Greatest toys of all time received for Christmas

[DaveB]

I had the steam roller version of the Mamod engine, in green and red. It's still in my mums loft somewhere i think.




Back in the days when it was considered acceptable to leave small boys alone with a bottle of Meths and a box of matches

[bogeyman]

the mahmood steam engine

they really worked

Is that a sort of Middle Eastern copy of a Mamod steam engine?

[Zippy]

I loved my Lego but my best present was a train set.

[amcdonald]

For my 14th Birthday I got a 48k Zx Spectrum, I can still remember trying to code assembler in hexidecimal I don't think my eyes ever quite recovered from it

Oh how I laughed conning my parents into thinking I wanted it for educational purposes, when really I want it to play games

3D Ant Attack, the Ultimate Play The Game (now Rare) stuff like Jet Pac, and KnightLore, Hungry Horrace, Football Manager, Doomdarks Revenge I remember it well and anyone remember playing Hunter Killer you can setup deathmatches if you had a modem!

And a whole 48k, I can remember people saying just get the 16k one you'll never need 48k, and soon enough 16k wasn't enough for gaming

[BlasterBates]

One Christmas I got a bike with gears on it. Also had some go faster stripes.

[conned tractor]

Tin can alley, why can't they make toy guns like they used to. I also had a magnet ball shooting game that was pretty good.

Lego,Atari 2600(?), and evil kennel were also good.

The best had to be my raleigh burner though, I spent more time on that bike than anything else.

[The_Equalizer]

[QUOTE=gingerjedi;1249967]This:



I ended up with a Philips G7000:



Only last week I looked at buying a 'Woody' Atari 2600 to fill that void!

Also another year I got a BBC Model B which was never quite as good on the games front as the ZX Spectrum. That said, it was a jolly good computer and I learnt Basic on it (I was only ten).

[RSoles]

I had a computacar.
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Programming it by punched card came in hand later when I learned FORTRAN..........

( don't have an old fogey smiley....)

[Cliphead]

Probably my first telescope, came in the biggest box I'd ever seen wrapped. 2.5inch reafractor, equatorial mount with a selection of lens and eyepieces, filters and a gadget for projecting an image of the sun onto a screen to see sunspots.

[RichardCranium]

I think my Dad got a bonus or a promotion the year I got a Matchbox SuperFast Hot Wheels Loop-the-Loop.

It was about 12 foot of track, with a loop, and a launcher thingy.



Mine had red track.