Too bad. It would have been somehow appropriate it there had been a mystery. I love mysteries like that. A bit spooky but also kind of reassuring in a way.
lol, the search function always does that.
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Now you've gone and really ruined it, Craven. I really preferred to think there was something mysterious going on. You and your darn reality.
My brother and I spent most of today working on a petrol engined remote control race car. I can't remember having many toys better than that.
Your favourite toy was a snorkle? Do a lot of diving Deb?
No - one of my favourite expressions of amusement is a cross between a snort and a chuckle!
I would like to dive some day - but scuba dive - rather than snorkle.
I would not mind a tank with sea-horses as a toy, though - I could pretend to snorkle...
So have some of my other toys been!!!!! ~:> D
When I was a kid there were no computer games, so my favorite toy was a small model of Kalashnikov assault rifle...
We thought our first TV game consoles were so cool!
And to make it harder, you could increase the angles the dot bounced at and shorten your "paddles"
Asteroids was black and white with about 4 or 5 different flows and about the same number of speeds.
They came out in bars and stuff, TV screens - some flat like tables. Paid 50 cents or so to play a game. Next to come out was space invaders (I'll get corrected on that one-ha).
:::Dredging up an ancient topic, just in time for Christmas shopping:::
My favorite toy was crayons and paper, and any kind of art supplies.
My Lionel train had a rocket launcher and an exploding box-car...ultimate cool. Oh, and smoke came out of the smokestack.
Cinnesthesia...
Thanks for reviving this thread. It was a lot of fun and going back over it brought back some good memories...Art supplies. Something my daughter is never without. She's always drawing or sketching something - or painting. Right now, in her art class they were given a choice of painting either a portrait or a landscape. Everyone in her class is painting a landscape - but her - she's painting a portrait of Cyndi Lauper using an outrageous picture of her that was in Rolling Stone not too long ago. She's good.
Asteroids...didn't Pong come out before Asteroids? Boy, we thought that was so cool when it came out. Then when Asteroids came out - well, that was incredible! LOL!!!
Plastic bricks. Red, about the size of a standard domino, but with the ability to interlock horizontally or vertically. I started out with a few hundred of them at age four and had several thousand by the time I was ten and gave them up. I would build these huge structures, sometimes taking the time to sketch them out on paper, but usually just building one piece on another based on some design concept in my head.
Looking back, from a distance of 50 years later, I would have enjoyed being an architect. Sadly, though, that artistic side of my brain never got the stimulus it needed. Instead, I got into in the business end of building things. How do you make the numbers work with regards to land cost, financing, return on investment, etc.
But I do miss my red plastic bricks, about the size of dominoes...rjb
