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Post by Harmless elf on Aug 22, 2019 19:08:39 GMT
to me that makes it a great toy because it's a bouncy ball that really bounces yay! Actually, they made smaller ones too... I had several that were about the size of a quarter... I liked taking mine into narrow (The narrower the better) hallways and throwing them "sideways" so that they would bounce several times back and forth between the walls... Small enclosed spaces worked best... When I think about how the first few bounces of the ball would go.... It reminds me a lot of that game "JezzBall" for Windows 95. I played jezzball as a kid I totally forgot about that game. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 22, 2019 19:25:54 GMT
Harmless elf, yes, I agree, but what I'm saying is the super-bounciness or elasticity of those balls could also serve as a real downside to them. I remember having one in elementary school and I used to throw it at this concrete wall and then try to catch it when it bounced back - and you had to be damned nimble and quick to catch the thing, because it shot back like a rocket. Well, one time I threw it a little too hard and it bounced back right over the roof of the schoolhouse behind me and I never saw it again. Oh well.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 23, 2019 0:19:13 GMT
Early 1950's Gilbert chemistry sets which came with all kinds of dangerous chemicals.
The Erector set.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 0:27:02 GMT
Fisher price little people!  Well except the dog, he was the bomb with those brows and mustache smiley dot face of his! They just didn't do much, except for fill in the holes in the cars, and fall over. Weebles, OTOH, they rock.... they wobble, but they don't..... well.... you know....  |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 23, 2019 1:36:33 GMT
I always thought Twister was really dumb.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 23, 2019 1:41:59 GMT
Sea monkeys!
They looked nothing like the package image.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Aug 23, 2019 2:00:12 GMT
Anybody remember a game called Blip? Basically it was a sort of electronic version of table tennis in which two players would use these three buttons to hit a small red dot back and forth; if a player didn't press one of the buttons fast enough, the dot would stop. This game was fun at first, but it got to the point when you realized the little dot would always go in the same directions, thus making it quite lame.  |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 23, 2019 2:31:02 GMT
Cabbage Patch Dolls - just ugly looking
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Post by Catman on Aug 23, 2019 2:36:27 GMT
Cabbage Patch Dolls - just ugly looking Catman remembers the Cabbage Patch Doll Wars. He also remembers when Coleco made computers.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 23, 2019 13:28:48 GMT
There were also a handful of 64K CPM based microcomputers that were nothing more than paperweights because their functionality was nil. They usually cam with 2 5 & 1/4 inch floppy drives.
KayPro and NorthStar come to mind.
I still own a fully functional ATARI 1200XL with a dozen game cartridges.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 13:45:02 GMT
There were also a handful of 64K CPM based microcomputers that were nothing more than paperweights because their functionality was nil. They usually cam with 2 5 & 1/4 inch floppy drives. KayPro and NorthStar come to mind. I still own a fully functional ATARI 1200XL with a dozen game cartridges. Those were your toys?? Holy crap, I wish I had been invited to your house!!
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Post by Harmless elf on Aug 23, 2019 15:23:59 GMT
Anybody remember a game called Blip? Basically it was a sort of electronic version of table tennis in which two players would use these three buttons to hit a small red dot back and forth; if a player didn't press one of the buttons fast enough, the dot would stop. This game was fun at first, but it got to the point when you realized the little dot would always go in the same directions, thus making it quite lame. A wind up pong game sounds like trash but I guess at the time it was something neat of course that's not one of those classic toys that stays around forever like a slinky, Jack in the box, or Play-Doh. |
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Post by redhorizon on Aug 23, 2019 16:10:46 GMT
 These boats almost always turn into useless floating objects the very first day of purchase. |
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Post by Marv on Aug 23, 2019 17:18:17 GMT
Anybody have those Velcro ball and mitt sets? A little bit of water and those things turn useless.
Those paddles with the red ball and rubber band that you just smack over and over again too we’re pretty worthless when I was growing up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 17:24:17 GMT
Anybody have those Velcro ball and mitt sets? A little bit of water and those things turn useless. Those paddles with the red ball and rubber band that you just smack over and over again too we’re pretty worthless when I was growing up. 
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Post by Harmless elf on Aug 23, 2019 17:40:36 GMT
Anybody have those Velcro ball and mitt sets? A little bit of water and those things turn useless. Those paddles with the red ball and rubber band that you just smack over and over again too we’re pretty worthless when I was growing up. Yes two terrible toys you play with once. The velcro ball thing you might as well have just played catch. And the paddle with the ball the ball breaks off pretty quickly. |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 23, 2019 17:53:00 GMT
I just remember tons of sniffable glue building airplane models of the world
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Post by msdemos on Aug 23, 2019 17:58:16 GMT
WHAM-O's Super Elastic Bubble Plastic Okay......this one was not really a "toy" (and DEFINITELY not "classic"), but close enough. And boy, did it BITE !! INCREDIBLY smelly, INCREDIBLY messy, and not only a pain to get it to "work", but once you did (IF you did!), you quickly realized you just spent a half-hour trying to blow up a glorified balloon.....and then also realized that a real balloon is much better, much stronger, and SO much easier in the long run, that there's absolutely NO reason to even bother with this crap in the first place !! Can't believe there were too many kids that ever played with this stuff a second time (if their mom's didn't beat them to the punch, by making sure it quickly got thrown out after the first use (given the tremendous mess it made by getting stuck to just about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING !!)) www.metv.com/lists/9-toys-from-the-1960s-that-would-be-deemed-too-dangerous-for-todays-kidsSAVE FERRIS
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Post by Captain Spencer on Aug 23, 2019 19:11:35 GMT
Anybody remember a game called Blip? Basically it was a sort of electronic version of table tennis in which two players would use these three buttons to hit a small red dot back and forth; if a player didn't press one of the buttons fast enough, the dot would stop. This game was fun at first, but it got to the point when you realized the little dot would always go in the same directions, thus making it quite lame. A wind up pong game sounds like trash but I guess at the time it was something neat of course that's not one of those classic toys that stays around forever like a slinky, Jack in the box, or Play-Doh. Yeah it's a relic of the late 70s, but it sure was popular when it first came out. I got it for Christmas.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 23, 2019 22:46:05 GMT
Etch A Sketch. Yeah, you can find all kinds of works of 'art' supposedly created with the device, but Catman doesn't believe it. I do believe that there are people out there who would happily waste a significant portion of their lives creating a drawing with an Etch A Sketch but the modern tablet or phone can now produce much better results in a fraction of the time. And of course there is always the pen and paper option.
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