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      07-15-2022, 06:28 PM   #67
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Anyone remember these? I used to have so many.

I sometimes remember an event, when I probably experienced for the first time being a victim of theft. I was just a kid having a little 'garage sale' at my house and this other little kid came by and was checking out all my Game & Watches for sale on the table. He then asked me if I had more stuff and I went inside to get them. When I came back out, he was still there and we chatted some more, but I later found out that there was a game or two missing after he left. What a little sh*t, being a criminal at that young of an age. Talk about a loss of innocence when I realized that some ppl were capable of that kinda stuff.


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1. Saturday afternoon matinees featuring Mighty Mouse and the Three Stooges.

2. 1957 Chevy Bel-Airs.

3. A & W

4. Foster's Freeze.

5. Drive-In movies with hang it on your window speakers.

6. $.29 a gallon gasoline.

7. Monochrome TV.

8. The draft.

9. Yamaha 175cc Enduro motorbike.

10. My 1964 Corvair Monza

11. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

12. Kites.

13. Tree swings.

14. Tree forts.

...and much, much more.
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I`m sure that I`m forgetting a lot of them.
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I`m sure that I`m forgetting a lot of them.
Yes Sir Dino GT ! Pong and Marbles. Could only figure three sides of the Rubics Cube.
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Yes Sir Dino GT ! Pong and Marbles. Could only figure three sides of the Rubics Cube.
There's different methods of solving the Rubik's cube.
I used to be pretty good at it
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Yes Sir Dino GT ! Pong and Marbles. Could only figure three sides of the Rubics Cube.
Speaking of marbles, do you guys remember the video game Marble Madness? Was a lot of fun.
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So many memories in this thread.
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Had my fair share of these back in the day -
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My first remote control car, similar to this one, came from Radio Shack. It had no steering, only forward and reverse. It only turned when you reversed, always to the left.
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Logged a lot of miles in the backseat of one of these as a kid (same boring color). The car got totalled one late night in the middle of rural nowhere Ohio when a guy in a stolen car didn't stop at a crossroad and we t-boned him. I flew over the front seat and went face first into the dash and broke a tooth. Seat belts? We didn't need seat belts back then! The other guy asked if we were okay and then ran off into the darkness. The state trooper piled us all into his cruiser and drove us 30 miles to my aunt and uncle's house.
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Speaking of marbles, do you guys remember the video game Marble Madness? Was a lot of fun.
I never played that game, but I played a lot of these games.
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3. A & W
I was just a young boy, but I clearly remember going to A&W and seeing all those beautiful girls on roller-skates bringing everyone frosty rootbeers. That was pure bliss back then (and would be today).

It makes me miss the diners of old as well, with the long counter right in front of the cool, the sparkle red swivel seats, the cook turning around to ask you exactly how you wanted your meal cooked and then handing it right to you.

I really miss that kind of thing.
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I never played that game, but I played a lot of these games.
Flight 2000 was my pinball game of choice. BTW what does it mean when the image of my favourite machine is credited to the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum? Am I getting old? Surely not.
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Speaking of marbles, do you guys remember the video game Marble Madness? Was a lot of fun.
I never played that game, but I played a lot of these games.
One that I noticed in your top pic all the way to the right is a game called Qix. Does anybody remember that one? Was different than most games and a lot of fun. I played it a lot.
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Some childhood faves...
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Anyone remember these? I used to have so many.

I do. I never had any but my classmates did. Of those pictured I played the egg collection one.

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I sometimes remember an event, when I probably experienced for the first time being a victim of theft.
I remember mine exactly. My sledge, left at the kindergarten's entrance, was stolen. Even worse than just that, the replacement was far less convenient to use. Since then I hate thieves most wholeheartedly and I deny their right to live.

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My first remote control car, similar to this one, came from Radio Shack. It had no steering, only forward and reverse. It only turned when you reversed, always to the left.
My first remote control car was a rally version of the real car I already had. It had steering, but it was too clumsy to play in a room and I didn't really like to play outside even when I was a kid.
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Had to be done
No... no it didn't.
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...and a pocket full of marbles.
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...and a pocket full of marbles.
Boy, did I get in trouble with one of those. But what fun.
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We used to strap model rocket engines to them and set the rings about 200 ft "down range". Never came close to a ringer but we sure laughed a lot. Burned our fingers on occasion. Oh and nobody died.
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