Like finding treasure...kids from 70's-80's check in
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Wish I had back:
Knight Rider Big-Wheel
Original Voltron
All of my old Transformers: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Constructicons, Dinobots, Shockwave, Skyfire, Astrotrain,etc,etc....
I've priced all of these on Ebay and now my old collection would go for about a grand.
Sincerely,
DCEPTCN (Decepticon
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Knight Rider Big-Wheel
Original Voltron
All of my old Transformers: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Constructicons, Dinobots, Shockwave, Skyfire, Astrotrain,etc,etc....
I've priced all of these on Ebay and now my old collection would go for about a grand.
Sincerely,
DCEPTCN (Decepticon
)Originally posted by turbov6joe
Hey Bill, I had that racing game Redline, that was a cool game back then; maybe even so now! Sure wish I could duplicate those reaction timesAnyone have the stretch armstrong guy?
I remember that game.. It was shaped kinda like a top fuel steering wheel and was red in color wasnt it? I begged my parents for that but never did get it
.I had a stretch armstrong too. I dunno what the stuff inside him was but mine got a hole in it somehow (prolly from throwing him at my sis
) and this EXTREMELY sticky green stuff oozed out on the carpet which got me another hind end beating 
.DonnieShort
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Stompers were great!!!
Don't forget the Intellivision and the Colecovision. They were amazing for their time.
Don't forget the Intellivision and the Colecovision. They were amazing for their time.
Cox gas powered cars/planes (Shrike - Dune Buggy - Pinto Drag car), they had little .049 engines!
Complete Major Matt Mason series with vehicles, lunar station, glider, etc. I remember putting these guys into the Cox dune buggy and sending them across the yard!
Billy Blastoff and the scuba set.
Lionel train with real smoke!
Radio Shack TRS-80, does anyone remember those besides me? I actually still have my Colecovision set with a Zaxxon game and something else.
Someone mentioned the bike with the shocks. I had one that only had the shocks in the rear. The bike was completely chrome with a black seat. It was made by Mattel. I can't remember the name of it, but I think the other one was called a Mustang and and it had a fake gas tank where you stored stuff.
I've got a ton of Hot Wheel cars that I'd love to find, plus some Sizzler cars that you recharge the little gas pump.
What about those Clackers that use to break and shatter. It was the two balls on the string and you'd move your hand up/down and make them bounce off of each other.
Then the Duncan Yo-Yo craze with the lighted butterfly yo-yo and let's not forget the Super Ball! I have no idea how many of those things I lost! Oh....and the paper kite that you got from the corner store, or the one your Pop made for you out of newspaper! Dang, I really must be getting old!
-Bobby
Complete Major Matt Mason series with vehicles, lunar station, glider, etc. I remember putting these guys into the Cox dune buggy and sending them across the yard!
Billy Blastoff and the scuba set.
Lionel train with real smoke!
Radio Shack TRS-80, does anyone remember those besides me? I actually still have my Colecovision set with a Zaxxon game and something else.
Someone mentioned the bike with the shocks. I had one that only had the shocks in the rear. The bike was completely chrome with a black seat. It was made by Mattel. I can't remember the name of it, but I think the other one was called a Mustang and and it had a fake gas tank where you stored stuff.
I've got a ton of Hot Wheel cars that I'd love to find, plus some Sizzler cars that you recharge the little gas pump.
What about those Clackers that use to break and shatter. It was the two balls on the string and you'd move your hand up/down and make them bounce off of each other.
Then the Duncan Yo-Yo craze with the lighted butterfly yo-yo and let's not forget the Super Ball! I have no idea how many of those things I lost! Oh....and the paper kite that you got from the corner store, or the one your Pop made for you out of newspaper! Dang, I really must be getting old!
-Bobby
GN One Day...
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We had a TRS80 too. Used a cassette tape for the drive. LOL!
Gotta go, my son is addicted to Outlaw on the Atari.
Gotta go, my son is addicted to Outlaw on the Atari.
Ok, here's a REAL oldy. The Really Ridem Truck. You gotta be @ least 40 to remember it.
And bicycle wise, how about the Fastback 100? I had a Screamer that had a shifter on the frame, 5 speed. Had rear shocks, tiny front wheel................damn it was SHWEET!
Coleco Vision with Zaxxon! it ruled!
Bill T
And bicycle wise, how about the Fastback 100? I had a Screamer that had a shifter on the frame, 5 speed. Had rear shocks, tiny front wheel................damn it was SHWEET!
Coleco Vision with Zaxxon! it ruled!
Bill T
Hey boostedmaxPSI (about the third or fourth post);
I still use a rotary phone! Stinking thing weighs about eight pounds - works perfectly!
I have another roatry phone with a metal dial rotar that I got from my grandparents attic that I would like to get working.
I still use a rotary phone! Stinking thing weighs about eight pounds - works perfectly!
