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Originally posted by Stitch Groover:
I didn't know there was a slinky song!

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Enjoy Stitch:

http://www.4physics.com/phy_demo/slinky/song.htm
 

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Posted by major (Member # 7478) on :
 
Try this one ... slinky song
 

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Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
 
i keep all of my toys in my kids room, including my slinky and other assorted 80's toys.

i still have those games like rubiks cube, this rubiks type puzzle that looks like a pyramid, another one that looks like a column and has different colored chain links, and i still have this one that i don't know what its called, but its long and straight and two different shades of green and you can make orbs or snake heads and other dumb stuff with it. i also have my mattel2 football game and am currently looking for the old head to head football game.
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 
I remember the pyramid puzzle. I also had the Missing Link puzzle and snake puzzle thing. They were very cool.
 

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Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
 
Slinky's rule! Along with glow balls, lite bright, spyrograph, etch a sketch, all that good stuff.
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
I have a missing link puzzle.

I like in the movie Tango and Cash, when Sylvester Stallone wraps his cellmate in a slinky.
 

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Posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel (Member # 7480) on :
 
Yeah I forgot the trouble that my brother, my sister, and I would have getting the slinky to go more than just a few steps. We would always have it somehow just falling to the side and rolling down the steps...sad.

I had an Etch a Sketch but I think I was showing my sister a thing I drew on it and it fell into the sink when she was doing dishes. After the gray stuff is gone, those things look complex!

I played with Play-Doh more than the Silly Putty. I got some from my friend got me some for my 19th birthday last month actually!
(And if you try, you CAN tell the different colours of Play-Doh by their smell. I've seen it done)
 

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Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
 
we always had slinky's when we were little loved them along with silly putty and jacks and jump ropes the original slinky is still the best though the plastic ones they have out now are terrible lol dee
 

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Posted by major (Member # 7478) on :
 
My favorites were 'kerbangers' and 'stompers', though, I always ended up with bruises all over my arms from those damn 'kerbangers'.
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
I thought Kerbangers were cool.

What is a stomper?

Are those the cup things that you stood on top of and tried to walk in?

I bought a pair of Moon shoes for my son, off Ebay...about 5 years ago....he about broke his leg trying to do them. Do you guys remember them? You strapped them on your feet, then you could jump really high.

For the past few years when my son would tell us what he wanted for Christmas...I'd think...whatever happened to toys?

When I went to find a toy for my 3 year old niece for her birthday this year....I had no idea what to get her.

Today's toys stink. I hate Bratz dolls...they should be band.

I was always happy playing the Jaws game, or with trading cards...or I had a pot holder maker, and a rock tumbler, and I had my Creepy Crawler machine.

We use to make snow cones. I had a Pet Rock. There were so many cool novelty things.

I loved the year I got a hand held Pac-Man game.

My brother use to play with Legos and Matchbox cars...and Tonka Trucks. He had a little bulldozer and would go out and clean the streets with it.

I loved playing Perfection and Connect Four.

Me and my mom still play Scrabble and Boggle during the winter. I use to do puzzles all the time too. I have some now that I have been wanting to do for years, and just haven't got around to it.

I swear part of the words problems are because nobody plays any more.
 

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Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
I remember a year or two ago I was going to buy those Moon Shoes for my nephews and ISIS told me they sucked so I didn't. Hahaha! How time flies!

Those colorful plastic slinkys were pretty - but they never worked as well as the metal ones , so they sorta sucked!

The metal ones were great til they got a "kink" in 'em and then - GAME OVER! This is defiantely a toy for grown-ups. The second you let your kid play with slinky slinky gets kink and it's all over but the crying!

We just paved in our whole yard and now I'm looking for fun stuff for the kids to do out there. Has anyone heard of BLONGO BALL aka LADDER GOLF? It's sort of like horseshoes. Well, the kid across the street had it and we instantly fell in love with it and bought a set. NO ONE can walk past this thing - kids, adults, - without playing it! If my husband goes out back to throw out the garbage he starts playing it!

There is a NERF football now that comes with colored bands and you play "Keep Away" with it. All the kids have different colored bands on and the ball "tells" you "Keep Away From Green" and you all have to try to keep the green kid from the ball, etc. I think I'm gonna order that for Christmas.

The other day I dropped off one of my daughters friends and the girl showed me her skateboard and her pogo stick. Now THATS what I like to see! Good old fashioned toys like we used to play with!

Have you guys seen RIP-STICKS? Its this skateboard thing all the kids in my neihborhood have. Only problem is it goes for about $80. No thanks! I want it, but not THAT bad!

My daughter just got invited to a birthday party at a roller rink (we dont have roller rinks near me anymore - this ones in Long Island) and she's like "I dont know how to skate!" OhmyGd, at her age I was like Tootie from FACTS OF LIFE- my skates never came off! I have bought her skates and heelies and its not MY fault she refuses to learn how! I havent skated in about 7 years ...but I'm thinkin of buying myself skates again (Old School - not Rollerblades)
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
I had some people stay here over the summer that were playing Ladder Ball-I had never heard of it before...but it sounds like fun.

