Toys I Wish I Had As A Kid
February 23rd 2011 02:32
I mean, it was an era when kids played outside, so a bat, a ball and a little imagination went a long way.
But invarably there were times when even the most ardent of kids and no doubt parents, faced with the prospect of having their little darlings couped up inside meant that toys and board games had to be part and parcel of any attention distracting arsenal.
Now, kids being kids, we always looked at what others had in the earnest belief we were hard done by. Truth was of course that those same 'other kids' looked at us and probably throught exactly the same thing.
So come rainy weather and the anxiety of sports separation, I would suss out which of my friends had the best 'inside' games before making the call - much to the relief, I'm sure, of my mother.
Enter games such as Kerr-Plunk, Scalextric Race Cars, Hot Wheels, Mousetrap, Smash Up Derby, Battling Tops and Battleship not mention Cluedo and Masterpiece.
The really lucky kids of course were blessed with a table tennis table or their own tape recorder - which to a couple of eight-year-old boys meant a licence to do almost anything!
Of course, much later came the first of the rudimenary video games such as Pong - by which time, girls, the beach, skateboards and even more sport took up most of my spare time.
But essentially I was happy enough to simply be a bit player when it came to toys and games - which doesn't mean I wasn't envious - just that a ball, plastic detergent bottle or creative use of what ever was lying around was good enough for me.
A master of my own universe - do'h - did I mention Masters of The Universe?
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