Remember When...

[a-l]

I remember all the guns particularly the spud on as I was always my brother's target . Also for his pea shooters !              This summer I actually taught some kids to play elastic ! Bless them they are now addicted.                                                         Skipping was played with the rope holders on opposite sides of the road (no traffic then) and all the kids joined in.                   Another street game was rounders . kids from one half of the street challenged the other .

[Greensleeves]

I too remember the guns as I had two brothers.  When I was quite small I used to follow my elder brother and his friends into the woods and they would get fed up with me.  So they would tell me that I was their captive, tie me to a tree, and run away.  Fortunately they always came back to release me.

[Maggie.]

Subuteo - has that cropped up here yet? 

I remember my brother had the football game of Subuteo and the whole family became obsessed with it.  The green baize 'football pitch' would be spread out on the floor and we would all be on our knees scrabbling around the pitch flicking the little men at the little plastic ball to move it up the pitch and score.  I was 5 years younger than brother so not much use at scoring goals but I loved playing with those little footballers on their semi circular bases.

[JenB]

Bayko  we have a set of that at my parents house. Apparently it sells at toy fairs these days if its in good condition.

My husband has still got his precious Bayko building blocks, in their original boxes 

[Treetotal]

Carol,

re The Magic Robot Game. It's primary name was the Magic Robot Quiz Game but one of its alternate names was.....

Confucius Say: Magnetic Quiz Game. It had a lot of other alternate names as well.

Link to some details about it here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17568/magic-robot-quiz-game

Kind regards

David

Thanks for that David...Yes it brought back memories 

Lots of nostalgia here and it's great to hear all the familiar toys and games from the past...keep 'em coming...I am adding them to a spreadsheet 

Dress up dolls was a great way to past a wet afternoon...I also had a jewellery making kit that I loved...lots of coloured gems attached to plastic rods that you snapped off to make rings and things...also "Pick up Sticks"....and the favourites in our house used to be Lego...and Meccano....hours of entertainment here.

I do remember having a tin wind up penguin that waddled along and laid eggs!!!

Carol

[Wiggy]

Ah yes - pick up sticks!!  and marbles/alleys/allys  (?sp)

and Meccano - and Dad had a very special Donkey Engine which came out on special occasions to drive Meccano engines, pumps etc.   that was pretty good!!   

[Maggie.]

I do remember having a tin wind up penguin that waddled along and laid eggs!!!

I had a plastic hen, I'm sure it's brand name was Hetty The Hen.  you pressed down on its head to make it squat down and each time you pressed it laid an egg.  Great fun.

And here it is:-

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0x0p/

[Treetotal]

Oh yes...I remember something like that too Maggie....and the free little toys from cereal packets...A Pluto type dog with moveable legs that walked if you put it on a sloping surface....and a small scribbling pad with a peel back plastic sheet to erase the drawing...I think they came with "Lucky Bags" 

Carol

[Greensleeves]

Not sure how old I was - probably about eight or nine - when I got the best book ever for Christmas.  I have no idea what it was called, sadly.  It was a book of children's stories each one of which had one of those pop-up illustrations: you opened the two pages out to their full extent and a scene jumped up, and by moving the pages up and down something in the scene moved.  One was of a toucan on a log and when you moved the book its beak pecked and there was a sawing sound which came from sandpaper inserted on the card.  Another was a fairy house with see-through windows and when you held it up to the light you could see a real fairy reflected onto the far wall.  How exciting was that!  I do wish I still had that book, it was a true work of art.