I never played Bocce until this summer...it was alot of fun too.

I had a pogo stick, stilts, we played with our hula hoop....

I just got a weighted hula hoop this past year...if you do it regularly it pounds your stomach down flat.

It is sad to hear kids can't roller skate...we tried to take my son, because I love it so much...the first time he fell, he fell hard and cracked his tail bone...and that was that.

I fell off my bike and fell out of trees, and fell off my skate board...you just get a band-aid and go back out there.
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 
I loved Kerbangers. I think they banned making them now, for obvious reasons. I got knocked in the head with them numerous times as a kid.
 

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Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
 
I listened to the slinky song, and while I haven't haven't heard it before, I thought the song sounded familiar - it was the same tune as "International Log" from Ren and Stimpy!
 

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Posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel (Member # 7480) on :
 
So for one I never would have connected Slinkys to Ren and Stimpy...man that's been forever!

ISIS, you mentioned Perfection. My dad bought that game for my brother, my sister, and I after we begged and begged and begged him into buying it out of pure annoyance. We never played it right though. We would set the tymer and run and pretend it was a bomb But sometymes the 'bomb' would be put next to me and my siblings would run away so I would get blown up.

Another really sad thing with the Rollerskates is that my 21 year old boyfriend can only RollerBLADE he can't do the skates. I rock at them and was actually thinking of joining a Roller Derby team but you have to be 21 to join the Grand Rapids Roller Girls...sadness.

Oh! And I have one of those old school Pogo Sticks that has the tassles on the handles and says Hoppity Stick on the sticker. I love it!

I still remember the Giga Pets tidal wave that happened. I accidentally killed my Koala, left it outside and it rained. Oops.
 

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Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
 
I remember the year RAZOR scooters became popular wa sthe year I bought my house - about 9 years ago. I had never seen them before and I lived in an apartment in a very busy neighborhood (that is now referred to as "little Manhatten"...so that oughta tell you how busy it is!) and when i went to look at the house I live in now there were kids riding "scooters" up and down the block. It just seemed so wholesome, like beckoning back to LEAVE IT TO BEAVER days. I swear a big part of the reaosn I bought the house I did was that the kids out f4ront had scooters and skates and a hula hoop. It was like :LOOK - NORMAN ROCKWELL HOME!!!!!

So theres some advice for you people trying to sell your house- pay the kids on your block to run past there with skates and hula hoops and kites and stuff!
 

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Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
 
we play ladder ball here too that is a fun game and very addicting i remember i use to have the purple kerbonkers and i use to kill myself with them too bruises all over the place they finally took them off the market too many injury's lol dee
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
YECBSC-I am so glad that you can remember alot of this stuff....when I saw your myspace page...I was shocked to see your age...your so young...you must have been born around 1989 or 1990...that's the same year I met my husband...your old enough to be my kid. Actually my kid is only 3 years younger than you.
But...I tried to get my son to like alot of stuff that I did from the 80s.

I collect 80's memorbilia...so I have things like The Mad magazine Card Game, a Coleco Donkey Kong mini arcade game, I have tons of board games from when I was a kid. I remember when my son was little...we bought him "Operation", and when the tweezers would touch the metal and you'd get zapped...he would completely spaz out...he hated that game.

There just was so much stuff back in the 80s. I always think of Christmas time. My brother loved Animal from the Muppets, and he got the Muppet drum set one year for Christmas. He used to have lots of toys...he had GI Joe stuff, and
I remember getting a spirograph and the HoneyHill Bunch, and I remember my friends getting Cabbage Patch Kids and Holly Hobbie stuff-has anyone seen the new Holly Hobbie...she looks like a hippie not like from Little House on the Prairie.

Do you guys remember those tunnels that you could crawl through? They flattened down to be put away...we played with those constantly.

There were so many toys in the 80s, for every season. In the summer we played with the sprinkler...with the slip and slide...we had those ball things that you sat on and they had a handle, and we'd race each other on them...bouncing down the street.

In the winter time...we always went snow tubing and sled riding, and ice skating and snowmobile riding and we built snow forts. I remember getting this brick maker thing to make igloo bricks, we would stay outside all day long. We went inside to eat some Campbell's soup and a toasted cheese sandwich and then back out we went.

I was never bored in the 80s. I don't know how I ever had time to watch TV. But we did. It just seemed like everything was so carefree and layed back, and you didn't have to plan everything, you just lived your life and had fun.

I remember in school, we use to have Christmas parties at our lunch table, and my friends and I would exchange names...you could buy each other cool stuff for under $5.00. I remember those cool purses with the wooden handles were what everyone had when I was in the 7th grade. We use to buy each other stuff like...different pop flavored lip gloss-like Dr. Pepper, those barrettes with the feathers and the beads on the sides, we got each other 45 records, rubik's cube keychains, Garfield figurines, Smurf Figurines, E.T. stuff, scratch n sniff stickers, garbage pail kid trading cards, slime, bangle bracelets, or sets of earrings.

Did you guys ever make friendship pins? I remember doing that.

I swear there was a ton of symbolisim in the 80s.

