What Were Some of Your Favorite Toys?

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

My siblings and I had a Colecovision (thanks mom and dad!). I don't know if it's because we're in a simulation, but I swear to go we played Zelda on that thing, but the Intnernet says it was only offered on the NES platform.

But I remember...

- Doc

Maybe a Zelda look alike? I have played both Dragonfire and Venture on a cabinet before and both of those look pretty close to NES Zeldas (at least to my young brain) and the google tells me those games were available on Colecovision.

I'm not sure. Whatever the case was, there was no save feature on that damn game. I remember the tears and rage flowing freely because I'd come so close to winning the game, or finishing it, and then dying. You'd have to play the whole damn game over again. HATED IT.

- Doc

[_Doctor Steuss]

I'm not sure. Whatever the case was, there was no save feature on that damn game. I remember the tears and rage flowing freely because I'd come so close to winning the game, or finishing it, and then dying. You'd have to play the whole damn game over again. HATED IT.

- Doc

Maybe Dragonfire?

[_Jersey Girl]

One of the funniest things about this thread is that I'm fairly certain we span quite an age range but basically all of us have fond memories of trying to get those cap rolls to go off with something other than a cap gun. Some toys just never fade away it seems.

We for sure span an age range here. You are right, the caps are universal and have stood the test of time because who doesn't want to hit crap with a hammer, make it fire off and smell?

[_Fence Sitter]

You guys with a roll of caps and just a hammer are such rookies. Back in my day, we would get a sewing needle and thread and poke the needle through each cap head on the roll until we reached the end, folding each perforated cap head back on the previous one. Then we would tightly wrap the square cylinder we had created with scotch tape and on one end we would tape a paper match over the last cap head so it made a home made fuse. We had our own homemade firecracker that would make a pretty good bang. As we got better at this we would actually place multiple rolls of caps into one long firecracker that would really make a bang!

Great thread by the way, so many memories of toys I had in the past I totally forgot about.

[_Jersey Girl]

You guys with a roll of caps and just a hammer are such rookies. Back in my day, we would get a sewing needle and thread and poke the needle through each cap head on the roll until we reached the end, folding each perforated cap head back on the previous one. Then we would tightly wrap the square cylinder we had created with scotch tape and on one end we would tape a paper match over the last cap head so it made a home made fuse. We had our own homemade firecracker that would make a pretty good bang. As we got better at this we would actually place multiple rolls of caps into one long firecracker that would really make a bang!

Great thread by the way, so many memories of toys I had in the past I totally forgot about.

With all due respect, you are missing the part where you get to hammer the crap out of something multiple times.

It's all about the hammer, Fence.

[_Morley]

You guys with a roll of caps and just a hammer are such rookies. Back in my day, we would get a sewing needle and thread and poke the needle through each cap head on the roll until we reached the end, folding each perforated cap head back on the previous one. Then we would tightly wrap the square cylinder we had created with scotch tape and on one end we would tape a paper match over the last cap head so it made a home made fuse. We had our own homemade firecracker that would make a pretty good bang. As we got better at this we would actually place multiple rolls of caps into one long firecracker that would really make a bang!

Great thread by the way, so many memories of toys I had in the past I totally forgot about.

Wow. I'm absolutely going to try this with my grandkids.

[_Doctor Steuss]

In my day, we popped caps in ten feel** of snow, uphill both ways, in our wagon that had square wheels.

*patooey* *ping*



**we also couldn't be bothered with fancy typo corrections.

[_Morley]

In my day, we popped caps in ten feel** of snow, uphill both ways, in our wagon that had square wheels.

*patooey* *ping*



**we also couldn't be bothered with fancy typo corrections.

In my day, we only had rocks to play with. We had to invent sticks and dirt.

[_Dantana]

You guys with a roll of caps and just a hammer are such rookies. Back in my day, we would get a sewing needle and thread and poke the needle through each cap head on the roll until we reached the end, folding each perforated cap head back on the previous one. Then we would tightly wrap the square cylinder we had created with scotch tape and on one end we would tape a paper match over the last cap head so it made a home made fuse. We had our own homemade firecracker that would make a pretty good bang. As we got better at this we would actually place multiple rolls of caps into one long firecracker that would really make a bang!

Great thread by the way, so many memories of toys I had in the past I totally forgot about.

I had heard my friends talk about doing this, but I could never make it work. So, this one maybe shouldn't count as I wasn't a child at the time but....

During my teenage years, my dad had acquired a blasting license, for blowing stumps, clearing land around the farm. So, I borrowed a few sticks one night. Friends house. Parents away. Teenage drinking party. We hung those few....five sticks in the engine compartment of a derelict 70's ford pickup. 200' of extension cord (electric cap)

Woke up the next morning from my spot on the couch to my friends voice - So Curt, there's a master cylinder in my bathtub. Yep, from over 200' away, through the single wide mobile home wall, through another interior wall and stuck in the face of the fiberglass tub/shower. Oops.

[_canpakes]

During my teenage years, my dad had acquired a blasting license, for blowing stumps, clearing land around the farm. So, I borrowed a few sticks one night. Friends house. Parents away. Teenage drinking party. We hung those few....five sticks in the engine compartment of a derelict 70's ford pickup. 200' of extension cord (electric cap)

Woke up the next morning from my spot on the couch to my friends voice - So Curt, there's a master cylinder in my bathtub. Yep, from over 200' away, through the single wide mobile home wall, through another interior wall and stuck in the face of the fiberglass tub/shower. Oops.

This is impressive.

Best we could ever manage as kids was to go over to the nearby park after July 4, search through the piles of firecracker chaff and collect all of the unexploded lady fingers that we could find - the ones where the fuses would burn down to the body but not ignite. Then we'd spend a few hours unraveling our booty and scraping all of the gunpowder into a pile with a thin leader. We'd put an old matchbox car atop, and light our homemade demo charge to see how much damage we could inflict.

We had a particularly good haul one year and packed all of our gunpowder into a small tube with a fuse, sealed it up and colorfully decorated our homemade megacracker. Not that we knew anything about explosives and how they really worked, as all we got out of that one was a very impressive but non-destructive PHOOOMPH as it ignited and blew its cap off like a dirty fountain. Not the bang we were hoping for.

I can't imagine what we might have tried had we access to the serious stuff that you did.