Favorite toy from your childhood

[IcSyU]

I think it came out in about 1989 or so originally, I'm guessing even more than that played it.

You could beat the living hell out of someone with the original gameboy.

[kevdiv48]

I think it came out in about 1989 or so originally, I'm guessing even more than that played it.

That's right, it did come out that early. I only remember it getting really popular in 98 or so when the Pokemon games came out. Then again I was only 6 or 7 at the time.

[Bader]

I think it came out in about 1989 or so originally, I'm guessing even more than that played it.

Born in '86 and the only one I ever had was the original gold screen one. My cousins and I all had them, our parents would flip out because we'd all just dump our games in a big pile when we got together

[ruxCYtable]

Hmmm...I had an x-wing fighter...you know the one where you push down R2D2's head and the wings spread out.

Atari.

I don't know if this qualifies as a toy or not but we had a Yamaha dirt bike and from age 8 on I spent about half my life on that thing.

[ISUAgronomist]

For sure, I think the people that used the Gameboy the most are between 19-23ish now, so I'm guessing a lot of people on here were too old for it at the time. Beats me though.

Gameboy color maybe. I'm pushing 30 and had the original, super thick Gameboy.

[ISUtapdat]

This game was impossible

[CRcyclone6]

My baseball glove. Took it everywhere. Milking cows, doing chores, in the car, everywhere

[kevdiv48]

Gameboy color maybe. I'm pushing 30 and had the original, super thick Gameboy.

Yep, that's exactly it, I'm too young to have been around for the original. The earliest one I remember is the GB pocket.

[Angie]

You could beat the living hell out of someone with the original gameboy.

I played a loooooot of Tetris on that bad boy.

[CapnCy]

In hindsight, kinda wished I'd gotten the original Gameboy, but this was pretty cool at the time in terms of color and speed of play. Mortal Kombat was great....but some of the other games were not. Always wanted the tv adapter as well.

[CapnCy]

This was another one of my favorites...wish I would have held onto it!

[IcSyU]

The Super Nintendo Gameboy game adapter was a childhood lifesaver.

[MNCyGuy]

On the computer games front, Sim Farm was the ****.

I can't believe it took 5 pages for Gameboy to be mentioned.

I played the crap out of SimCity 2000 when we got our first computer. I also think SimTower might be the most underrated of that series.

[kevdiv48]

The Super Game Boy game adapter was a childhood lifesaver.

Corrected for accuracy

[SaraV]

I read and played outside most of the time when I was little. I didn't have a ton of "girly" toys, but I did love this for some reason:

Oh my goodness, cue "The Twilight Zone" music. While still in the fog of having just woken up this morning, this toy popped into my head. I have no idea why. I wasn't a girly-girl either, but I liked playing with this toy, too.

We didn't have a gaming console until 1991 or so. (NES, of course) What we did have was an Apple IIE since 1983. I played a lot of "Alice in Wonderland". It was on a 5 1/2 inch floppy...you had to boot the game up on side A, and then when you played the game, the disk needed to be on side B. When you got to the "Through the Looking Glass" section of the game, you had to flip back to side A, and then again play the game on side B. Looooved this game. Also played a lot of Moon Patrol.