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Another revived (again) thread by yours truely. :D

Ok, so I was looking through a catalog circa 1992(?) and I saw something in there that everyone I knew who owend a car had, but never used.
I actually remember them more prevelent in the 80's but whatever...

It's called the auto blaster, and it would make a noise or something, when you pushed one of the many buttons on it.

Sounds would include, an incoming missle and it exploding, a ray gun sound, a grenade explosion, machine gun and a random emergency wail..
(No matter what brand blaster you would buy, the sounds were the same.)
I guess those were the only sounds available on a cheap transducer (sound chip) back in the day.

Anyone else remember those or still have one?

Also, does anyone remember the keychains that when you whistle would make a noise. My cousins and I used to play with my uncle's keys for hours on eend, hiding them on each other and whistling to find them. Turns out the batteries were pretty good and it lasted a whole week that way. :rolleyes:

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This is a great thread. :) I just read it now and it brought back a lot of memories. I'm glad it's back and didn't die.......yet! :p

I still have my Garbage Pail Kids. I remember wanting to go to the store every week and get more.

Anyone remember My Little Pony? My sister had these and I used to take them and hide them on her. They had different colored mains and tails that you could brush and one thing I thought about but never did was cut them off on her!

One toy of my sister's I always liked and played with was Vultron. It was five different colored lions that could join together into one large one. She had all five lions, black, green, yellow, red, and blue. I don't remember what they all signified but green was forrest (land), yellow was volcano, and blue was water. Vultron had started out as a cartoon.

I had Lionel trains permanently set up in the rec room downstairs to play with. I used to use my Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Corgi cars and even Legos on the train board. These Matchboxs were regular looking cars, no fancy paint schemes like today. I had a lot of "normal everyday" looking cars like station wagons, sedans, pick ups, vans, ect. I still have the trains, Legos, and Matchbox/Hot Wheels. Everything is packed away except for the trains which come out during the Christmas season to run around the tree.
I also used to play with the metal Tonka trucks I had outside. I had a dumptruck I would sit in and ride down the street. I no longer have these trucks, I gave them away to a cousin when I got older. I do have one funny story though with them. You know the sound a zipper makes in a clothes dryer? Well one day I decided to put the trucks in there to dry them off after they got wet being left outside. I'll leave it to your imagination what 3 metal trucks sounded like in there! :ahh: Wow, just think of the things you did as a kid. :D

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Speaking of nostalgia, I got to experience it quite a bit today while we disposed a whole 20 ft long construction dumpster's worth of old school district computers. I was in a quite nostalgic mood so I picked up a Macintosh Classic and brought it home to save it from the junkyard. We also tossed (literally) a bunch of "Power PC" Macs and Mac IIC's and there was even an Apple IIE with integrated keyboard.

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I think it was spelled Voltron if I'm not mistaken. I think I still have parts of that upstairs in my attic. It was basically a cartoon version if Power Rangers. You can even go on to write a paper how film technolgy has changed so much over 10 years between the 80's and 90's based on those two shows alone.


Wow.. that brings me back. I remember playing the coolest games on the Apple IIE called Number Munchers.. Ahh those were the good days.

Just think of the geeks like me you could have sold them babies to on ebay and made a bundle of money.. lol

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i was in the grocery store with my friend the other day (loooong story ... ) and i randomly go "remember Gushers .. and Dunkaroos .. and Soda-licious .. whatever happened to them ??" and later .. we found them .. i was so happy to find out they still make them .. they were some of the best candies ever ... even though my mom wouldnt let me have them ...

on a random note .. when we found them i go "wow .. everything in this aisle is so old-school ... except for all this new stuff .. "

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Me, being a ripe age of sixteen, what's old-school for me is showing me work in science class. (no, that is NOT a typo) It may also have something to do with my geekiness...

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Dude, I remember number munchers!

We had these Apple IIs back in the early part of elementary school (actually, now that I think of it, Harbison West only switched out those computers to IBMs the year after I left for middle school), and I remember the first time that I played.

This kid in my class who was a pain was sitting near me, and I was reading the instructions (a habit I would later shake). He then mashed the start button for me, so here I was in this really weird grid with no idea what I'm doing!

Welcome to my world.

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Number munchers...oh god, I may be young, but I love number munchers. We are thinking of the same thing right? They made me so happy, I went and bought some discs. Almost as entertaining as Dance Dance Revolution. Speaking of old school, were y'all around when 1st mix came out? That makes me reminisce...

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I got the Vegasaurus ONCE. It was random, and he soon broke out of the pens (I used concrete and electrified it).

Anyway....

Yes, I remember Legends of the Hidden Temple, best game show. They still have it on Nick GAS Network, sometimes when I have nothing to do, I sit down and watch it.

As for computer games, my all time classic favorite is Lemmings, especially Lemmings Chronicals.

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Ooh, I remember those. *Nostalgia* Power Rangers were the best thing ever, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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i used to love the power rangers .. probably because my brother did ..
as for ninja turtles ... i loved them too ... and theyre back on tv now ... saturday morning cartoons ... yay!!

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Hungry Hungry Hippos? How could anybody forget them?

Or the Lego Space shuttle? First set I ever built, 1992, I built it outside, and it was on a table with crayons on it as well. Crayons + sun = shiney goo.

Mentioning crayons, remember when the 64-crayon box first came out? When there were 8 "mystery" colors that we got to name? I remember they had white wrappings and "name this color" on the side.

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Hungry Hungry Hippos was awesome!

Remember Trouble, Mouse Trap, Don't Wake Dad, and Operation?

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Yeah. In fact, I still have 4 out of 5 of those.

Speaking of old games: Sega Genesis (and the afforementioned Sonic the Hedgehog games)! I still play mine, although lately I've been weening myself towards using an emulator for it. I imagine some people here must have old Commodores, Ataris, and NESs.