I must have had 6 of the table top hockey games with the metal players growing up as a kid.I played them so much that every other Christmas I would need a new one.All the NHL teams were represented at the time but all the goalies looked like Gump Worsely,the defensemen like Bobby Orr and the forwards like Rocket Richard.They came with a wooden and magnetic puck but no one ever played with the terrible magnetic one.there were dead zones o the board where neither the offense or defense could reach and it led to allot of game lifting and tilting.
The basketball game intended to compete with hockey was lame with those little hole popping dealies.Then the table top football game was a joke with the vibrating magnets.The only fun part of that game was kicking field goals and punting but if you did it too much,the metal legs on the kicker and punter would get stressed and crack.Illegal wedge formations on offense were big play calls.The baseball table top game was lame too.
Then there was boxing robots.No one ever played with their thumbs as suggested in the instructions but slammed the levers with their palms causing you to have Jesus hands.
Skittle pool-kind of lame.
Hot Wheels,no matter how you tried setting up the track just like the kids on the t.v.commercial or box cover had it set up,you could never get it to perform as well as their setup.
Super toe with the rock hard footballs that used to put dents in the walls.Everyone caught on that the football would go twice as far if you laid it sideways.
The first hand held electronic football game with little blips from Mattel.It was addictive and everytime you got back to classes on Monday you had writers cramp from obtaining a paulsy from repetitive motion syndrome using the game.
Mouse trap.The game was boring as hell so all you did is make it work like a Rube Goldberg machine where the plastic skinny bald guy would jump in the water tub.
Operation,the only fun part of the game was to mess up and have the guy's red light bulb nose light up.
Kreskin's ESP where you would tease your little brother or sister that bad things were predicted.
Creepy Crawlers and incredible edibles.Mixing the goop together always was fun where you ended up with barf or crap colored everything.I can still smell that goop.God only knows how much worse that stuff was to inhale compared to all the toys today from China with lead that they recall every day.
Giant sets of plastic army men with tanks and land mines were always fun.You always attacked your sisters Barbie doll house with it.
Chemistry sets were big.They used to have allot of lame stuff like wood splinters. and cotton batton in the chemical bottles.
Any other suggestions,I probably have 100 of them.You can probably still buy all these games factory sealed from 30-40 years ago on E-bay.Not sure if kids in the video game era would find them at all amusing.this thread reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where he drugged that gal he was going out with so he could play with her toy collection.Wasn't that also the episode that Kramer found the old Merv Griffin set in the garbage?Funny episode.
The basketball game intended to compete with hockey was lame with those little hole popping dealies.Then the table top football game was a joke with the vibrating magnets.The only fun part of that game was kicking field goals and punting but if you did it too much,the metal legs on the kicker and punter would get stressed and crack.Illegal wedge formations on offense were big play calls.The baseball table top game was lame too.
Then there was boxing robots.No one ever played with their thumbs as suggested in the instructions but slammed the levers with their palms causing you to have Jesus hands.
Skittle pool-kind of lame.
Hot Wheels,no matter how you tried setting up the track just like the kids on the t.v.commercial or box cover had it set up,you could never get it to perform as well as their setup.
Super toe with the rock hard footballs that used to put dents in the walls.Everyone caught on that the football would go twice as far if you laid it sideways.
The first hand held electronic football game with little blips from Mattel.It was addictive and everytime you got back to classes on Monday you had writers cramp from obtaining a paulsy from repetitive motion syndrome using the game.
Mouse trap.The game was boring as hell so all you did is make it work like a Rube Goldberg machine where the plastic skinny bald guy would jump in the water tub.
Operation,the only fun part of the game was to mess up and have the guy's red light bulb nose light up.
Kreskin's ESP where you would tease your little brother or sister that bad things were predicted.
Creepy Crawlers and incredible edibles.Mixing the goop together always was fun where you ended up with barf or crap colored everything.I can still smell that goop.God only knows how much worse that stuff was to inhale compared to all the toys today from China with lead that they recall every day.
Giant sets of plastic army men with tanks and land mines were always fun.You always attacked your sisters Barbie doll house with it.
Chemistry sets were big.They used to have allot of lame stuff like wood splinters. and cotton batton in the chemical bottles.
Any other suggestions,I probably have 100 of them.You can probably still buy all these games factory sealed from 30-40 years ago on E-bay.Not sure if kids in the video game era would find them at all amusing.this thread reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where he drugged that gal he was going out with so he could play with her toy collection.Wasn't that also the episode that Kramer found the old Merv Griffin set in the garbage?Funny episode.