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I think mine was back in the early 1960s, a Triang Trionics Kit.
Pictures in the first post of this thread. http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=46981 |
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Little professor,
Scramble, similar to space invaders |
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Merlin. Think I must have drove my parents mad cos it made a racket! Kids nowadays would think it's shit but I loved it
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This early video game thing. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/u...DPIC-31304.jpg
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Not sure which was first, but I had a Corgi Frisco Disco record player, a Stylophone & a mini Casio keyboard.
Not sure which was my 1st electronic toy, but I remember loving my Nintendo Game & Watch 'Snoopy Tennis' |
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That little hand held Nintendo donkey Kong game. Probably would go for a fortune on ebay now.
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In the mid 60s when I was about 11 I was given a Phillips Electronic Engineering kit. It came with electronic components like transistors, resistors, capacitors and a book of instructions. I built various circuits like a flashing light, a light sensitive circuit, and a transistor radio, Do they still make educational toys like that. I really enjoyed it but I was a bit nerdy.
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I had a "Simon" and I loved it. Also had the "Little Professor" that has already been mentioned.
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In the mid 60s when I was about 11 I was given a Phillips Electronic Engineering kit. It came with electronic components like transistors, resistors, capacitors and a book of instructions. I built various circuits like a flashing light, a light sensitive circuit, and a transistor radio, Do they still make educational toys like that. I really enjoyed it but I was a bit nerdy.
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A calculator
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A hoover , it made a noise and came with loads of polystyrene balls that you threw on the floor and then sucked up, was very impressed.
Also remembered the daschund dog, which you pulled at it's gold chain and it yapped and walked. I called mine ,quite unoriginally, Dachsy. the lead broke quite early and was useless after that. |
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SIMON - the game where you had to copy the sequence of bleeps/lights that the game emitted.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-1970S...kAAOSwcBhWUHIM Check your response times and accuracy before and after a few Christmas drinks. |
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A toy electric guitar.
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I remember as a child seeing an advert for a new set of children's power tools. I pleaded with my parents to get me the circular saw and imagined all the wonderful things that I could build. They eventually caved in and bought me one. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the box to find the circular saw and several wafer thin sheets of polystyrene (and it struggled to even cut through those).
I couldn't find a picture but while searching I did find a very funny article on The 8 most wildly irresponsible Vintage Toys.
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Simon .. that beeping sequence game from the 80's
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If it classes as electronic, it would be a crystal set that my mum built for me when I was about 4 years old, nearly 70 years ago.
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I remember as a child seeing an advert for a new set of children's power tools. I pleaded with my parents to get me the circular saw and imagined all the wonderful things that I could build. They eventually caved in and bought me one. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the box to find the circular saw and several wafer thin sheets of polystyrene (and it struggled to even cut through those).
I couldn't find a picture but while searching I did find a very funny article on The 8 most wildly irresponsible Vintage Toys. ![]() that's hilarious. Loved "involved blowing up a bubble of hot glass until it burst in your face, as if that's not how every single project would end anyway."
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Earliest battery-op toy I can remember having was a Palitoy Talking Dalek (you pressed a button on the top of its head that activated a small motor that played a small plastic record with recorded Dalek phrases)
First electronic hand-held was the brilliant Merlin. I liked it as you could play nine separate games on it. The shape of it always reminded me of the Battlestar Galactica ship, only red. |
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Probably a Bigtrak, or a Starbird Avenger
https://s30.postimg.org/4hejryym9/St...and_Base_2.jpg |
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Probably a Tamagotchi or a Game Boy.
I also had a hand held Kareoke Machine which needed batteries but not sure that was a toy. Well.. I suppose it was really lol |
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Tri-ang railway set.
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Little professor,
Scramble, similar to space invaders |
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Nintendo Entertainment System
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Race and chase ,but it was rubbish the cars always came off the track and you had to use this rubber thing to wipe over the tracks ,pants
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Also had a radio that you could hear people talking on cb radios used to spend hours in bed under the covers hearing people chat
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