OT: Your Favorite Childhood Christmas Presents

[TRAGChick]

OK:

So...what were your MOST EXCELLENT?

For me:

Tie between "SpiroGraph" and a Tambourine...like one from "Josie & The Pussycats" (my FAVORITE Band-Related cartoon...yup; YOU CAN TELL what I wanted to do as a grown-up.... LOL )


Next....??

[Rick]

When I was, I think about 8, I got one of these babies. I can not tell you how much fun I had with this thing.

[Duncan]

Showing my age now, but i had an Evil Kineval (?) jet bike. You stuck this thing in this contraption and wound the handle and there were flints in the jets that would cause sparks, then you let it go and try to mow down the cat! Brilliant. I'd buy one now if they were still around.

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[Rick]

Showing my age now, but i had an Evil Kineval (?) jet bike. You stuck this thing in this contraption and wound the handle and there were flints in the jets that would cause sparks, then you let it go and tried to mow down the cat! Brilliant. I'd but one now if they were still around.

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My cousin had one of those. That was great!

[Enigma869]

The Atari 2600. Those graphics sucked monkey balls but for the late 70's, it was pretty progressive stuff. I think I had blisters for months playing Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pitfall, et. al.

[JH'sTXfan]

OK:

So...what were your MOST EXCELLENT?

For me:

Tie between "SpiroGraph" and a Tambourine...like one from "Josie & The Pussycats" (my FAVORITE Band-Related cartoon...yup; YOU CAN TELL what I wanted to do as a grown-up.... LOL )

Next....??

I loved tambourines also! I had several growing up. Had the Spirograph too. I got a potter's wheel once because I loved sculpting. I loved the Crissy doll that I got one year, with the crank out pony tail, mini dress and go-go boots.

[Duncan]

The Atari 2600. Those graphics sucked monkey balls but for the late 70's, it was pretty progressive stuff. I think I had blisters for months playing Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pitfall, et. al.

I was a ZX Spectrum kid myself. The hours i spent typing lines and lines of a program into this this thing int he hope that you could get a game of Dessert racer out of it. The other way of doing, and i cannot quite remember how this worked, but I also remember playing cassette tapes to my computer in order to try and download a program. There always seemed to be more failure than success.

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[Rick]

The Atari 2600. Those graphics sucked monkey balls but for the late 70's, it was pretty progressive stuff. I think I had blisters for months playing Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pitfall, et. al.

I was a ZX Spectrum kid myself. The hours i spent typing lines and lines of a program into this this thing int he hope that you could get a game of Dessert racer out of it. The other way of doing, and i cannot quite remember how this worked, but I also remember playing cassette tapes to my computer in order to try and download a program. There always seemed to be more failure than success.

I had a Commodore 64 that must have been a lot like what you described here. I've always been a geek, I guess.

[Duncan]

The Atari 2600. Those graphics sucked monkey balls but for the late 70's, it was pretty progressive stuff. I think I had blisters for months playing Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pitfall, et. al.

I was a ZX Spectrum kid myself. The hours i spent typing lines and lines of a program into this this thing int he hope that you could get a game of Dessert racer out of it. The other way of doing, and i cannot quite remember how this worked, but I also remember playing cassette tapes to my computer in order to try and download a program. There always seemed to be more failure than success.

I had a Commodore 64 that must have been a lot like what you described here. I've always been a geek, I guess.

Rick, I can assure you the Commodore 64 was a huge upgrade on the ZX Spectrum. I think your 64 had a proper keyboard. The spectrum had these weird rubber buttons, and thats before i tell you about the ZX81 and the ZX80.

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[DrFU]

Pains me to admit this, but ... an Easy Bake Oven

[Rick]

The Atari 2600. Those graphics sucked monkey balls but for the late 70's, it was pretty progressive stuff. I think I had blisters for months playing Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pitfall, et. al.

I was a ZX Spectrum kid myself. The hours i spent typing lines and lines of a program into this this thing int he hope that you could get a game of Dessert racer out of it. The other way of doing, and i cannot quite remember how this worked, but I also remember playing cassette tapes to my computer in order to try and download a program. There always seemed to be more failure than success.

I had a Commodore 64 that must have been a lot like what you described here. I've always been a geek, I guess.

Rick, I can assure you the Commodore 64 was a huge upgrade on the ZX Spectrum. I think your 64 had a proper keyboard. The spectrum had these weird rubber buttons, and thats before i tell you about the ZX81 and the ZX80.

We had it going on back then dude.

[separate_wayz]

Pains me to admit this, but ... an Easy Bake Oven

Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Make me a chicken pot pie!!!

