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holy SHIT I had that donkey kong. played it TOO MUCH.

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link

I wanted Donkey Kong, but mum bought me Donkey Kong II. (still have it!)

I'm so glad y'all remember the chicken thing, too - I was so depserate to have it when I heard about it, but all I really remember doing was playing tic tac toe against the chicken.

― luna, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Also her: http://www.abundancetools.com/images/sscherself.jpg and a few of her friends (of whom I only remember Blueberry Muffin, Huckleberry Pie, and Lemon Merengue.)

― luna, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I was so happy when Nintendo released the DS...that nintendo would purposefully reference their old Game + Watch toys. Snoopy Tennis was the best.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Dan S - what's the red thing you posted yesterday? I'm talking about the one that looks like a telephone. I know that I had one and but I can't for the life of me remember what it was!

Also, anyone remember Herself the Elf? I had those dolls along with all the strawberry shortcake ones.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Merlin?

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes, that's it! Thanks.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i kinda wanted to punch strawberry shortcake in the face.

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Constructs, wow. and Fireball Island!! Here's another I loved, especially the robot voice that came out of it:

http://atlanta.metblogs.com/archives/images/2005/11/speak_spell.JPG

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

and of course:
http://crzsound.com/image/smath.jpg

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

what is spelled with a # ?

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link

and whoever posted Ole Million Face brought back so many memories for me. thanks!!! (though i never knew that was what he was called)

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

one for the australians:

http://www.pospisil.com.au/vintage/wizzard/dswlogo.gif

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/vtech/wizzard/Dick%20Smith%20Wizzard%20(3).jpg

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

huge! sorry

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

some might remember these:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/a2/250px-Pog_Collection.jpg

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

pog

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

i know this isn't a physical toy, but i truly loved this game:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/games/drg000/g011/g01172b9e5b.jpg

http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/pic/eyeofthebeholder2-a.jpg

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.burncopy.com/pogs/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link

http://classictoysoldiers.com/photos/ACC009.jpg

― Michael White, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Those spelling games I remember from visiting Houston when I was about 12. The kid (of the family we were staying with) had it.

i think these were american. one shop in byres rd sold them, and i would pester my mum to buy me one. occasionally it worked! i loved the smell of the pens.

We had'em here as well. Well, I think so. Some kid I knew used it during her exams. Had stolen some official exam paper and had scribbled everything on it for the next exam. hahaha

And Donkey Kong! I had that. My parents and I would play that shit for hours.

Anyone who dares to post a pic of My Little Poney, gets his ass beaten for 3093093 hours straight. Those things are evil. I know, my daughter got one for a present and that fucking thing leered at me from across the room.

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link

large_appliance_cardboard_box.jpg

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.vidgame.net/Milton_Bradley/simon.jpg

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

pony loves you!

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I only have a torso and one arm left:
http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/images/s1micronautstitle.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

http://tvcream.squarespace.com/storage/photos/dolls/big-yellow.jpg

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link

This, Luna?

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9gnMimvfktG15oAzzCjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=12ir74q7b/EXP=1179439151/**http%3A//www.world-of-collectibles.com/images/cartoon/pntpdh.jpg

― Michael White, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:1REvAUk6WnvqUM:http://www.spacejunk.org/80sblog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/wetbanana1.jpg
Wet Banana, the backyard danger with the banana-shaped sprinkler.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/RealGhostBusters1.jpg
My brother had this. It took forever to put together.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link

my most nostalgic things are two toys that were kept at my grandparents, so I only played with them once a year on our annual trip to ohio.

1. Some sort of glow in the dark and/or backlit playhouse type thing that may or may not have been related to the Disneyworld Haunted House.

2. A really cool set of wooden building blogs with a wholes in them and grooves on them and you'd drop a metal marble on it at the end and it'd go.

vague, I know.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, but i had #2 too

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

"holes".

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Haha, Speak & Spell.

"Spell wkfjsdjfljdsf"

??? *Repeat*

"Spell wkfjsdjfljdsf"

― Madchen, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link

ok i totally remember (but had totally forgotten!) girder and panel, but don't remember it being called that - was there a different name in the US?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.hobby-city.ca/images/balsa1.jpg

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

i played with toys until i was like, um, 15. kind of embarassing, but true! anyway i remember when toys were no longer fun, it was really depressing. even like 5 years ago me and my sisters tried to play with barbies and it was just boring.

― homosexual II, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link

it's true, it is depressing when you realize that toys are no longer fun. I remember my own breaking point: sometime when I was 12 or so, I interrupted my GI Joe playing session to see if there were any good songs on my favorite radio stations that I could tape. It felt like I was trying to hold on to the kind of innocence of playing with action figures, but the music won. I couldn't go back and forth any longer between the radio and the GI Joes.

― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes, Michael! Haha - I forgot they had a beanbag!

― luna, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Was your treehouse a Berenstain Bears one?

― Michael White, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link

No, it was the Little People one that I posted the picture of.

― luna, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link

To be technically accurate this thread would have no answers.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Luna, I had Fashion Plates! And I had Strawberry Shortcake and her friend Orange Blossom. Also those little plastic Smurf figurines!

Anyone remember Sweet Secrets?

― franny glass, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I was slightly obsessed with the Sunshine Family - and their van.
I also had the West dolls - they were horseback riding dolls, and they were all blue except for their heads. And they were jointed, and plastic, and the horses were ginormous.

I too recall the disconnect between playing with toys and, um - smoking pot? because i remember promising myself when i grew up i was going to watch cartoons and play with barbies ALL DAY LONG! Unlike the stupid adults in my life. (This is because I wasn't allowed to watch cartoons and only had one Barbie and no accessories.)

― aimurchie, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link

http://peebucket.com/sitebuilder/images/mr_1_.mouth-172x144.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link

http://supermario30.googlepages.com/simon_screen1.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Simon was the best.

― dan selzer, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link

i am so sorry this is the first time i have looked at this thread

i freakin loved fashion plates!
and i think i still have western barbie in a box somewhere! (not here)

i also had barbie's dream kitchen, which smelled like cookies if those cookies were made entirely of melted plastic and vanilla

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link

omg haha - they even say 'it smells like cookies'!!
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/1359/

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link

(that was the year we lived with our grandparents aka the year of actually getting ridiculous toys we wanted incl cabbage patch kids)

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link

we also had this at my dad's - hours of fun knocking people into the pit. kind of terrifying tbh. but fun! we even painted the 3d game pieces. jabba was particularly ugly in plastic green form what with uneven red blobs of paint for eyes. i remember being pretty adamant abt getting the green mixed right so it wld be the perfect green-yellow-brown colour.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/502846246_578411a8d7_o.jpg

i recall it being more substantial than this. but uh, no, it is made of light cardboard...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/502846280_c65085440c_o.jpg

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link

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