OT: Sports toys/games from your younger days. (Pics encouraged)

[Waquoit]

x100 for the bow and arrow sets we all got as kids. Banning Jarts was comicly stupid.

Spoken like a man who never had a Jart stuck in his head. The difference being that someone isn't standing right next to the target in archery.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Toys were simple and fun. If you had a Duncan yoyo, you were set for hours. No batteries, no instructions, nothing

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Even Letterman had a top 10 on this subject.

 

[temery]

Spoken like a man who never had a Jart stuck in his head. The difference being that someone isn't standing right next to the target in archery.

Did you ever actually see anyone standing next to a Jarts target?

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Some great throwbacks in this thread. Spent countless hours playing pool on one these.

Great threads too @Jaydumo20

 

[Chin Diesel]

Spoken like a man who never had a Jart stuck in his head. The difference being that someone isn't standing right next to the target in archery.

Did you ever actually see anyone standing next to a Jarts target?

Here're the numbers from 1936-1987.

LAWN DARTS CAN CAUSE SERIOUS OR FATAL HEAD INJURIES AND DEATH

LAWN DARTS CAN CAUSE SERIOUS OR FATAL HEAD INJURIES AND DEATH

www.cpsc.gov

 

[husky8273]

I believe I had the detonator version. I loved that thing.

just found a box of my Hot Wheels cars from the 60s. Had no idea I still had them. A friend sold them all on eBay.

 

[temery]

Here're the numbers from 1936-1987.

LAWN DARTS CAN CAUSE SERIOUS OR FATAL HEAD INJURIES AND DEATH

LAWN DARTS CAN CAUSE SERIOUS OR FATAL HEAD INJURIES AND DEATH

www.cpsc.gov

Trampolines have caused far more injuries/deaths. Hell, let's go after football next.

We must protect the children!

 

[husky8273]

Clackers - how dumb were these:

 

[CL82]

ok. You're right. The transition from BB gun to pellet gun was the end of the fun. CO2 came in about the same time as pellet guns.

We always had a "DMZ" buffer zone to prevent serious injury.

If you "prevented serious injury" how did you know when the fight was over? It literally went on until someone got hurt.

Good times!

 

[CL82]

just found a box of my Hot Wheels cars from the 60s. Had no idea I still had them. A friend sold them all on eBay.

A friend sold all your hot wheels cars? He's kind of a jerk.

 

[Waquoit]

Did you ever actually see anyone standing next to a Jarts target?

Back in the day? Of course! Where else are you going to stand?

 

[AZHuskiePop]

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We played serious Wiffle ball but we used broom handles for bats . I credit that with me being a good hitter in HS

 

[temery]

If you "prevented serious injury" how did you know when the fight was over? It literally went on until someone got hurt.

Good times!

No, it went on until the street lights came on, or we ran out of ammo.

On Wednesday it stopped when the first Italian mom yelled, "it's Prince spaghetti day!"

 

[temery]

Back in the day? Of course! Where else are you going to stand?

Wherever it was that I was throwing the Jarts.

 

[Kaizen]

Atari games,

 

[storrsroars]

Early Snake Plissken before he shot his eye out:

 

[Puparoni]

Gas plane on a tether. Saved up for it by selling Christmas Cards door-to-door as advertised in my “Boys Life“ subscription. (a magazine from cub scouts) Was a bear to control, and started a boyhood obsession with anything with an internal combustion engine. Amazing that we survived.

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My first memory of model airplanes was this style. I was about eight years old. My brother-in-law bought one and we went to a local schoolyard. Figured the basketball court was a good spot. Never thought to measure the tether length. The plane hit the metal pole on the first lap and disintegrated.

 

[beerfan]

Clackers - how dumb were these:

I am pretty sure these were also banned

 

[Kolumbo]

I had one of these Estes rockets. It didn't last very long. Kids also made tennis ball cannons out of cans using lighter fluid

 

[B1GEast]

Had a few of these action figures

 

[CL82]

I loved this thing too! I always suspected my parents regretted getting it for me after an hour or so of listening to automatic weapons fire.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I had one of these Estes rockets. It didn't last very long. Kids also made tennis ball cannons out of cans using lighter fluid

I was a few years too young to do much of the tennis ball and lighter fluid cannon. Kids in neighborhood definitely did it but I'm pretty sure I was mostly used to fetch the tennis balls to reload. I think if I was actively doing it I'd have better memories of it.

 

[Blakeon18]

Cap pistol...preferably with a holster. Practice your fast draw as on TV westerns...the other person being a bad guy of
some sort. Both of you had the moral obligation that if your cap pistol didn't "go off"[a little puff sound] first it meant
that he had won the draw and you were supposed to drop to the ground...near death and with much agony as possible.
The little roll of caps you put in your pistol had maybe 6 shots.
At least in my neighbor hood having double holsters and 2 cap pistols was somehow beyond appropriate and too
farcical for those of us who in fact were deadly but righteous gunslingers.

 

[CL82]

Remember these?



I had a P 51 mustang.

 

[husky8273]

A friend sold all your hot wheels cars? He's kind of a jerk.

it was a joint venture - worked out well