My best memory is for a Tyco TCR racetrack with remote controlled slot cars. It was THE hot toy that year, and my brother and I both wanted it.

My mom ordered it from J.C. Penney, but when the order arrived at the store two days before Christmas, the distribution warehouse had only shipped the remote controlled cars, not the whole set. Every other toy store had sold out of 'em, but my mom scoured the globe until she somehow found one and had it there on Christmas day.

[Enigma869]

I had a Commodore 64 that must have been a lot like what you described here. I've always been a geek, I guess.

I had the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Intellivision, Atari 5200, Sega Genesis, Original Nintendo (the dopey one with the robot), Colecovision, 3DO, Super Nintendo, Playstation, Playstation 2, XBox, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii but it all started off on the crappy Atari 2600, which I was THRILLED to get from "Santa", when I was a little boy. Thanks Mom

[Duncan]

Around the time of the Evil Kineval jet bike was the must have accessory for all UK kids below the age of 10. Based on the sci-fi series the Tomorrow People was the Jaunting Belt, which was a kind of "Beam me up Scotty" way to transport yourself from one place to another, simply at the press of the belt buckle. Never could get mine to work.

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[hoagiepete]

I was born a poor white child. I did get a knock off version of Pong though (I think a Sears version or something like that) ...that was huge.

I got a Hot Wheels track one year with the loopty-loop section of track. That was probably my most memorable.

Loved my Electric Football game too. Painted the yellow players tops green to be my favorite team...GB Packers and painted the white teams helmets red to be the KC Chiefs. Loads of fun there!!! Didn't realize activities featuring vibrations could be so fun!

[Don]

Bionic Bigfoot along with the Steve Austin and Jamie Summers. They had little motor cycles that you pumped and they went of of a ramp

[hoagiepete]

Bionic Bigfoot along with the Steve Austin and Jamie Summers. They had little motor cycles that you pumped and they went of of a ramp

Did Steve Austin get to pump Jamie??!

[Don]

Bionic Bigfoot along with the Steve Austin and Jamie Summers. They had little motor cycles that you pumped and they went of of a ramp

Did Steve Austin get to pump Jamie??!

Not in my toybox! I ran a clean ship back in those days.

[S2M]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIdGDcWBsoc

[Triple S]

Pains me to admit this, but ... an Easy Bake Oven

At least you got one! I dreamed of getting one for a few years, I loved looking at the pictures of those little pink cakes and such that came out of them. Truth be told, I looked forward to getting clothes more than toys anyway. That could explain my life now - my husband does all the cooking and my clothes fill up 3 of the 4 closets in our house .

[Duncan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIdGDcWBsoc

Richochet Racers! I had that too!!

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[artist4perry]

I got my first art paint set at the age of 10. I was drawing since the age of 5.

[Jana]

Pains me to admit this, but ... an Easy Bake Oven

At least you got one! I dreamed of getting one for a few years, I loved looking at the pictures of those little pink cakes and such that came out of them. Truth be told, I looked forward to getting clothes more than toys anyway. That could explain my life now - my husband does all the cooking and my clothes fill up 3 of the 4 closets in our house .

I loved my Easy Bake Oven. I even bought my niece one, reliving my childhood. But I loved my beautiful Barbie doll case that opened up and I had rooms and funiture for my Barbies.

[nutz4Neal]

Oh Lordy, my fave memory was the Revlon doll, with real like skin & hair, or a walking doll that was my height.

What great Christmas morning memories.

[Don]

Space 1999 Eagle, another toy I was geeked to have.

[bluejeangirl76]

Closest I could find. I think I had had a slightly later version of it....

[Don]

Big Jim Rescue Rig

[zino]

I had the Emergency 51 Resuce truck with Johnny and Roy action figures.

[stevew2]

Mine was a Show and Tell.it was a record player that looked like a Tv .You would put film strips in it and it would tell a story and show pics on little screen which looked like a tv.it was so cool,later on i took the back off of it and would store my pot, and penthouse pics inside.I miss that fucker.i couldnt find any pics of it, or i would have posted one

[Michigan Girl]

Mine was a Show and Tell.it was a record player that looked like a Tv .You would put film strips in it and it would tell a story and show pics on little screen which looked like a tv.it was so cool,later on i took the back off of it and would store my pot, and penthouse pics inside.I miss that fucker.i couldnt find any pics of it, or i would have posted one

I am lmao!!!!
I had one of those too!!!! I didn't have the pot or penthouses though.....I was ripped off!!!