Nostalgia Thread

**strangeirish** · 20/09/2007, 4:07 PM

Anyone have any of these growing up?
Led Watch
The Raleigh Chopper Sprint GT Below. Had the gear shifter in the middle. When you went to change gears, you'd fall off and bust your ass, unless you were good like me.

**fosterdollar** · 21/09/2007, 12:18 PM

Space Hoppers

**fosterdollar** · 21/09/2007, 12:20 PM

And Zig and Zag of course

**noby** · 21/09/2007, 12:21 PM

I looked in to getting a Chopper for nostalgia reasons, but they were going for about a grand, and that was five years ago.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 21/09/2007, 12:35 PM

Airfix Model kits.

Anytime I hear Dionne Warwick singing 'Heartbreaker' I get the smell of the Humbrol paint off a newly made 1:72 scale Heinkel 111 10 year old lionel was making while she was on top of the pops.

**Ash** · 21/09/2007, 12:42 PM

Remember Lo-Lo Balls (que the double entendres

)

(and no, that's not me in the pic

)

**biscuit** · 21/09/2007, 12:46 PM

HE MAN collectables...(i had the flask n lunchbox too!!)

**dahamsta** · 21/09/2007, 5:19 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

Anyone have any of these growing up?

I had a Grifter with the gears on the handlebars and I loved it, but I really wanted a Chopper too.

I was tickled when I saw one in the Science Museum a few years ago.

adam

**Sheridan** · 21/09/2007, 5:39 PM

Did anyone here own a Barcode Battler? I never did, but remember them being heavily promoted through Crazy Prices or someone circa 1994. It was some kind of handheld games console into which you inputted info by swiping barcodes from various products.

**jebus** · 21/09/2007, 8:07 PM

Commodore 64 and Fat Frogs are two of my happier moments in life, I'll find pics later

**SligoBrewer** · 21/09/2007, 8:12 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

Commodore 64 and Fat Frogs are two of my happier moments in life, I'll find pics later

what type of fat frogs

**GuisaSaigon** · 22/09/2007, 9:58 AM

Had a chopper for a while, feckin deathtrap it was. always wanted a vectar but never got one. a guy on my street had one so i used to " borrow" it a lot! Check this out a fully working Vectar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBrN1sLZVik

**Pauro 76** · 22/09/2007, 3:20 PM

Classic Irish kids tv like Bosco, Fortycoats and of course the mighty Wanderley Wagon.

'Classic' RTE quiz shows:
Where In The World, Murhpy's Micro Quiz M, Rapid Roulette, Quicksilver, Know Your Sport

**Magicme** · 23/09/2007, 2:12 PM

I miss my Barbie VW Beetle car. And my McDonald's drive through that Barbie fitted into. We had to leave them and loads of other toys in Canada when we moved home coz we couldnt afford to ship 3 crate loads of toys! Lucky kids who moved into our house got a basement full of top notch stuff.

I had a lo-lo-ball Ash, loved it! Loved the old Atari games console, we had a game called Circus that I just loved.

**pineapple stu** · 23/09/2007, 4:31 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

Did anyone here own a Barcode Battler? I never did, but remember them being heavily promoted through Crazy Prices or someone circa 1994. It was some kind of handheld games console into which you inputted info by swiping barcodes from various products.

That vaguely rings a bell alright.

Amstrad 6128. Still have it up in my room, and have an emulator on the laptop.

**sligoman** · 23/09/2007, 11:53 PM

I'm younger than most of ye so ye were probably too old when this came out but I got this off Santa one year. Delighted

**soccerc** · 24/09/2007, 12:07 AM

Patsi Pops!

Closest thing these days is a lidl icepop, it's close but not close enough

**Ash** · 24/09/2007, 7:10 AM

Originally Posted by PAURO 7

Rapid Roulette

Please, leave the table ...

That used to drive my auld fella mad.

**Macy** · 24/09/2007, 7:39 AM

This thread isn't what it used to be...

We were a spectrum household, starting with the ZX and then the Spectrum Plus. Before we went all PC and ultra modern with a 286.

Evil Knievel figure and bike. Matchbox cars, and those stunt tracks you could get (fixed off the window sill, with loop the loops and that).