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

[Kolumbo]

I had this Jeep and trailer. The action figures and the accessories were pretty cool. The launcher fired silver rockets which you can see in the jeep. Of course you'd inevitably lose some of GI Joe's limbs. I don't think they sold replacements back then, so you'd get a new Joe.

 

[Jaydumo20]

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Norton always won in my 1977-78 childhood play after seeing the yankee stadium robbery

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This is absolutely incredible.

 

[Jaydumo20]

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I can't!!! Haaaaaa. Zero team organization whatsoever!

 

[CL82]

it was a joint venture - worked out well

I still have mine as well, along with my matchbox cars.

 

[Jaydumo20]

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

Great threads too @Jaydumo20

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That is a classic

 

[Chin Diesel]

A bucket full of these guys and a dirt mound or area under a tree and it was hours of fun.

 

[QDOG5]

I was a big fan of battling tops.

 

[CCSUblue]

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

Great threads too @Jaydumo20

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100% I remember having this in my childhood basement and thinking I knew how to play pool.

 

[B1GEast]

These things always leaked water

 

[August_West]

One boring summer day, my friends and I set out on a quest to tear Stretch Armstrong apart. From what I recall, there were pliers and a vise involved. We also tried to draw and quarter him between two bicycles. None of it worked. We were maybe 10? That day ended with one of the moms yelling at us because we tossed ol' Stretch in a metal garbage can with some charcoal lighter fluid to finish the job.

A sharp knife did the job. Got grounded because I ruined my mom’s new love seat. The goop inside never came off. Still don’t know what kind be alien compound that was made of.

 

[August_West]

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Worst game ever invented

 

[uconnfan68]

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

Great threads too @Jaydumo20

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Capital Billiards in MIddletown for me (as a young teenager). I still can't believe they let us in.

 

[B1GEast]

Even Letterman had a top 10 on this subject.

The joke behind the joke gets a little tiring

 

[Jmul760170]

3!

This one almost got me in some major trouble.
It never could kick as far as it was "supposed" to. Most times, I remember the football just rolling off that little platform.
So one day, I got so mad at it, I picked it up and threw it, intending to bounce it off our living room couch.
It sailed over the couch, and shattered the large window behind it.
My Mother came to see what happened and I got the wait until your father gets home speech.
For some reason I didn't get a major whoopin', my Dad hated that dang thing as much as I did apparently.
He threw it in the trash, made me empty my piggy bank - as my punishment, and went to the hardware store to get a replacement.

 

[87Xfer]

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I loved this stupid thing.

 

[CL82]

I had this Jeep and trailer. The action figures and the accessories were pretty cool. The launcher fired silver rockets which you can see in the jeep. Of course you'd inevitably lose some of GI Joe's limbs. I don't think they sold replacements back then, so you'd get a new Joe.

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I had the jeep too!

 

[B1GEast]

I remember having this figure

 

[B1GEast]

They made a lot of strange toys, but we still played with them

 

[87Xfer]

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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This and slot cars were my obsessions for a while. Nearly lost fingers starting the cox engines many times. And that fuel was something else. With the right plane you could fly loops, then do forward loops to keep the tether chords from getting too crossed up.

Later we learned that you could use Estes rockets to create some nutty improvised fireworks. Get the biggest model rocket engine you could find, make a big 12-18 inch long tube from poster board, buy "cannon fuse" or improvise with tissue paper and gun powder and connect it to where the engine charge goes off to launch the parachute, then cram the tube with M80s, whatever else spliced to the "fuse". Epoxy fins on and add a nose cone. Launch when ready. I think we almost set South Windsor on fire once with that game.

 

[Kolumbo]

Even Letterman had a top 10 on this subject.

ain't got the baby batter on the brain

 

[oshkosh]

Featured on many car rides

 

[Deepster]

A bucket full of these guys and a dirt mound or area under a tree and it was hours of fun.

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Unfortunately my troop suffered many casualties during the great Battle Against The Magnifying Glass.

 

[Waquoit]

couldn't imagine childhood without one

Anyone else remember the original? The plucky underdog that was soon eclipsed by Big Foam.

 

[Spaceman213J]

I love this thread. It makes me think of so many wonderful memories.

1. Wiffle Ball- My dad actually built a wiffle ball field, complete with little American flags on top of the outfield fence posts for foul poles. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and family spent on our lot playing wiffle ball. It's one of the thing I miss the most about my old house in Morris, CT.
2. Jarts- These are still illegal now, yet some cities want to make it okay to walk around with heroin in your pockets. Never thought I'd see the day
3. Balsa Wood Planes- They remind me of Cape Cod. Every year my mom would buy me one from a store up there and I'd take it to the beach. She would also get me a cheap kite to fly.

I also grew up on Transformers, the new G.I. Joe figures and vehicles and if anybody remembers toys based on the short lived M.A.S.K. cartoon. I never really got into He-Man which also big when I was a kid.

I also miss the smell of the electric race car sets. It is funny how a picture or smell can take you back.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

1. Wiffle Ball- My dad actually built a wiffle ball field, complete with little American flags on top of the outfield fence posts for foul poles. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and family spent on our lot playing wiffle ball. It's one of the thing I miss the most about my old house in Morris, CT.

I played in a backyard whiffleball league in Ansonia when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school and the kid who ran it was a part time writer for the Valley Sentinel. He would write articles like it was a legit baseball league with quotes from players and all. I still have the articles saved in a binder somewhere.