This may be another quite interesting thread.

My God....What were they thinking back then?

"LAWN DARTS"

Had Them....Abused Them.

Give a 9 year old a 3 pound pointed metal dart and sure as sh_t it's going straight up in the air. I don't know how many times I almost killed myself with those things.

What other things from yesteryear did you have that are outrageously dangerous by today's standard's?

I was JUST talking about " rock fights " today with my brother.

I'll get a rock. You get a rock. We'll throw them at each other.

Ya...those were great. That reminds me of the BB Gun fights we used to have.....and who wore goggles back then....not one of us ever got hit in the eye....amazing!!! Amazingly Stupid that is or was!!

I rigged "Operation" so you could plug it into an outlet.

"Remove Funny Bone"

and

"Husker Du means Do You Remember?"

Shocking!

(literally)

Stupid things that I do not regret doing as a kid:

BB Gun War: (I did purchase really great goggles)

Wall Dart world domination game. Hang National Geographic map 'o the world on wall, points for hitting politically unfavored nations, bonus for capitals! Mom took that map down after I moved out and WAS PISSED!

Wall Dart yard wars. Yes, we did throw these at each other! We only did this once, spent the next two weeks limping...

Throwing rocks at trains to hear the Clong! sound.

Putting objects (sometimes big objects) on tracks to hear the horn wave at the pissed engineer and enjoy the total destruction. (We did a TV once --almost got busted.)

Breaking bottles at some dump somewhere.

Racing bikes down hill 7 percent grade.

Many rock fights!

Tree cutting contests. (I know horrible, but completely gratifying when you win, and the tree falls where you call it.) This done with axes.

Dam creek to make mini lake, only to have farmer walk upstream and make us tear it down. Hey, the water would have started flowing again, just give it a day or two right?

Dig under large boulder, for what seemed like an entire weekend just to see it go tumbling through the woods to the creek below.

Small tree cutting contest. Get old steel machete, sharpen until it is completely dangerous, then pull a "Highlander" move, going for the biggest diameter one swing cut of smaller trees!

(About 2.5 inches was possible!)

In same valley where we tried to make a lake, we piled a ton of green branches to make a totally smoke infsted, but small in reality sized fire. Filled the place, got in trouble huge! All we wanted to do was play tag in the fog....

Lots of high voltage stuff I'm not gonna write here.

Lowered train track warning with jumper cables. We were trying to figure out how it knew the train was coming. Jumped the track at closer and closer distances until the thing closed! Ran off and left traffic stopped for a good long while outta fear.

Sheesh. I made it, don't know how though!

I used to tape coins to the tracks....amazing what a train could do to a half dollar!

Also in Parkrose neighborhood....Clickatat street if memory serves....steep street dead end into guard rail.....started on bikes downhill and jumped off...really cool to see em make it all of the way down and do flips over the guard rail.

I have a really stupid one ... I look back and try to shove my size-14 right up my backside.

I had a buddy who helped run a bowling alley. One night we got loaded and stole a few bowling balls out of the back of the alley, loaded them in my car, and drove off.

The first one my buddy tossed out the window as I was doing 65 mph down the freeway, he bounced it down a freeway offramp ... it bounced right through the window of a brand new BMW sitting on the lot.

The second one got bounced off a cliff, off of a one-way street heading south, and onto the one-way street heading north, into downtown Spokane. The ball rolled downtown.

The third one we let go of at the top of the South Hill (18th and Freya for those in the know). We followed it down Freya in my car, the ball catching more air and more air at each cross section as it hauled ass down the hill. It ended up resting in someone's front yard down near I-90.

The next one we bounced off a train as it was going under the overpass heading into the yard.

The last one he bounced out the window as we were driving by his ex-girlfriend's house ... it took out a tail light in her Subaru parked on the street.

Yeah, I was young and stupid. Now I'm just stupid.

It seems that virtually all pre-teen boys have a fascination with fire and smoking. One summer (I can't remember if it was 1987 or '88), my brother and I decided that we would make lawn cigars (we didn't want to say that we were smoking grass--pardon the pun).

