Astro Wars!,the one I wanted most,but never got!.I did have Scramble,and Galaxy Invader 1000 to make up for it mind!.Great thread!
Action Man and Action Jack
He-Man dolls
Evil Knievel with a kind of generator that you'd rev up so he'd speed off
Ditto. I didn't have it, a mate did. My parents wouldn't buy stuff like that in case it ruined my eyesight - or some such bollocks.Loved Astro Wars.
Gawd, the amount of hours I must have wasted on it!
LOL!,I was lucky,my parents didn't give a damn if it kept me out of their hair!,I think they thought the day they got me a 48k Spectrum was the best investment of their lives,I cannot remember seeing them at all after February 1983 (13th birthday)...I got a Ferguson B&W TV for Christmas '82,so I am sure they had it all planned!.Maybe I just pissed them off,keep creeping downstairs to watch the horror film double bill on BBC2 every Saturday night....Ditto. I didn't have it, a mate did. My parents wouldn't buy stuff like that in case it ruined my eyesight - or some such bollocks.
Catapults....Remember the Black Widow?....I was never allowed one,so as an adult.....Oh yes. That one was an exciting one.
Until you played it.
My first insight into being sold an idea rather than a good thing.
(there haven't been many since)
It was fun for the first couple of goes, but far too easy.
I seem to remember messing about with the catapult mechanism quite a lot though.
Was pretty strong.
Catapults....Remember the Black Widow?....I was never allowed one,so as an adult.....
My brother and I got those Man From U.N.C.L.E. spy kits on Christmas Day 1966. It was the best Christmas present ever!Had them all and played with them till they fell apart, like all toys should be.
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Meccano
Lego
A ball of either shape.
I have never owned or used a computer game. As a kid I was too busy building stuff or playing football or rugby or anything else that got me out in the fresh air. My mum used to see me at 8am, about noon for lunch, 5 pm for tea and then when it got dark and never worried one bit.
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