My favourite toy

Sillybilly

McBobbin said:

My mate got the subbutteo astro pitch. Saved me hours of ironing

He also had his dad's collection of subbutteo rugby and hockey, which was odd.

Did anyone else have striker, when you kicked the ball by pressing the players heads?

Yep. Had striker. Was great but unfortunately I was a bad tempered little shit and occasionally banged the head a little too hard when losing! Broke a few players.

floydroadfaithfull

Anna_Kissed said:

Looks lovely and fresh

addix

I still have my Meccano set from the 80s

(my first PC was also the Speccy 48k)

MuttleyCAFC

and this

cabbles

ricky_otto said:

blackpool72 said:

ricky_otto said:

Was at the design museum in Kensington yesterday and saw this.

How many times did you look it

4 - but some lard arse walked in front of me the 4th time.

Not this model but

i_b_b_o_r_g

MuttleyCAFC

anybody got a potato?

CharltonKerry

Magnetic football game brought for me Xmas 1962, best present ever.

MuttleyCAFC

Anybody remember this?

Bigbadbozman

Talisman 1984ish

Exiled_Addick

Physical toy, probably this (among other Transformers):



or this:



In terms of actual amount of time 'playing something', though, it would easily be this:



on this:

cantersaddick

Never managed to post a photo on here....

But lego was the one.

Beyblade in a distant second.

MuttleyCAFC

Exiled - Got a dingoo A320 this Christmas - Plays a perfect game of Sensi (both Megadrive and SNES versions).

ricky_otto

CharltonKerry said:

Magnetic football game brought for me Xmas 1962, best present ever.

I bet Charlton still haven't beaten Millwall on it.

Exiled_Addick

MuttleyCAFC said:

Exiled - Got a dingoo A320 this Christmas - Plays a perfect game of Sensi (both Megadrive and SNES versions).

Inferior version but cheers anyway Muttley ;-) . I am able to play it on my PC but I may look into one of these things.

seth plum

JiMMy 85

MuttleyCAFC

Exiled_Addick said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

Exiled - Got a dingoo A320 this Christmas - Plays a perfect game of Sensi (both Megadrive and SNES versions).

Inferior version but cheers anyway Muttley ;-) . I am able to play it on my PC but I may look into one of these things.

The Megadrive plays better than the Snes IMO - It does stand up to the Amiga version! Plays gameboy, gameboy advance, nes, master system, Snes and Megadrive games. Just download the roms - many come pre-loaded but I had to add sensible. You can also connect to your TV - but the downside is that you can only play one player! Apparently there is a Speccy emulator but it wasn't pre-loaded and I haven't got round to that yet.

AFKABartram

AFKABartram

AFKABartram

McBobbin

guinnessaddick

AFKABartram said:

Short leg?

cantersaddick

AFKABartram said:

Absolutely quality game. My dad had his one from when he was younger but had adapted it using the same fielders and batsmen but a different bowling mechanism. The pitch was bigger too...

AFKABartram said:

Had this one too! Was certain my brother was fixing it though. He never failed to hit a century!

AFKABartram

I cant remember too much about my childhood but I distinctly remember buying Owzat on a trip 'up London' to Hamleys. Had hours of fun writing out England v West Indies innings !

AFKABartram

creepyaddick

loved these!

guinnessaddick

Crossfire

eaststandmike

Exiled_Addick said:

Physical toy, probably this (among other Transformers):



or this:



In terms of actual amount of time 'playing something', though, it would easily be this:



on this:

I have just sold one of those pirate ship lego sets for £180.00 on eBay.

MuttleyCAFC

I had a version of crossfile which had The red baron and a Sopwith camel on each side and you had to shoot out struts under the wings with the bearings. Nobody believes me and I can't find any pics, but I had it! I didn't dream it.

In terms of Raving Bonkers - my problem was that my Blue robot had a bit of a glass jaw!