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O.k everyone, i'm turning 30 next week (does that make me an old gamer?) and my party theme is 80's, so fashion celebs or toys are all options, but it got me thinking as i slipped on my gen 1 Optimus Prime costume ( I wear it when I Dakka) what are some of your favorite toys from the era? I can think of some I loved and have been trying to collect off ebay since!

*Transformers (of course)
*Battle beasts
*monsters in my pocket
*G.I Joe/C.o.r.p.s
*Teenage mutant Ninja turtles! ('cos they're ninja's)
*He Man (love the hair)
*Micro machines
*Lego (the good old stuff with heaps of cool parts)
*Mad balls
*garbage pail kids (collectors cards, not toys exactly but damn cool)

so can you think of some more?

Hmm, lets have a look at your list first..

*Transformers (of course) - Obviously had these
*Battle beasts - can't remember those, non Uk?
*monsters in my pocket - yep had a few, my slightly younger brother was into them more mind
*G.I Joe/C.o.r.p.s - lived and breathed these fellas for a long time, collected figures, comics and the TV stuff, one of my all time fave toy lines. Still have a box full of them ontop of the wardrobe.
*Teenage mutant Ninja turtles! ('cos they're ninja's) - my youngest brother went nuts on these, although I liked the original Graphic novels a lot.
*He Man (love the hair) - yeah another fave, really was enjoying the 2004 re-imagining as well, shame it got cancelled just before Hordak joined the party.
*Micro machines - aye had a few.
*Lego (the good old stuff with heaps of cool parts) - had tons of this.
*Mad balls - no idea, must have missed out.
*garbage pail kids (collectors cards, not toys exactly but damn cool) - had absolutely loads of the stickers, me and my middle brother went mad on the stickers for a long time. Been trying to hunt down a copy of the movie for a age as well.

Others..

Visionaries - loved the toys and the cartoon.
Star Wars - seriously, you didn't have any? Eveyone I knew had Star War's toys through the 80's.
Robotech- maybe I was a odd one out, but one of the local stores got a load of this stuff, really though it was great, even If I didn't see the actual Anime to much later.

Atari

Oh frazz you are singing my song right now, and what was the other console... commodore 64? did that have Xaxon on it? 'cos that game rocked....back then


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Oh and morathi, I did happen to see the movie on VHS on ebay a while back so it is out there, along with my pet monster, and the mad ball movie as well

I missed the Atari, had a C16 and then a C64, before jumping to an Amiga in the early 90's.

Zaxxon...excellent.

Intellivision.

Action Man/Action Force, Transformers, Lego, Star Wars, Airfix Soldiers.

I had an Atari 2600 then a Spectrum then an Atari ST.

fething mint.

Mouse trap, battleship

Mouse trap...

I had that for years, but it just looked.. far too complicated to get out of the box?

There used to be this really great game called Rouge Trader but it sort of vanished from the market and I don't know what happened to it.

These



also what about Heroquest? its been responsible for more than a few of us playing this game

OMG thunder cats!!!!!!!!!

Micronauts. Maybe that was 70s?

Colecovision. It had Donkey Kong. And there was also the PC expansion the Adam Computer. I think my shoe has more computing power now than those old game systems.

Oh wow I forgot about the power of Colecovision.

Atari was great.

Sega? Nintendo?

Then, one to rule them all: C=64

Later, Amiga/Atari St.

Then came the 90's.......and the golden age of games ended....

dino riders of course they rocked!

There were also Air Raiders. I remember the commercial vaguely where these kids had strings all over the place and the dolls, sorry 'action figures', would zip along using these air pressurized back packs.

There was also MASK, with that ridiculous flying car.

I was a child in the 70's ...we had the coolest toys.

...But I do recall thinking that Inhumaniods and Sectors (I believe that's what they were called,insect warriors) were cool.

hey mask was cool wath better than a red mucle car?
ared muscle car that also flyes

Kilkrazy wrote:There used to be this really great game called Rouge Trader but it sort of vanished from the market and I don't know what happened to it.

That's okay, as I still think that BattleTech is still around somewhere...

i pretty much played the hell out of the following in order:

He Man
Transformers
GI Joe
Thundercats
TMNT


transformers was pretty much sprinkled throughout the second half of the 80's starting just after g1 began up until they started coming up with the beastmaster/headmaster/targetmaster/WTF??master crap. seriously, someone at the corporate office thought TRANSFORMERS that DON'T TRANSFORM was a good idea??? while i enjoyed the star wars movies, the toy craze was over before my allowance got me to the point where i could afford them and by that time they were coming out with any new stuff.

i didn't buy a whole lot of the toys but i also enjoyed visionaries (have the whole run of the comics!), air raiders (haven't seen that one mentioned yet), and robotech macross stuff.


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crap, forgot the legos. they were a staple of my 1980's.

WarOne wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:There used to be this really great game called Rouge Trader but it sort of vanished from the market and I don't know what happened to it.

That's okay, as I still think that BattleTech is still around somewhere...

Rouge trader? Don't recall that one. Sounds like a game of galactic makeup trading. Avon goes Galactic.
/sarcasm. Unless you were referring to the oft misspelled "ROGUE trader" game meme thing.

Battletech is still going strong. Goes under the name of "classic battletech" now. Many of the players refer to it as CBT (but DO NOT google for this in images unless you have the safe filter on. CBT is a reference to something altogether more painful looking.)

Voltron.

Monsters in my pocket! I loved those things not really sure if they came out in the eighties or nineties though :I

Oh my god this is soo cool remembering this stuff! M.a.s.k was wicked i loved the flying green motorcycle and the toys were good quality, Voltron rocked, but what was the other very similar series about the same time? maybe we can ad this one in too, it's a cartoon series that I loved but i'm sure it had figures.... Defenders of the earth!...that was a cool show....with the strength of ten tigers....Phantom!


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OOOh what about those toys that looked like he man figures with the body cut in half and they had holograms instead!

Hiss Tank. Hiss tank had a glass canopy. Major Blood had a hand gun that fired a missle. Snake eyes carried an UZI. I had 2 UZIs for when we played guns. I had the warthog thing. I was the envy of the nieghboorhood.I also had the Abrams which was badass.

Moss Man/Beastman same dude.

Moss man/beast man same dude, different colour? one gren one red/orange?

I had G.I. Joe and C.O.R.P.S. which were always (still are) ace. I also had some MASK and a crapton of LEGO.

I actually like moss man better. I think tri clops was the only guy who almost beat He Man. Tri Clops was my favorite. They Never got into Zodiac though. I think he was supposed to be like superman.