Oh yeah, there was nothing like a good neighborhood baseball game, football game, kick the can or even smear the queer :)

I forgot...
But, I am an only child. If there was nobody outside, I either had to look like the neighborhood weird kid talking to myself or play with toys :)

So very true MML. I even had to restrict the kids from being "inside" the house a few times one summer.

Matchbox cars, legos, logs, erector set, before 10 and motorcycle/drums afterwards were mine

special mention to the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
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OMG as soon as "chores" were done, we zoomed outside. I was laughing at reading Simon's list cuz "kick the can" was at the top of mine. Once we moved back to the states and lived in the "church/parsonage" combo we had this huge parking lot that was empty during the week ..and a magnet for all the kids to hang out. My sister and I had many hours of "red rover", hide and seek, cowboys and Indians (where the indians always won!!) We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood now but you'd never know it cuz they never come out of the house.

Just like Jim I was an "only" so I depended on playing outside - kick the can, freeze tag, running the bases, hide-n-seek, baseball/softball and basketball were always in the works - even the winter was full of outdoor actvities. I lived in a "neighborhood" so there were plenty of us to go 'round.

My two cousins and I played with matchbox cars in my front yard all the time, it was pretty much sand. Many years later still find cars in the front yard from time to time.

I remember at the babysitters, she had a TON of lego's, seemed a never ending supply. She also had these big plastic tinker toy set, so big we use to build like houses, least they were really huge to me back then.

I was an only child too and living in the country, so pretty much on my own. Remember climbing trees and later on riding my motorcycle in the woods for hours.

I remember that Evil Kenenvil wind up toy too. Seems I remember it had a ramp that you wound it up on.

My computer was the radio shack color computer, also with the tape deck, high tech back then. My game system was the Intellivision, that thing pretty much sucked.

I always liked the original transformers, and also the stomper. Anyone remember these bad boys? http://www.stomper4x4.com/

Stompers were coo but wasnt there a "rough rider or something like that..where you could run em on the side of the rims? 2 wheel style.

yeah, i always called those stompers too. It was so long ago, hehe.

Me too! Woke up 5 in the morning everyday and built until daycare/school.

LEGO today sucks!

/Thomas

Favourite toy had to of been my pecker, i was always fascinated how far it stretched, even though doing that payed off in later life i think the only thing i'd achieve by doing it now is watery eyes. :D

Nintendo Entertainment System. I nearly played that thing until my thumbs couldn't play anymore. Now I have a Wii, but I tend to play the virtual console more than the newer stuff.

You would just love my hubby .... he still has his talking football game. Has not taken it out in a while, but was working fine as of last year.

"The blitz is on! The quarterback is sacked - 10 yards back ...... FUMBLE!"

That phrase is embedded in my head forever. |jester|

If it could hurt you or burn you, or was sciencey, I had it and loved it.

Creepy crawlers, that vacuum forming plastic heating toy, I forget what it was called, bb guns, pellet guns, bows and arrows, chemistry sets, telescopes - those were what I remember most. There was this great shooting game, with a blowgun and a toy gun that shot these odd sticky darts, that we playd with for months.

Barn ball in the big open space on the upper floor of the barn - a basketball hoop nailed to the grain bin, and you had to figure out how to bounce the ball off of uneven floor boards.

Actual guns weren't considered toys, but I got my first shotgun at 12, a .22 at 14, and a deer rifle at 16. I grew up shooting clay pigeons from an early age.

Grew up on a farm mostly as well, and my great grandfather gave me his .22 for my 12th birthday, it's still a great gun, about 100 years old, semi-auto, great for partridge.
I really enjoyed the chemistry set though, the instructions said NOT to mix two particular chemicals together, so I did. No explosions, but it did make a helluva mess!
Hot Wheels and model airplanes were my other favourites.

Kerri - the girl next door. |thumb

I had one of those. Oh man, haven't thought about that in years!!

I know what you mean. We played so much we knew the outcome before the record stopped. :D