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

[David54]

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Still made in Shelton Ct. right?

 

[Jmul760170]

I loved this stupid thing.

Yes same here. Used to run the score up on just 1 side to see what the high score I could get.
They had a version of it out the last 10-15 years, I played it a few times and tossed it......

 

[Jaydumo20]

These things always leaked water

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This was my jaaaaaam! Great call

 

[Spaceman213J]

I forgot to mention Key Cars. I remember one Christmas when I had opened all my toys. I was already happy with what I got, but then my mom took me to our wood stove and there were 3 little packages around the bottom of the stove, which was a few feet up on a cement block. She said they must have fallen out of Santa's bag, but were meant for me. They were 3 Key Cars.

One year, I also got this yellow wood construction set thing. You pumped it up with a handle which spun two saws, a puncturing device and sander that were all surrounded by clear safety hard plastic. You could build stuff out of popsicle sticks and thin pieces of balsa wood.

 

[husky8273]

Nok Hockey

I still have this game.

 

[Improviser]

I still have this game.

I built my own, though primitive, in my also primitive, woodworking shop in my basement.

I think it was in the 1960's. I still have it somewhere in my house.

 

[Improviser]

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For wannabe sluggers in small backyards.

1950's I think it started out.

 

[Improviser]

Never had one of these more than 10 minutes. Either, ended up on a roof or in a tree.

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I remember these. Made of balsa wood. The precursor of the drone, maybe?

 

[Improviser]

And, then there were these erector sets. This video and video presentation, was common then.

 

[mauconnfan]

For wannabe sluggers in small backyards.

1950's I think it started out.

Could play it anywhere. One on one or 3 on 3 didn’t matter. Bat righty or lefty be any major leaguer you wanted to be. HRs, triples or doubles off a certain part of a fence, house, roof, bushes didn’t matter it traveled to parks or family get togethers. The best!

 

[B1GEast]

One toy that I really really wanted but never got was the Planet of the Apes battle wagon playset.

 

[87Xfer]

Another one that was stupid simple but I really liked it anyway.

 

[NEforceUConn]

For rainy days.

 

[alexd]

Mid 1970s.... Sub Search. Sort of a 4 level cooler version of "battleship".

 

[Kolumbo]

 

[Kolumbo]

we had an early version of this

 

[CbbisGreat]

not a toy ,but when I was a kid the day the new marvel comics came out was the biggest day of the month .
Spiderman , Daredevil , Avengers were all great .

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

 

[August_West]

160-1 Electronic project kit when I was 9. Still have it. Best “ toy” ever.
I used to mess with that thing 14 hours a day and it shaped my life. 3 days after the XMAS I received it I hijacked the AM radio my parents listened to Bob Steele on before work every morning and broadcast myself.
It’s stuck with me through life, from giving me the knowledge framework to build my own guitar effects and rewire my guitars, to setting me up for understanding hardware computer components early in the game which led to my career.

Yeah, I was, and am, an egghead.

 

[AidanFan20]

Carrom Pool board

Couldn't seem to get it to link any other way... Versatile mini-pool and other games board.

 

[Bboy Lace]

I had a knight rider big wheel

 

[Bboy Lace]

And a trusty radio flyer before that

 

[Jaydumo20]

I had a knight rider big wheel


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My best companion as a kid. He gave the best advice.

 

[CCSUblue]

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160-1 Electronic project kit when I was 9. Still have it. Best “ toy” ever.
I used to mess with that thing 14 hours a day and it shaped my life. 3 days after the XMAS I received it I hijacked the AM radio my parents listened to Bob Steele on before work every morning and broadcast myself.
It’s stuck with me through life, from giving me the knowledge framework to build my own guitar effects and rewire my guitars, to setting me up for understanding hardware computer components early in the game which led to my career.

Yeah, I was, and am, an egghead.

I got a modern version of this for my son a couple years ago. It entertains me more than him, but he is still a bit young for it. Hoping he grows into it.

 

[TheChamps990411]

I was the man in my neighborhood for the entire summer because of this Voltron. Was $70 then and today ive seen them on Ebay for nearly $1,000