The cigars were made as follows:

1) Some scrap paper (extra ditto sheets of Spanish assigments for my dad's students) were cut into narrow strips.

2) Dried lawn clippings were collected and rolled into cigars.

3) The cigars were held together with Elmer's white glue.

We lit and tried to smoke them. These things were so noxious that it was impossible to take more than a few puffs. The end of my brother's cigar burst into flames during the second or third puff!

New somebody who liked to take Fred Meyers grocery carts and a 20 foot chain and tie carts behind his car (the all metal kind). Then they went for a drive. Sparks flying everywhere! He is lucky to have not kiiled anybody. Slammed that thing into cars and took out mailboxes post and all. By the time he was done he was just dragging the chains as the cart totally disentigrated!

This is a great thread!

I've read over it a coupla times and just laugh hard at the goofy stuff. Seems we all were pretty healthy kids.

Still have evil thoughts about the Operation! game mod from the Merkin though! Hehe, that's something I totally would have done. Hey Johnny, let's play Operation! (Oh yeah)

Brian, I can hardly type when I think about the bowling ball bit! Good grief, that's just so stupid it's funny! Betcha think about that one downtown every so often...

Alfredo, smoking grass? (Yeah, literally!)

Alfredo, one of the things I seriously regret letting go of, was a 1/2KW Tube AM transmitter. It would easily broadcast on the AM band. I simulcasted KSKD for a coupla days... A good friend lived on the back side of a big hill. He received almost no FM. The simulcast was fine though!

Dragging shopping carts! Wow! The only real stupid thing I've done with a car is, turn the key off, flood the carb, then turn it back on with the car in motion, and in gear. *BOOM* Once I did this while the muffler was lined up with a kid doing his paper route. He just fell over, as if shot, completely stunned. (Got a serious warning from the local partrolman and never did it again.)

Ok, who would NEVER let their kids pull any of this crap?

(Raises hand, hoping the kids don't stumble onto this thread.)

OK...let me paint you a picture.

Back corner of my yard was a pile of sand where pool used to be. 10 years old. I loved to build WWII ship models. Had almost the entire Pearl Harbor fleet in my room. Got tired of them though. Fourth of July was not far off and stands were open. Bought bunches of different stuff. Took models to sand pit with fireworks, glue, lighter, and BB Gun. Tore lids of models and cut open fireworks and dumped the powder inside the models. Set them all up and poored model glue all over them and lit them on fire. LOOKED REALLY COOL! Then started to shoot little pieces of them off with my BB Gun. After a while the flame reached the powder magazine....HEHE....and poof there went that one. Had quite a few people there after a while as I did not think about the fact that a cloud of really black smoke was pouring out of my back yard! OOOPS. Oh well to late now....just kept shooting them with my BB Gun. Pearl Harbor in my back yard. Should have filmed it for history class. Anyway things were exploding all over the place and melting and beeing shot to bits. By the time the last powder went off things were pretty much just a pile of goo. Man that was cool till my parents heard about it then I got my fingers burnt for playing with fire!! WORTH IT!! After it all cooled I filled a garbage bag with melted plastic and the bits and pieces I shot off of them.

It was always fun to take my plastic army men out there and set them up in battles. I would be on one side and my friend would be the other. Last man standing was the winner!!! Of course I cheated when I started to lose cause I just started shooting him.....HAHAHA....

BTW.....

I love the modification to operation.....the new and improved version now called "ELECTROCUTION"!

That is just plain eveil...especially if you did not tell your friends that played it with you that you did that. Did his red nose explode when someone set it off?

Merkin....YOU BAD!!!

> Alfredo, smoking grass? (Yeah, literally!)

Yep, there was a definite parody element going on here. This was the summer of 1988. I think that there was a rumor going around at that time that a girl who lived in the neighborhood had smoked pot, and this was our motivation for rolling the cigars.

