RippedCord 0 #51 October 8, 2003 QuoteIt was basically a "Who done it?" kind of game. There were a bunch of character cards that you put into the lie detector. Essentially an early version of "mastermind." However, children not being the most delicate of creatures, would press too hard with the pen, so that after a short time the connections that required the buzzer/light to work properly were bent or otherwise damaged. You ended up continually trying to determine the suspect with misinformation. Now, how many people had their Rock Tumblers continually exploding from the heat build-up & explansion of air in the container created by the friction of the rocks inside? AMDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lazyfrog 0 #52 October 8, 2003 I had an E.T. finger, but my grandma helped it go home, she thought it was a very obscene toy ---------- Fumer tue, péter pue ------------- ourson #10, Mosquito Uno, CBT 579 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #53 October 8, 2003 QuoteI had an E.T. finger, but my grandma helped it go home, she thought it was a very obscene toy You mean this one? Yeah, I can see how grandma didn't think it too cool... Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lazyfrog 0 #54 October 8, 2003 no, just a plastic finger with a litle bulb inside the tip, and when you pu it over your finger the fingertip would light, like ET's---------- Fumer tue, péter pue ------------- ourson #10, Mosquito Uno, CBT 579 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,147 #55 October 8, 2003 QuoteQuote Toys hadn't been invented when I was a kid. Actually, our favorite game in the neighborhood was cowboys and indians. We always fought over who got to be the horse! ltdiver We did that too, as well as "Cops and Robbers". Neither required toys, and both burned off a lot of energy. The first photo of me that exists has me clutching a toy airplane (it looks like a DC3). I guess that imprinted and was the start of my interest in aviation.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EricaH 0 #56 October 8, 2003 We didn't have that fancy version, but my few fav toys were: building forts in the living room w/ chairs, yarn & lots & lots of blankets. Also would take yarn & thread it around everything in 2 rooms & pretend to be a spider. My loving parents would let us keep it up for weeks. Another fav was a refridgerator box, we built up ontop of it & pretended to be truck drivers (my parents use to be drivers). Or used cups & a ball to "bowl" A big wheel & the tonka truck skateboarding thingie. Also the flat blue sleds w/ yellow handles. We stood up on them (in the early/mid 80's) & were I believe some of the first snow boarders. Growing up in the eastern mtns of Virginia allowd for lots of steep/fast downhill races. Trees & tree houses. My neighborhood friends & I would climb everthing available. Antennas, the porches for the 1 apt bldg around, we'd see how many ways we could get into each others houses w/o using doors.... (guess I was training to be a burgler early on.) also roof jumping - climbing from one rooftop into a tree through the tree & onto another roof - could go about 5 houses. Crazy stuff, hardly had any traditional toys but a great imagination & the ones we did have we used in any manner but that for which it was built. Personally, I'm suprised I'm alive. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeNReN 0 #57 October 8, 2003 We of course played cowboys and indians/cops and robbers.....but as we got older it switched to "WAR"....after all cowboys and indians didnt have tin can bazokas Did anyone else make these dangerous toys to create havoc with??? Take 8 or 9 canned milk cans......cut the tops and bottom off all but one......the lone can would have several holes in one end and a small hole on the round part at the very back.....tape them all together....put lighter fluid into the rear can...shake hard...load a lighter fluid soaked tennis ball...light....BANG!!!!...and the flaming tennis ball would sometimes come flying out.....(never really got any great distance till we started using gas) Needless to say...after a incident which required the fire dept to respond...this form of play was banned by the local police Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
