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Previously on "Greatest toys of all time received for Christmas"
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Originally posted by cailin maith View PostYeah... am I?
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostI got one of them when I was about 8. It was brilliant. I used to try and get my mate to storm the stairs whilst I sat at the top and opened up on him with everything.
Mind you, don't think that my parents would have stretched to it if I hadn't broken my leg a few weeks before xmas as well.
Other than that, Subbuteo helped pass endless hours of fun.
I got Subbuteo but didn't get much time to play with it between my dad and uncle hogging it. They eventually created a local league and got it all organised with competitions and prizes.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostI cried myself to sleep, because every other boy in the world had a Johnny seven, and I got a bit of lego instead
Mind you, don't think that my parents would have stretched to it if I hadn't broken my leg a few weeks before xmas as well.
Other than that, Subbuteo helped pass endless hours of fun.
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostA BSA Meteor Super Air Rifle in .22 calibre when i was 13 :-)
Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostMeccano 10
Originally posted by gricerboy View Postmy favourite was my very first Horny train set.
Originally posted by gricerboy View PostMight not surprise you to hear that my favourite was my very first Horny train set. It consisted of an oval of track, a station and 3 LMS carriages pulled by BR standard class 7 no. 70013 Oliver Cromwell.
Two Christmases later, I got the all-time classic GWR Freight Set. Saddle tank engine and a variety of rolling stick. An oval AND a siding AND a cardboard tunnel!
I laid the dead diesel by the track as a symbol of Britain's rejection of smelly skanky fuel-oil locos and a return to proper steam. That has been the theme of all my layouts since.
My train set is listed as a specific item on my contents insurance.
Originally posted by gricerboy View PostAnother favourite of mine was Sticklebrix, anyone remember that?
Originally posted by cailin maith View PostWorst was actually bloody Tiny Tears! She had a hole in her arse with a plug
Originally posted by cailin maith View Postand you filled her up with water
Originally posted by cailin maith View Postand then squeezed her. She cried and pee'd at the same time.
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostThe Mahmood steam engine. They really worked
Originally posted by amcdonald View PostFor my 14th Birthday I got a 48k Zx Spectrum, I can still remember trying to code assembler in hexadecimal I don't think my eyes ever quite recovered from it. Oh how I laughed conning my parents into thinking I wanted it for educational purposes, when really I want it to play games
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I think my Dad got a bonus or a promotion the year I got a Matchbox SuperFast Hot Wheels Loop-the-Loop.
It was about 12 foot of track, with a loop, and a launcher thingy.
Mine had red track.
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Probably my first telescope, came in the biggest box I'd ever seen wrapped. 2.5inch reafractor, equatorial mount with a selection of lens and eyepieces, filters and a gadget for projecting an image of the sun onto a screen to see sunspots.
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I had a computacar.
Computacar Ad 1969 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Aggregate
Programming it by punched card came in hand later when I learned FORTRAN..........
( don't have an old fogey smiley....)
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[QUOTE=gingerjedi;1249967]This:
I ended up with a Philips G7000:
Only last week I looked at buying a 'Woody' Atari 2600 to fill that void!
Also another year I got a BBC Model B which was never quite as good on the games front as the ZX Spectrum. That said, it was a jolly good computer and I learnt Basic on it (I was only ten).
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Tin can alley, why can't they make toy guns like they used to. I also had a magnet ball shooting game that was pretty good.
Lego,Atari 2600(?), and evil kennel were also good.
The best had to be my raleigh burner though, I spent more time on that bike than anything else.
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One Christmas I got a bike with gears on it. Also had some go faster stripes.
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For my 14th Birthday I got a 48k Zx Spectrum, I can still remember trying to code assembler in hexidecimal I don't think my eyes ever quite recovered from it
Oh how I laughed conning my parents into thinking I wanted it for educational purposes, when really I want it to play games
3D Ant Attack, the Ultimate Play The Game (now Rare) stuff like Jet Pac, and KnightLore, Hungry Horrace, Football Manager, Doomdarks Revenge I remember it well and anyone remember playing Hunter Killer you can setup deathmatches if you had a modem!
And a whole 48k, I can remember people saying just get the 16k one you'll never need 48k, and soon enough 16k wasn't enough for gaming
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