I have another roatry phone with a metal dial rotar that I got from my grandparents attic that I would like to get working.
Man, my parents still live in the house they bought new in '74 and haven't even remodeled it! Same shag carpet, drapes, wood paneling, and some of the furnature, too! The closet my brother and I shared has hardly been touched since we moved away from home and everything is still there. GI Joe footlockers still full of clothes, dog tags, boots, guns, binoculars, canteens, etc., GI Joe Helicopter and some radar command post 8 wheeled vehicle too. SST cars, TONS of trashed Hot Wheels, Sizzlers, AFX slot cars, Big Jim and accessories, Adam West and accessories, an Atari tank battle game console, the electric train set with real smoke, TONS of the little green army men with trucks and tanks (with tank hits we burned into them ourselves), the Evil Kenivel motorcylce with the crank up base, the Redline racing game, books, puzzles, and several assembled and unassemble plastic models. Everything still sitting there nearly untouched for over 20 years. I'll try to look in there when I get a chance and see what no one's mentioned yet. My parents get mad when I tell them the whole place is a '70's time capsule. 
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Since I stopped playing with toys around 12 years old in 1971.
I still have my favorite 1 st year hot wheel redlines, Lensey matchboxes, Match box king size all tucked away.
I would love to have back 65 GTO (1st car in 1976 = BIG TOY)
or
I Would like back my cell packs & boxes for all the cars above.
I still have my favorite 1 st year hot wheel redlines, Lensey matchboxes, Match box king size all tucked away.
I would love to have back 65 GTO (1st car in 1976 = BIG TOY)
or
I Would like back my cell packs & boxes for all the cars above.
My parent's attic is a goldmine of my youth.....
An assload of Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars, including some "Rollamatics" that had one tire that had a tooth on it and it made something on the car move (like the siren on the police car).
A metal lunchbox and thermos from the TV show "Emergency!"
Evel Knievel's rocket car from the Snake River canyon jump....I jumped the stairwell and put many a divot on the drywall.
REAL Tonka Truck car carrier, steamroller, steam shovel, dump truck and about 6 others....
GI Joe, $6M Man, old model car kits....
God knows what else. Gotta go clean house sometime!
Steve
An assload of Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars, including some "Rollamatics" that had one tire that had a tooth on it and it made something on the car move (like the siren on the police car).
A metal lunchbox and thermos from the TV show "Emergency!"
Evel Knievel's rocket car from the Snake River canyon jump....I jumped the stairwell and put many a divot on the drywall.
REAL Tonka Truck car carrier, steamroller, steam shovel, dump truck and about 6 others....
GI Joe, $6M Man, old model car kits....
God knows what else. Gotta go clean house sometime!
Steve
"Radio Shack TRS-80, does anyone remember those besides me? I actually still have my Colecovision set with a Zaxxon game and something else."..............
I very much remember the TRS-80 Color Computer. I also remember the following.....
Atari 800, friend had one
Texas Instruments 16 bit, friend had one
Commodore 4016/4032 "PET", school
Commodore 8032, computer course I took(I was 13, 1983)
Apple II, school (and I have one now)
Timex/Sinclair ZX80, friend had one
Mattel (sp?) Aquarius, friend had one
Commodore VIC-20, friend had one
Commodore 64, I still have
ColecoVision, friend had one
Atari 5200, I still have
Spectravideo MSX, friend had one
first Apple Mac, friend had one (1985)
Magnavox Oddesey(sp?) II 1981, friend had one
I very much remember the TRS-80 Color Computer. I also remember the following.....
Atari 800, friend had one
Texas Instruments 16 bit, friend had one
Commodore 4016/4032 "PET", school
Commodore 8032, computer course I took(I was 13, 1983)
Apple II, school (and I have one now)
Timex/Sinclair ZX80, friend had one
Mattel (sp?) Aquarius, friend had one
Commodore VIC-20, friend had one
Commodore 64, I still have
ColecoVision, friend had one
Atari 5200, I still have
Spectravideo MSX, friend had one
first Apple Mac, friend had one (1985)
Magnavox Oddesey(sp?) II 1981, friend had one
GN One Day...
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The VIC & 64--that's where it was at!
We had an Apple IIC, we couldn't do squat but word processing! Could hardly get software for it around here. It was "portable" though. If you had a TV where you were ever going to use it. LOL! Loved the keyboard on that thing.
We had an Apple IIC, we couldn't do squat but word processing! Could hardly get software for it around here. It was "portable" though. If you had a TV where you were ever going to use it. LOL! Loved the keyboard on that thing.
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If you didn't have a Green Machine or a Big Wheels on my block you would be heckled. My Aunt still has mine Green machine at her house. I still have my Coleco Vision, and it works great,(donkey kong and turbo). The true s h i t was the action figure stickered lunch boxes we used to take to school with the thermos inside
