effing styrofoam?

 

[hlstone]

Today I played wiffleball with my kid and threw the lacrosse ball around. But my favorite game as a kid was Ping-Pong, well it still may be.

 

[papa_ed]

We played war a lot, apples ( including rotten ones ) , dirt clump, and if things got out of hand-- rocks.

Where I grew up in Clearfield County, we had a sh$tload of crab apples, excellent for playing war, and those things stung like a b#tch!

 

[hlstone]

Where I grew up in Clearfield County, we had a sh$tload of crab apples, excellent for playing war, and those things stung like a b#tch!

We did the same with corn cobs

 

[Pocono Lion]

Not a toy, but reading about smear the queer also had me reminiscing about the classic floor hockey (or as we called it "heat hockey") games in gym class in high school. Giving a bunch of testosterone filled high school boys plastic sticks and a ball was great fun. lead to many a body check into the rolled-up bleachers, the hard dividing wall in the gym, etc.

 

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

We used to play this a lot. I believe someone mentioned it in an earlier thread.
Has anyone said Yahtzee?

Yahtzee was a good one.

Some other favorites:

 

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

Our version...simply called "kill the guy". Pretty much every recess in grade school - good weather or bad.

We played Capture The Flag in couple places I lived.....with big playing fields, diversionary tactics, and surprise attacks on the flag. Good times.

 

[HazletonLion]

Where I grew up in Clearfield County, we had a sh$tload of crab apples, excellent for playing war, and those things stung like a b#tch!

We use to also bail trees, Birch, climb to near the top and they became top heavy you hung on and when you touched ground or near there you let go and usually got whip slapped with the branches.

 

[kgilbert78]

Not a toy, but reading about smear the queer also had me reminiscing about the classic floor hockey (or as we called it "heat hockey") games in gym class in high school. Giving a bunch of testosterone filled high school boys plastic sticks and a ball was great fun. lead to many a body check into the rolled-up bleachers, the hard dividing wall in the gym, etc.

I actually got college credit for that..... At Ogontz.

 

[Nashville Lion]

Stratego, Electric football, Original Nintendo

 

[hagberg]

Gambit: This thread makes me feel old. All kinds of dudes here citing electronic games they played as kids. Noobs all. We are too old to have had access to that stuff as kids. I recall playing a lot of catch with my baseball glove or a football.

I also recall playing a game called Caroms. A game much like pool, except that you used a flat little wood table top with string pockets in all four corners. And instead of pool balls, you had pieces that looked like checkers pieces. Red and green in color. Really short cues. We played a whole LOT of caroms. I'm sure we would have played electronic stuff if we had the option but, alas... Get off my lawn!!

Me too. When I was a kid, Ben Franklin hadn't even invented electricity yet!

We played so much football and baseball that eventually we'd get bored and have crabapple wars. Those little suckers sting something fierce when you get hit on bare skin!

 

[delcoLion]

The mention of the Cooties game in another thread got me to thinking about my favorite toys, and games, growing up. Below are a few of mine. What were yours?

Still have my Erector set, motor works and I have the magnetic screwdriver that came with it.

But my favorite is the Lionel 2035 steam locomotive set that my Dad bought before I was born, which is coming out of the box today for the first time in many years. Going to get the trains running in time for Thanksgiving. My 98 year old Mother is coming for dinner and she will get a kick out of seeing the trains run again.

 

[fairgambit]

Still have my Erector set, motor works and I have the magnetic screwdriver that came with it.

But my favorite is the Lionel 2035 steam locomotive set that my Dad bought before I was born, which is coming out of the box today for the first time in many years. Going to get the trains running in time for Thanksgiving. My 98 year old Mother is coming for dinner and she will get a kick out of seeing the trains run again.

All the best to your mom. 98 is amazing.

 

[fairgambit]

We played Capture The Flag in couple places I lived.....with big playing fields, diversionary tactics, and surprise attacks on the flag. Good times.

Great game. We played it often.

 

[Leo Ridens]

Your post made me laugh.

Since I did not play football at any level, I am not an expert in Xs and Os, so my role here seems to be to add a little more humor whenever possible. I do love PSU - it was the best seven years of my life; and no, I am not Bluto Blutarski, I did my grad work there.

 

[mn78psu83]

Since I did not play football at any level, I am not an expert in Xs and Os, so my role here seems to be to add a little more humor whenever possible. I do love PSU - it was the best seven years of my life; and no, I am not Bluto Blutarski, I did my grad work there.

Bluto drove off with Mandy Pepperidge and became a US Senator.

 

[Leo Ridens]

Bluto drove off with Mandy Pepperidge and became a US Senator.

Mandy was quite the ice princess. Mrs. Ridens is not quite as pretty as Ms Pepperidge, but she is more beautiful.

PS I caught Animal House the other night on cable - it never grows old. Fun fact - In the National Lampoon's High School Yearbook, Amanda "Fridge" Pepperidge is prominently shown, as is Larry Kroeger.

 

[hagberg]

At one time I had a large marble collection, but I never played the game.

When did you lose them?

 

[Woodpecker]

We used to play this a lot. I believe someone mentioned it in an earlier thread.
Has anyone said Yahtzee?

Yes! I remember after a missed shot waiting ... waiting ... waiting for the ball to roll around on the wobbly "court" and finally settle in a hole. I got deadly from distance on that thing.

 

[mn78psu83]

Sorry if someone already posted this. I never had one. Knew a couple of kids who did and this was fun. The original air hockey table.

 

[MtNittany]

Had both of these at some point as well:

As far as games, this one got played a lot:

 

[delcoLion]

All the best to your mom. 98 is amazing.

fair - thank you for those kind words. A bit difficult this year but she has a lot of heart, memory is still very good. We are very fortunate and blessed.

 

[fairgambit]

When did you lose them?

When I realized that a bunch of scoundrels ran Penn State.