Pretty much like what you and everybody else said, starting with Lego (space lego).Some other things:
My BBC B had a hardware C compiler in it, on nice blue ROM chips that were made in Watford.
I used to buy sparklets (the little carbon dioxide cylinders used in brewing or something) and hammer nails through the ends so they went off like rockets.
Choose Your Own Adventure books were pretty sweet, and apparently are being revived for the iPhone: www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/08/return_to_the_cave_of_time_uve.php
Also capguns and plastic swords and big sticks and paper planes and skidding my bike down a hill repeatedly until it got a big hole in the tire.
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My BBC B had a hardware C compiler in it, on nice blue ROM chips that were made in Watford.
I used to buy sparklets (the little carbon dioxide cylinders used in brewing or something) and hammer nails through the ends so they went off like rockets.
Choose Your Own Adventure books were pretty sweet, and apparently are being revived for the iPhone: www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/08/return_to_the_cave_of_time_uve.php
Also capguns and plastic swords and big sticks and paper planes and skidding my bike down a hill repeatedly until it got a big hole in the tire.