[Michael Piziak]

Enjoy reading all of these!
Thought I'd add some childhood toys:

Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars of course!
Star Wars action figures - have still thought about buying some more off of the auction site!
Tonka Toys/trucks
Mattel Electronics hand held basketball, hockey, and football games
Atari 2600 replaced later by Intellivision

Oh, and for any nostalgic 8 bit computer users that liked the computer magazine called "Compute!", here are the magazines in pdf form - quite a find!
Compute! Magazine Archive : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

[Just1MoreDave]

For my 12th birthday a set of Marples carving chisels....50 years on still use them.
Things were built to last....fathers chose great gifts.

The Marples history is extensive. The top chisel is from the 1930s - the stamp just says Sheffield. The 1938 catalog calls these "Extra Strong". I don't think I'm going to wear them out.

[gofour3]

We used to like playing with Duncan Spinning Tops back in the 1960's. You could do really neat tricks with them. (A least some people could )

They were still made of wood, as plastics were not as dominant yet.

Phil.

[Michael Piziak]

I had a nok hockey game as well.

My friends family had the way-cooler Bobby Hull Hockey Game where the players were controlled by rods.

In college like many of my dormmates I got pretty good at foosball aka table soccer...

Chris

Quite interesting and a coincidence, my college dormitory had a recreation room that had a foosball table game. I got pretty good at it!

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We used to like playing with Duncan Spinning Tops back in the 1960's. You could do really neat tricks with them. (A least some people could )

They were still made of wood, as plastics were not as dominant yet.

Phil.

Kewl, just watched these 11 "tricks" to do with one:

You Tube

You Tube