your favourite schoolboy toys

[Mustang Baz]

This is the best thread that has been on here for ages - absolutely superb memory joggers.

Did anyone use these at the start of the 80's (Choose your own adventure books?). Apparently they are still going!



Spectrum 48k games also really got me smiling - Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Skool Daze - I can still remember the theme music I played them so much! Was it just me that spent hours typing in "Pokes"/program codes for infinite lives etc??

[BAHN-STORMA]

jackal said:

DID ANYONE HAVE A MARDAVE STOCK CAR ?

it was like the westfield of the RC world
much harder to build than a Tamiya but very popular
i spent all Xmas building mind then new years drove it under a passing car and the Futaba Ripmax receiver was split in two !

My mate had a Mardave Marauder, petrol beast - he reckoned it was vastly superior to my Tamiya (and was probably right!).

[BAHN-STORMA]

jackal said:

we used to go to Repro in Battersea and some shops near Russel Square.. Alan Alans and Davenports magic

We used to go to Davenports as well, stock up on stink bombs for the train ride home....


Bloody Kids!

[BAHN-STORMA]

jackal said:

anyone ?

I'm not admitting anything!

Was in newsagents just the other day and saw 'White Dwarf' (Fairly sure I never bought it myself though!) but may have known others that did...

[BAHN-STORMA]

jackal said:

Amok on the Vic-20 ?

it was my favourite game









LONG before Pengo, Chuckie egg and BBC pacman etc..

Blue Meanies? or was that C64?

[ali_kat]

Bruggy said:

The space hopper is probably THE most useless toy ever and I suspect most were discarded and left outside by lunchtime on Xmas day

I loved mine, and I know that my Dad still has it stored in the garage 'cause I found it last weekend - he 'said' it was for the grand children he's not getting

[sleep envy]

jackal said:

did anyone have merlin ?

yup, the most annoying and noisy way to play noughts and crosses

[skilly1]

I used to love this - especially as it was backlit LCD so you could play at night !

[sleep envy]

remember that, you could do 720's and jump both ditches

[Healey73]

skilly1 said:

I used to love this - especially as it was backlit LCD so you could play at night !

Wow, fantastic!! I had one of those and had forgotten all about it till your pic, then it all came flooding back!

[Sciroccology]

Alex said:

But I DID have one of these:

Me too, they were ace. I also had a remote control crane that picked stuff up, moved it round, then put it down again. Hours of fun.

chunkymonkey71 said:

Had a grifter too... heaviest bike in the universe!!!

And then some. Rumour has it the Grifter was made in the Irn Bru factory. From girders.

I had a blue Grifter, but always wanted a Chopper, although the innuendo of asking one of the other kids on the street if I could "have a ride on your Chopper" escaped me at such an innocent age.

Edited by Sciroccology on Friday 5th December 14:36

[Mobsta]

Healey73 said:

skilly1 said:

I used to love this - especially as it was backlit LCD so you could play at night !

Wow, fantastic!! I had one of those and had forgotten all about it till your pic, then it all came flooding back!

I didnt even own one, but it all came flooding back

Its been tubed here

[uk89camaro]

anybody mention this yet...great fun.

[fflyingdog]

Does anyone remember Computer Car? You had a slot in the back which you slid in the "program card" (oooo err missus.i digress) anyway you cut certain parts of the card out and the car would stop go forwards backwards left right etc whilst feeding the card through the car,took 2 "c" cells cant sem to find anything on the net anywhere about them.IIRC it was sort of based on a Porsche looking design.

Edited by fflyingdog on Friday 5th December 18:58

[Eric Mc]

uk89camaro said:

anybody mention this yet...great fun.

Why did every kid in every toy ad in the 70s look like that?

[fflyingdog]

Did?