Another mischievous thing that we were doing that summer was lighting fires with rubbing alcohol. I think that this was my idea because I wanted to do some experiments to see if what my 7th grade science teacher had said was true: that alcohol burns with a blue flame that is cooler than a gasoline flame. We burned Hot Wheels cars and popsicle sticks and the like. Then one of the neighborhood kids accidentally had some alcohol on the back of his hand catch on fire! However, he was able to put it out quickly without injury, which unintentionally verified another thing that my science teacher had said about alcohol fires. Science in Action!!

I think the meanest thing I did was that I grabbed my cat by the tail and swung it around in a circle as fast as I could then let him fly and see if he would land on his feet! He did but I did not! LOL. Got so dizzy could not stand up! The noise the cat made scared my mom and she came running out just as I released. Needless to say once I could walk I could then no longer sit! OUCH OUCH OUCH! LOL

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You notice that while you got a spanking parents always fealt the need to talk to you at the same time?

You..spank..should..spank..not..spank..treat..spank..the..spank..cat..spank..that..spank..way!

Thank heavens she only recited short stories! LOL

I owned my first gun, when I was 6, give a 6 year old a gun today, and your going to jail.

Also had a real bow and arrow set when i was about 8.

Got a real chemestry set, with lots of good chemicals when I wqas 10.

Had rubber band (used pieces of inner tumes) guns.

What about those old bug factories they used to have! "CREEPY CRAWLERS" I think it was called. Had one when I was 6. It was basically a very hot plate with colored tubes of liquid and when put in the molds and heated hardened into bug shaped critters. Had them stuck all over the place...underneath the lid of Mom's toiltet was the best place to get a reaction!!! Anyway I ran out of the official liquid so I proceeded to melt anything I could get my hands on. Green army guys melted up real good!! Don't know whatever happened to that....was there in my room one day......then it was just gone the next!!! I think Mom took it...what do you think?

It's all her fault that I got bored and went outside and swung the cat by it's tail.....I mean if she did not take away the crawler factory then I would not have done that!!!! Well maybe not that day anyway!!!! God I was a little devil back then.....still have the horns today!!!!LOL

Nwokie, I hear that!

I think I still have burn scars from Creepy Crawlers!

Another thing I remember about Creepy Crawlers was that if you got the "Goo" on the styrofoam packaging, the styrofoam would disolve!!!

2 stupid brushes with disaster:

1. My little brother and I were soaking plums in gasoline, lighting them then throwing them. All was fun until my brother knocked over the gas can and set the bush next to the back door on fire.

2. A friend and I were using his dads welding set to load an upturned quart mason jar with acetylene. Then we set a match head wrapped with wire and connected it to a battery charger. We blew out the wooden garage door, and had shards of glass embedded in the walls.

Plums & Gas... Nice!

I've a great acetylene story:

A high-school friend of mine, let's call him Bob, was listening to the metal shop teacher talk about the acetylene bit. Said teacher took us into the shop, put a nice mix into a metal can, then tossed in a match. We got a nice little controlled boom.

Outta our system right?

Wrong.

Bob, decided to inflate a balloon and make a bigger bang. Bob managed to sneak this and a strike anywhere match outside between the school buildings, and promptly lit it.

The resulting boom was really loud. Every student in class, looked out the window to see Bob standing there with a blackened hand and a really dazed look in his face. He had turned away, so only one half of his face was black!

And he just stood there frozen until somebody walked up to him.

In the end, he ended up ok. Didn't lose anything but any hope of a meaningful reputation after that...

Anybody else play "war" with toy M-16's during the height of Viet Nam? My folks didn't object. However, some of my friends parents did. Made choosing friends easier. Hell, at 9 years old, what did we know? And no, I don't own a gun today.

This thread just keeps getting better and better, thanks for all the laughs!

It's good to stretch out and just have some fun for a change.

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I have been posting here going on a couple of years now. This is indeed one of the most entertaining and F'N awesome threads of ALL TIME!

Of course as a child I was a saint "momma's boy" I guess in many ways I am still to this day. But she did teach me respect and manners though. Which I guess is good, Right?