I miss ALL of it now.
 

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Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
 
The Slinky song; the only memorable gag from Ace Ventura 2.

Slinkys are the Quentin McCould of the toy world: they shall live forever...

Another great table top game was 'Kong', don't know if you guys remember: it was a big yellow mountain, with a magnetic ball you had to guide to the top where this giant robot gorilla used to spin around. Hours of fun...until it broke.
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 

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Originally posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel:
I rock at them and was actually thinking of joining a Roller Derby team but you have to be 21 to join the Grand Rapids Roller Girls...sadness.

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Originally posted by jdocster:
Aaaaah, Slinky's and a good yoyo... Life didn't get any better than that...

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Originally posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel:
Does anyone know the Nintendo game Kid Icarus?

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Kid Icarus rocked! I loved NES back in the day....I would play hours a day on it.


 

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Posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel (Member # 7480) on :
 
I LOVE IT! I used to have pages in a note book with some of those 4 line codes to get back to the level you were on.

I always get mad and shut it off because I'll start dying in really stupid ways (like trying to jump over something and falling off the edge, you know?)

I think I had the codes written down to the Lemmings game on my mom's old computer too. Yeah. Lemmings. I got to rule them. I miss my mom's like DOS computer with its floopy disc games. Or just like the pre-frogger like thing with the little yellow bird esque guy crossing traffic.
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 
One of my favorite games on NES was Rygar. The thing that sucked was the fact that you couldn't save your game. I had to play like 10 hours straight to beat that game. Another tough one(probably the toughest NES game ever)was Ghosts N' Goblins. I sat there for some 15 hours to beat it, and then found out....you have to beat it again to win! Forget that....I was done after that.
 

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Posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel (Member # 7480) on :
 
well I have Super Ghouls and Ghosts I think...I used to watch my dad play it alot. I haven't heard of Rygar though, I don't think. I do have some pretty random games though, like Marble Madness and Festers Quest. They are random but goodies, most definately.
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
My favorite Sega Genesis game just came out for the Wii, and I just downloaded it the other day. It is Earthworm Jim. I love that game. Does anyone remember it?
 

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Posted by TKO (Member # 1471) on :
 
I never heard of Nintendo's Kid Icarus game. The ones I loved to play didn't even have color screens yet. Not exactly the same as my son's PSP, but I had hours of fun with these ones (still have 'em btw ):






 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 
I had those handheld games too TKO. I also had a Q-bert game wrist-watch. Loads of fun.

[ 07. November 2008, 20:56: Message edited by: 80'sRocked ]
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
I have a Qbert puzzle. Those were the days of cool video games. Now everything is guns, guns and more guns. I keep thinking about kids today...and how when we were that age...we played Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, Centipede, Dig Dug, Space Invaders and Asteroids....and what's wrong with those now? Kids say they are boring.

I just was talking to my friend on the phone, she called me to see if I was still alive..and she told me about on the front page of today's paper...they showed a 15 year old girl who tried to poison her own mother by sticking cleaning solution in her milk.

Then my friend was telling me about this kid who was text messenging her son, and harrassing him...through text messages....he was doing it from in school...and they aren't suppose have access to their cell phones, but apparently he would sneek in to the bathroom...I said I don't understand why kids are even permitted to have cell phones on them, and she said I want my kid to have one, incase there is ever a school shooting. Because they happen all the time.

I swear if more kids played with slinkies and silly putty...this stuff would not be happening...to me it is the worst part about living now...is kids have no childhood anymore.

They need to be playing tag outside in the fresh air, with their friends, and riding their bikes to the arcade, and playing football in the yard, and sleeping out in their sleeping bags, and making lemonade stands, and all that fun stuff.

Since I have been sick...and so has my mom, I have been going in and laying on her bed and we talk about when I was growing up...because she is still my mom and thinks she needs to take care of me...and we were talking about different things that happened when I was a kid...and reminiscing about our family, and everything about that time period is so clear in my mind. I said...I barely remember my own child's childhood...but I remember every detail of my own...and even though my kid had a billion toys...I can't picture any toy that he absolutely was attacted to...except he had a little dirt devil sweeper and a Proton Pack from Ghostbusters- those were his favorite things...but I remember playing and playing constantly.
 

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Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
 

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Originally posted by 80'sRocked:
I had those handheld games too TKO. I also had a Q-bert game wris****ch. Loads of fun.

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that's the funniest thing i've ever seen.

this site even hates dirty words inside clean words.
 

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Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
 
Dos anybody remember Dapper Dan? And Dressy Bessy?

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Posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel (Member # 7480) on :
 
ISIS-I remember Earthworm Jim! We didn't have that one but a family friend did so we would just borrow it.

Did you ever have the game Flicky for Sega Genisis? Or The Ooze?

I really love Flicky but my parents friends gave it away.
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 

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Originally posted by xchazx:
that's the funniest thing i've ever seen.

this site even hates dirty words inside clean words.

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That was too funny....I justed noticed that and had to edit my post....I'm still laughing! Gotta love the auto-editors. Can I type that? I better check
 

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