Nostalgia.
I've just spent the last half hour at work looking for Scalextric sets on ebay.
What was your favourite childhood game? (not including video games - atarilol!)
Edit: Game/toy
(TheColonel, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:25, 67 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

My Star Wars toys
I still have them. My X-Wing is on a shelf in my living room.

Edit - Game?...Connect 4
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)

We lived in the arse end of beyond
My favourite game was probably making mud soup and poking stuff with a stick - not that I had a lot of choice in the matter.
(berk, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:29, Reply)

Crossbows and Catapults
Lego
Escape from Colditz
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:29, Reply)

Escape from Colditz RULED.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:14, Reply)

best boardgame ever

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Lego, Lego and more Lego
BEST TOY EVAR!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)

horses or football
until i was about 10, anyway.

books, books, books. barbie. my little pony. and my carebear. i cried myself sick when i lost that, and although my dad took the day off work the next day to take me to buy a new one, it was never QUITE the same.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:32, Reply)

My Little Pony
Skinny and boney...

sorry, was 8 y/o again there
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)

Made out of plastic
Looks like a spastic.

Sorry, I was being 36 still
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)

There were other lyrics?
NOW I find out...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:44, Reply)

You can reply on the law of the playground.
www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?sid=1369
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:47, Reply)

Just looked up "Skill"
yup..."African Bum Disease"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:50, Reply)

These 3 made me laugh
www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?sid=2441

www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?sid=261

www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?sid=2587
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)

Boggle
Trivial Pursuit
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

Doctors and Nurses

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:37, Reply)

Subbuteo
We had football, rugby & cricket.

The inventor wanted to simply call it The Hobby, but wasn@t allowed to. He chose subbuteo as it is (I believe) the the latin name of the Hobby Hawk.


Oh, and the 5-a-side football too.
(Cave Duck, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:37, Reply)

Screwball scramble.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:39, Reply)

That was ace even though I was in my thirties when I first played it.
I actually took it down to the pub one night.
(Cave Duck, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:40, Reply)

Bought one in a charity shop for 50p
The kids were suitably impressed, as was I. Childhood dreams fulfilled.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)

I struggle to remember a favourite toy or game.
I seem to remember spending most of my time outdoors, playing football, building dens and climbing trees.

Astro Wars was pretty good, I liked that.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:39, Reply)

I never really played many games but I did use to draw a lot.
I was quite fond of my Spirograph.
( girlinthehole, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:41, Reply)

Oooh yes
I remember Spirograph. My sister and I fought over one of the bits and broke ours :(
(berk, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:44, Reply)

My brother and I used to design castles and forts all the time.
And space stations.

All in minute detail.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:22, Reply)

all the weapons my Dad foolishly let me buy with my pocket money.

(Kip, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:41, Reply)

Sheath knives, air pistols, catapaults...
and if you were lucky, some bangers a mate brought back from France...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:46, Reply)

Oh yeah!
I've still got a French banger lying around somewhere for nostalgia.

My dad was really trusting and I had a shotgun from the age of 12, I've got an arsenal in the loft as we speak but keep a: s3.amazonaws.com/pakboard/images/0002/4613/commando_11_crossbow.jpg on top of the wardrobe in case of burglars.
(Kip, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:00, Reply)

that's not at all worrying, oh no.
perfectly normal. Yeah. absolutely.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:03, Reply)

I'm 100% weapon trained, Shot for the Army (British) and Cheshire Clay Pigeon u21's
I'm not another Derek Bird.
(Kip, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:14, Reply)

I've got a Army marksman qualification from when I was 16.
And I used to teach cadets weapons handling (fnar)

All that did was give me a healthy demonstration that weapons aren't exactly selective about who they kill, nor is ability to use them any barrier to making a fatal mistake.

Still think anyone that keeps weapons in their home for self defence is fucking scary. See, the thing about having no weapons is that then no-one ends up dead. I prefer those odds.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:32, Reply)

I wouldn't actually use them in self defense.
I'm not fucking mental!
(Kip, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:57, Reply)

Yet. Hang around here a while..........