I didn't start to get mischevious and rebellious until about the time my parents dropped me off and left from Providence, RI. Johnson & Wales University.

How about the time some girls who were freaked out about there previous nights (FUN if you can call it that!) adventure with a Weigee sp? board.

They asked me to burn it in the parking lot of where I was working. Yes a inner city transient hotel and bar. Only the bar & hotel was a cheap ass sleazy "Go-Go" club on ground floor level.

I and another desk clerk ATTEMPTED to burn the thing with first matches, then lighter fluid, and alas gasoline. The mother fucker wouldn't burn!!! Only charred the edges.

I am not a religous or even superstitious person, however to this day I refuse to mess around with that game. If anything is made of the DEVIL it is that game indeed!

Let's see what else buying liquor for the entire dorm floor cause I was the only one at 18 that could get away with buying the liquor.

Growing weed on an employer's property YES the business property. Growing weed in my front window for all to see on Federal Hill in Providence RI.

Drinking almost 2 fifths of Tres Generation tequila on the job and then going home and dislocating my elbow so bad that they had to insert pins to hold the shit together.

Alas though when I think about it AND I think about this incident alot a time when I did something so bad as a minor that I still fear legal/ public knowledge about it to seep out today. I am ashamed and my LIPS ARE SEALED....

Don't tempt me like that....I may just buy that!

Right back at ya Merkin!!!!!

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Dark, I need the industrial drum, not some tiny little tube!!!

And Shyguy: You're meeting us. We're going to ply you with whatever liquor you want. Then you are going to spill the beans and tell us what you did. I insist. You'll feel better getting it off your chest. Promise.

Author: Shyguy
Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 9:24 pm

"Growing weed on an employer's property YES the business property. Growing weed in my front window for all to see on Federal Hill in Providence RI."

Greet place to hide something like that there! Right under their proverbial noses and in plain view! LOL Now that is funny!

For about three months, there was a pot plant growing in the little flower bed right outside the entrance door to Hooper Center.

I used to wait for my wife to get done working and saw this. Watched many PDX policemen just point at it and laugh at the Irony.

There is bamboo growing there now.

Ahhhhh....christmas.....Brings back memories.

Who here has never unscrewed christmas light bulbs and chucked them in the air into the street because they sound cool when they explode!!! Got in major trouble one year. Would have got away with it though but darn it they actually turned them on at night....go figure!! I tried to spread it out but it was a dead (or I was dead) giveaway as every other bulb was missing and there were colored spots of glass all over the street!!!

Also.....Mom & Dad went to dinner one night. Brother had a paper route and was putting rubber bands on the papers. I grabbed one and shot at one of the ornaments on the tree. It exploded really cool. He joined in and we proceded to shot a bunch of them. Well we got carried away and shot most of them. We tried to hide it by moving what was left to the front but no way....Mom spotted it in an instant and...well lets just say as in a previous post...got a lecture while receiving the spanking.

Why..spank..did..spank..you..spank..do..spank..that..spank..dont..spank..you..spank..have.. spank..any..spank..common..spank..sense?

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BTW...Also found out the hard way that these were not questions to be answered with either a yes or no just an "I'm sorry".

Example of even answering that with a yes:

Well..spank..why..spank..dont..spank..you..spank..use..spank..it?

Example of even answering that with a no:

Well..spank..why..spank..dont..spank..you..spank..get..spank..some?

Example of even answering that with a I'm Sorry:

You..spank..should..spank..be!


See...much shorter!!!!! LOL

Let's see.......got my first exposure to television at 1 1/2 yrs of age (so I was told...), been watching to this very day!

Odd thing is in the 80s, if you let a kid watch TV it was no big deal. Nowdays it seems if you let kids watch TV you're going to jail for sure! (Just like with a BB gun, Missing?)

What I find truly amazing is I am still alive to talk about it today...Whoooow..........

