Best Christmas Gifts Received as a Kid

[Bills4everNY]

 

[WotAGuy]

6 hours ago, Ned Flanders said:

1973ish-Talking Football from Mattel where you put the little records in a player...you choose the offense and your opponent chooses the defense.  Also around that time, Monday Night Football from Aurora, with Roger Staubach on the box.

 

Ah!  Had this version of MNF where you select an offensive play and the opponent selects a defensive play and it lit up the play result on a little grid underneath the field. You could select plays from cards emphasizing the running game, passing game and special teams. The play result was pretty true to reality; if you threw a bomb and the defense was a blitz, you got wrecked.  This game was the beginning and end of my football strategy knowledge. 🤣🤣

 

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[BillsPride12]

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64.  Those were the big ticket items back in my day

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Original Sega (c. 1988), with the game “Great Football.”

[boyst]

NES in 86

[SinceThe70s]

33 minutes ago, DrW said:

My Maerklin train set. It started when I was 3 with a simple oval and Lego houses. It was expanded every year in the 2-3 weeks before Christmas, until it reached a double oval with working signals and a working catenary - all assembled by my Mom (RIP, Mom). I then bought yards of rail so that we could run trains into every room of the 1,000 sq ft apartment.

 

Damn, I was going to say the same. I still have and treasure my Marklin's. They only come out at Christmas and setup can be a struggle since the set is so old, but for the most part the track is in good condition and my two locomotives still run. This is from a few years ago.

 

 

[Fleezoid]

12 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Damn, I was going to say the same. I still have and treasure my Marklin's. They only come out at Christmas and setup can be a struggle since the set is so old, but for the most part the track is in good condition and my two locomotives still run. This is from a few years ago.

 

 

 

 

[Johnny Hammersticks]

The OG NES system when it first came out in the mid 80s.  I had no idea I was actually getting it for xmas, so I was super hyped when I opened it.  It came with that stupid robot thing that served no purpose.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

GI Joe 

Creepy crawlers 

Lincoln logs 

Hot Wheels / Hot Wheels track 

Tonka toys 

Revell model cars

Smash up Derby

 

 

[WotAGuy]

3 hours ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

GI Joe 

Creepy crawlers 

Lincoln logs 

Hot Wheels / Hot Wheels track 

Tonka toys 

Revell model cars

Smash up Derby

 

 

Creepy Crawlers was that goo you put into molds and heated up? 
 

I remember something similar but it was called Incredible Edibles. God only knows what I was ingesting. 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

3 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:

Creepy Crawlers was that goo you put into molds and heated up? 
 

I remember something similar but it was called Incredible Edibles. God only knows what I was ingesting. 

made rubber spiders and bugs. could make them any color you wanted. it was cool back in '70

 

Edited November 28 by DaBillsFanSince1973

[f0neguy]

Mid 60’s I got an Aurora slot car set.  I set it up on a sheet of plywood in the basement.  Had to turn it off when dad was watching Gunsmoke as it made the picture all staticky.  Every year after that I’d get a little more track and a car or two.  Been collecting it ever since.

[WotAGuy]

19 hours ago, f0neguy said:

Mid 60’s I got an Aurora slot car set.  I set it up on a sheet of plywood in the basement.  Had to turn it off when dad was watching Gunsmoke as it made the picture all staticky.  Every year after that I’d get a little more track and a car or two.  Been collecting it ever since.

The static on the TV is great; how did we ever watch a hockey game on those sets?

[Ted Striker]

On 11/26/2024 at 11:38 AM, Logic said:

And you could open the cockpit and put two figures in there as well.

 

The cockpit! What is it?

[Gugny]

I am nearly 54. 
 

My five most memorable/favorite Christmas gifts from my yoot are:

 

Grease soundtrack (double album set)

 

Stretch Armstrong

 

Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Transport Shuttle

 

Journey Escape album

 

Queen The Game album

 

 

[coloradobillsfan]

Not only did this give me hundreds of hours of gaming fun, it lead to my career in IT.  

[bills_fan]

I was an 80s Star Wars kid.  This will always be my fav Christmas gift.

 

[Ned Flanders]

On 11/27/2024 at 8:38 PM, f0neguy said:

Mid 60’s I got an Aurora slot car set.  I set it up on a sheet of plywood in the basement.  Had to turn it off when dad was watching Gunsmoke as it made the picture all staticky.  Every year after that I’d get a little more track and a car or two.  Been collecting it ever since.

Aurora HO cars were the best.  Good for you for keeping hold of them.  I look at the Aurora stuff on eBay and drool. 

[US Egg]

On 11/27/2024 at 4:16 PM, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

Creepy crawlers 

Remember making edible candy ones in the same mold as the rubber ones, which were toxic. Apparently kids ate both. 

 

Chemistry sets were great back then. To say they were the "bomb" wouldn't be a stretch....and the poisons. Great stuff.

[Augie]

3 minutes ago, US Egg said:

Remember making edible candy ones in the same mold as the rubber ones, which were toxic. Apparently kids ate both. 

 

Chemistry sets were great back then. To say they were the "bomb" wouldn't be a stretch....and the poisons. Great stuff.

 

I only read the bold and my immediate thought was “what a stink you could make with those things!!!”  😂