following on from the big trak thread what toys do you remember having as kids, few of mine

big trak
stop boris (big spider you had to shoot with an infra red gun)
tcr and scalextric
astrowars
the winch radio controlled jeep
matchbox cars with meters and meters of track

loads of other will come flooding back no doubt

 

Mousetrap
Guess who
Boggle
Subbuteo
Arcade games like After Burner/Operation Wolf/Outrun

 

To be honest i wasnt really a lego, action man, mechano type of boy, it bored me to tears i had to have remote cars or the newest bike, something more hands on, or scalextrics etc.

Ohh i can still smell the burning that used to come from the inside of the plastic hand controllers from using it so much

 

crossfire
rough riders

 

Not alot cause my mam and dad wouldnt be we owt lol.I had loads of toy cars though.

I had a dukes of hazard scaletrix track.

 

Remember playing these, along with some already mentioned

Kerplunk
Frustration
Monopoly
Buckaroo
Connect 4
Speak n Spell

 

Loved astrowars

I had a TCR always wanted the dukes of hazard set lol

anyone remember them Tomy LCD games that you looked through like binoculars!!

arcade games like, chase hq, double dragon Kung Fu master,

 

glow in the dark track with a loop the loop for my matchbox cars,tonka car transporter i could sit on and ride down a hill close to me and a big tonka digger!

 

Shinobi on hand-held game was excellent. i was defo a Lego and mechano man. Although had lots of r/c cars.

 

I had a TCR too. Someone told me that to clean the tracks, you simply rub a coin across them. It did work, but once I forgot to unplug it first. Fucked.

Astro Wars (Hand-held game) was the nuts, I think I still have mine somewhere.

I remember having a fucking great bike-light too, which was like a flag-pole that went down by the rear wheel and the whole thing illuminated.

 

i remember the tomy lcd game, the old man would allways put his hand over the panel on the top when i was playing it and it would go dark and you couldnt see the game lol

 

loads of raleigh burners all sorts of other bmxs,spectrum computer

 

micromachines
carrier command on my atari ST
kinder eggs

 

He Man castle, Knight Rider radio controlled car, My Raleigh Burner and i was happy i had loads of toys that i can't remember not as many as the kids of today though but the best thing about been an 80's child was having the freedom we can't give the kids of today. When i was growing up i had my bike my motocrosser a skateboard and that was me i was happy i was never in not even the rain kept me in lol

 

What's the name of the IR/laser guns like laser quest but just a gun that strapped on your arm. Came in red or green. anyone remember?

 

Quasar? rings a bell

 

Transformers, found an old one the other day in the loft fuck knows what it is called though!

Anyone else remember almost dying daily using a pogoball?

Ginge

 

spectrum 48k not mine me mates, played jet set willy to death on it

 

Spectrum mint. still in my mums loft lol

 

Optimus prime!!!always wanted one but typical of my parents they went out on Xmas eve to buy one.......don't think so.they did the usual shit and talked me into having a Sinclair spectrum instead,but not rubber key model.drrrrrrrrrrrreek,drrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeedeeeee eeeeeek,ten minutes later a game loaded that's realistically available on all but the shitest mobiles now......but I loved it!!!

 

I had a raliegh grifter in silver weighed a ton, then I got a mongoose bmx was king of street with that bad boy!!

 

Frogger FTW! The one in the little yellow arcade type case.

 

BIG TRAK is coming back, woohoo

http://www.bigtrak.tv/products/Bigtrak.html

 

Fook me spent hours and fooking hours on carrie command on the ST

 

spectrum 48k (caught fire playing operation wolf ) spectrum +3 game lol
millenium falcon unused mint , been nicked off me though, inc dark vader n co
mini burner bmx
dukes of hazard , boss hog and loads of other cars .

Still got an alomo fort never used it tho it is very old pre 80,s for sure

 

I had a diamond back bmx that I bought myself out of Xmas money in 1985!!cost me £160,plus the money for pegs and dice dustcaps I shit you not!!!My cousin had a mongoose,spoilt cunt!!!

 

i had a escort rally scalextric, 2 xr3's was awsome, had all the lights and everything lol. got bought 2 raicng sierras, audi ur quattro, and the police range rover and sierra sapphire, them there was the matchbox motorway plastic road sets, must of been 300+ matchbox cars, optimus prime and bumblebee toys, micromachines, dungeons and dragons, my bros were into warhammer and all that crap. 80's rocked!!!!

 

If you had a grifter you was something special. I always wanted one, a kid like 3 years older than me (the neighbourhood hardkid) had one and it was the nuts.

He used to let me go on it and i dreamed of owning one, How sad lol

 

loads of action figures lol, m.a.sk, he-man, thundercats, dino riders and centurions, carnt forget my transformers as i still have them now as i buy and sell them and i had a gi joe uss flagg which is in my attic now that was toy, 7ft long, 3ft wide 2ft tall aircraft carrier

and a rally burner and some black bike that had something on it that made noises

 

My brother had a hoffman which was the nuts at the time, i had a bit of a special diamond back.

never as good as his though. He was the only kid in the area with a hoffman, was about 5-600 if i remeber rightly, Think that was probably 90s though.

My mate had a haro the yellow one.

I ended up buying a GT with mag wheels at one point.

Everybody had to have alex rims at one time.

 

Ohh that thing, when people said bigtrak i just ignored it because i didnt have a clue, but after clicking the link i remember that i think it was pretty expensive back in the day? more than £40 i bet

 

bet if it was 40 quid back in the day, that was a weeks wages wasnt it..

 

I had/have the scalectrix 3dr cosworth one. Texaco and shell cars.
Had the bigfoot monster truck with the red and yellow contols on the top of it. I remember that black bmx with the noise thing in the middle. Was never alowed one. I'm sure it was called wild cat or something similar.

 

I had.....




and

 

Wrist Racers, had the dukes of hazard set, boss hoggs, and the general

 

anyone remember zoids?
robot dinosaurs that you built up

 

Jesus!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DENYS-FISHER-K...#ht_600wt_1139

 

we had summut called lazar tag black guns vest with a sensor and helmets you could also get a cap but we didnt have them

 

yep, had some gorilla thing, and white and blue liger