Well heck back then TV was pretty tame. Ginger and Marianne, Charlie's Angel's, Daisy Duke were about the main thing's any normal boy watched back then. And Dad did not seem to mind them either! Now you got crap on TV (well cable or Sat but not many do not have it) like Southpark, King Of The Hill, Futurama, drawn together, etc, etc. It really is somewhat of a crime to leave a child in control of a remote all by himself. Next thing you know he start dressing like a Twisted Sister band member!!

Motozak, it's wierd and bothers me sometimes.

I think TV was self-correcting back then. Dark has it right, there was not a ton of TV on, that most kids would watch. IMHO, there is something good to this, technology has evolved away.

In the 80's KPTV was the ONLY channel on, as far as I was concerned. That same friend, who lived on the back side of a hill where I re-broadcast KSKD for him, didn't get but two TV channels. It was 6 and 8 I think, maybe 2... heck, it was not KPTV.

This lack of TV was one of the big reasons we ended up doing the stuff we did. I would give anything to go back to the time where I could just walk out the door for the day and only have to come back alive!

We did end up getting KPTV for him though. Spent a ton on about 200 feet of quality coax cable. Read about directional antennas in the library, built one tuned for KPTV, topped a big fir tree (at least 70'), installed the antenna on a platform and used two way radios to communicate picture quality. Took all day, but was worth it. In the end, we were watching Star Trek on his little Sampo black and white TV, munching popcorn and driking Cokes from the bottle.

Getting good color reception was iffy, but otherwise it was totally watchable.

Many things were like that for me. Lack of dollars made getting good sound, for example, a combination of study, trading and or work, then construction. The resulting entertainment was well earned in nearly every case. Looking back, I'm happy for that as I learned a ton.

Same with the car. Bought the car I could, then worked on it until it ran solid. This has saved me a ton of money over the years, also has gotten me outta more than one stupid jam.

Today's kids might have to align the dish tops, or take their car to the mechanic. No challenge in that. Of course they could choose to work on their car, but there is a ton of social pressure to just spend your way through problems.

IMHO, this is bad. It's also why we don't see some of the really great kid toys anymore. I made gunpowder from my chemistry set. Flash powder too! (cool!) Light this and it's fun. Do some more reading and the stink bomb from hell becomes a reality!

In the mid 80's we got computers. The old 8 bit kind. (Atari & CoCo) We spent hours on those, programming whatever we wanted. The capability of the machines was just enough to make cool things possible, but you had to work for it. That meant assembly language and a fairly complete understanding of the machine.

This made games, sounds and control projects possible. (Burnt out at least one control port on the Atari doing this crap. No biggie, most of the time it was just the two of us playing games, so we didn't need 4 ports!)

Today kids get computers and build my space pages. Ok, that's not a completely bad thing, but so many of them just see it like a TV. They don't get what it really is, nor how it might actually work. IMHO, this too is bad. Some work should be required somehow for solid learning to take place.

A big part of why so many things are dangerous is ignorance. We toyed with deadly stuff, but we also used our library too. Building a 100KV jacobs ladder to watch sounds scary, and to a lot of people it is scary. To me and my friends from that time, it was no biggie. Read first, then play!

For a time, I cut off all but broadcast TV. My kids hated it, but ended up doing lots of outside stuff. This was financial at the time, but ended up being a good thing. Highly recommend doing this, if you have young kids.

When camping, I've taken the kids out and have done some goofy stuff with them. When I was young, it was kids only for the most part. Thought I would share some of that and keep the kids safe. The kids ended up getting into it. Building lean-to's, forts, having all sorts of wars with whatever they could find, hiking, etc...

One simple thing that's just a ton of fun is hunting one another. Give one person some time, and some boundaries, then try to track them down. They leave a trail no matter what. The harder you work to understand the world, the more clear this trail becomes. Kids grok this stuff right away. They also will learn complex things about the world, when it's framed in terms of a game.

Maybe our current direction is why we have some of the bigger problems we do. Drugs? Why bother when there is a train track for a great high? TV? Who cares when you can have an all day capture the flag game, set in the woods, with BB guns, rocks and whatever else, maybe just touch (tackle) tag.