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:44, Reply)

This, too ...

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Doctors and Nurses
If I try playing that now, I get hauled in front of HR.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 15:43, Reply)

Scrabble and Monopoly.
Never had a favourite toy. Mine were all crap.
I lusted for a Jonny 7 multigun though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBvu9MX-po
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:14, Reply)

The Jonny 7 looks fantastic.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:19, Reply)

Subbuteo, Tin Can Alley, Crossfire
and my 4' x 2' snooker table. I used to play my dad and my brother in law for 10p a game. I made a bloody fortune.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:15, Reply)

My brother and I
had wars involving our toy soldiers all laid out in battalions etc all over our playroom floor, that went on for months. We had cannons that fired matchsticks (in happier, paranoia-about-child-injury-free times) and would use them to wipe out each other's troops. Much of our leisure time was spent making Airfix kits.

My uncles also had a Thunderball board game that we'd play at Christmas, that was ace. As was 'Touring Scotland', a nice middle-class board game with little metal cars.

We also liked 'Tell Me Quiz' by Spears Games, this is played every Christmas to this day. Still play Scrabble too - and croquet.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:17, Reply)

My brother had loads of toy soldiers and we also had grand battles.
My brother-in-law went through a stage a while back when he was convinced that he was going to come up a great children's book or game and was sending ideas off all of the time. One of his game ideas was in essence a beefed up version of Tell Me. The company wrote to him and said that it was good, but a bit like Tell Me.
I still play a variation when out walking with my daughter.
(Cave Duck, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

can't remember back that far, too much booze
oooooooh it was the apple board game, can't remember what it was called
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:22, Reply)

One summer holiday
I decided to produce a newspaper for a fictional town called 'Fonki-town'. The paper was called 'The Nightly Fonk' and contained comic strips and supposedly jovial articles about the town and its people. It took fucking weeks.

One of the residents/cartoon characters was a man I dubbed 'Funny Man Wood', he lived in the u-bend with his mother who was always telling him off. She had a northern accent.

I was about 7, and a somewhat peculiar child.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)

I've got a mental image of you saying this whilst reclined on a psychiatrist's couch
"Tell me more about Funny Man Wood's mother, Mr Boyce. Why did she have a northern accent?"
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:35, Reply)

It's clear evidence that it's not the MD's that have sent me mental.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:37, Reply)

If anything, it sounds as though they've helped to keep you on the straight and narrow...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

This story is an absolute fucking delight.
Well done sir
(TheColonel, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

Mastermind & Strike-a-Light Snooker (Which had Sid James on the box if I remember rightly)
Also Mousetrap - good idea, crap game.
(Cave Duck, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)

Mousetrap was fucking shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:30, Reply)

There's a new version of it. It is also shit.

(Cave Duck, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:31, Reply)

urrghh mousetrap

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:31, Reply)

my cousins had all the good games, man
like trouble, hungry hungry hippos, connect four, guess who
I never got any of that stuff
LAME!
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:32, Reply)

This is why in later life you became an internet bully.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I KNOW
once when I was 5 the neighbor kid downstairs and I had the same doll and she drew all over hers and told her mum I left mine and took hers and my mum made me give her my clean one
lifes just not fair I tell you!
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

Guess Who is shit.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

You are.
What do I win?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

Internet points.
I let myself down there didn't I?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Yeah, you did kind of walk right into that one.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Not so much walk into it.
More of a sprint.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:40, Reply)

More of a stage-dive really.
Or a bellyflop.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:41, Reply)

I am that fall-guy.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:50, Reply)

You're shit!

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:37, Reply)

I failed
AGAIN.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

there, there
*pets*
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:41, Reply)

:)

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:48, Reply)

Bollocks, 'American Woman' is a fucking classic, Jeff.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:37, Reply)

And I'm not cool enough to know my Canadian rock bands
So I had to Google it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

You're so square, Jeff.
You need to get hip to the scene, daddio.

*puts on some crazy bebop*

*lights reefer*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:41, Reply)

I am a square.
And there is nothing I can do about it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:49, Reply)