Very OT: Favorite non-computer toy(s) growing up

[husky8273]

Nok hockey
Hot Wheels
Lincoln logs

 

[DaddyChoc]

Evil Knievel wind up stunt cycle was awesome:

the best toy ever!

 

[BearJWS]

Not sure what was better, the cars or the music to the commercial...

 

[CAHUSKY]

Not sure what was better, the cars or the music to the commercial...

Loved these; only problem was it was impossible not to lose all the small parts that flew off when they smashed into eac other.

 

[Greathusky]

My favorite toy was the Cadaco All Star Baseball game. Each all star would have a disk with numbers around the outside. Each number stood for a baseball play. For example, the number one was a home run. The number three was a triple. Babe Ruth had a huge number one. The larger the width, the greater chance for that play.

I had teams setup in a league and kept very detailed stats on paper. This was before computers and the internet back in the late sixties.

 

[Dove]

My favorite toy was the Cadaco All Star Baseball game. Each all star would have a disk with numbers around the outside. Each number stood for a baseball play. For example, the number one was a home run. The number three was a triple. Babe Ruth had a huge number one. The larger the width, the greater chance for that play.

I had teams setup in a league and kept very detailed stats on paper. This was before computers and the internet back in the late sixties.

I used to invent my own dice game for a solitaire baseball game. I am amazed at how I perfected it over the years. Rainy days were fun by myself sometimes.

 

[CAHUSKY]

My favorite toy was the Cadaco All Star Baseball game. Each all star would have a disk with numbers around the outside. Each number stood for a baseball play. For example, the number one was a home run. The number three was a triple. Babe Ruth had a huge number one. The larger the width, the greater chance for that play.

I had teams setup in a league and kept very detailed stats on paper. This was before computers and the internet back in the late sixties.

LOVED that game. Jim Rice had a huge home run area too. Haven't thought of that game in years

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Stratomatic Baseball was big for us.

 

[IMind]

Ok I was just a little degenerate at times. I did pitch a few pennies in my youth (yes pennies). Not sure if youngsters know what I'm talking about.

The trick was to aim at the ant hills against the wall. It's like landing a horseshoe in a horseshoe pit.

Man I have vague memories of this from elementry school. Hadn't thought of it for years. This was in the early 80s...

 

[temery]

Man I have vague memories of this from elementry school. Hadn't thought of it for years. This was in the early 80s...

Late 60's, early 70's for me. Teachers didn't seem to have a problem with it.

 

[IMind]

Late 60's, early 70's for me. Teachers didn't seem to have a problem with it.

Heh... we could have robbed a bank and the teachers wouldn't have blinked an eye, but God forbid you wear sneakers into a snow bank.