I remember some great television and radio, but nothing broadcast comes close to being on par with our days doing things we simply thought about doing. Wasn't safe, but neither is camping on the tube all day either. I'll take my childhood over one in most places today in a second.

There are times when I do think back and wonder if maybe we should have been under a bit more control. Then again, I look around and see shootings, gangs, kids sexualized way too early, limited creative outlets, poor socialization, etc...

Living in the country where I did, one got to know the people nearby. This is good in that it keeps things real. Today, in the city, kids can pick and choose their peers and have a lot of media distractions. I'm not so sure it's any better than having the freedom we did.

The few times we really got into trouble, (and we did) we got a stern talking to and a batch of work to get through. Coupla serious spankings mixed in for good measure as well.

Jail would have changed all of that. For me personally, it would have sharply diminished the simple curiousity and inhibition that was capable of both great things and dangerous things. It's not possible to have one without the other, I'm afraid.

If I had it to do over again, I would have moved from the city and encouraged more of the life I had as a kid. My kids are great, in that I've shared a lot of this, but I think they could have been better still, living away from the noise today.

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Missing~

I never had an Atari (still can't figure out why that was) but I did have a Colecovision (still do) and an Apple IIe (still have that tucked away somewhere too, probably gathering dust in the basement I betcha.)

Gave me an advantage over the other kids in school then, who had never even *seen* an AIIE let alone even knew what it was for!

And re: TV~ I grew up in East Vancouver and back then all we could get was KPTV on 12, some new-fangled and potentially dangerous thing called "Fox 49" (incredibly staticky at that time) and of course, 2, 6, 8 and 10. Even 6 and 8 were kind of scratchy. Occasionally we'd be able to get Home Shopping Club on 22 but you had to put the antennas on your head and dance like a chicken.

I would have to place this around, oh like, 86 or 87....88 maybe. I do remember it was about the time we got our first VCR, an old, monophonic (linear) top-loader JVC which I swear was even bigger than an old System 360! ;o) *laughs*

But I do have some rather fond memories of watching Thundercats on 12 (I was maybe only about 3 or 4 at the time!) and "Hot Streak" (game show), Kate and Alley and of course Jeopardy and Pat & Vanna.

Again, looking back on those times compared to the "expert's" prantings nowdays I am amazed I even managed to survive..........

"Thundercats" was the shit! I loved the Monster Movies, Little Rascals and other oddities that were frequenly found on KPTV. Looking back, they ran a lotta freakshow TV. And of course we slurped it up.

Man, those old VCR's were huge! We had one too. It had one feature that was cool though: It only attenuated the sound on seek, didn't mute it. Maybe it was just broken in this way, as I've never seen a VCR since that did that...

Any of that old Sci-Fi stuff and I was there. Those old goofy out of sinc Godzilla movies, lost in space, voyage to the bottom of the sea, lost in space, spase 1999, and most surely STAR TREK! If it was on that's were I was. If not I was outside causing hell with all of the neighborhood kid's in our "BRAT PACK"! So while not continually glued to the TV back then as quite a bit of today's yoth is I still spent a good deal of time outside with friends.

Heeeeyyy--I LIKED Thundercats. (Still do, and can be frequently seen sporting the Eye of THundera on my shirt if it isn't the Fox Fox.)

VCR still produced sound as it seeked--weird. My Aunt & Uncle used to have an old 1980s-era RCA top loader that seemed to get "stuck" in certain speeds when playing tapes. (It had a system in it that automatically switches speeds as it detected changes in the control track.)

So, if you'd play a tape you recorded in SP mode, then had some stuff in SLP mode right after, it will continue to play the SLP shows in SP mode until you hit STOP then PLAY again. The indicator lights on the front reported it like it was supposed to but the playback didn't seem to be.........

What's amazing is the machine just finally gave up the ghost about two years ago!!

Re: Darktemper~

Still can't figger out what good is to come of the STAR TREK re-masters. At what point does it become necessary to consider a re-MASTER an all-out re-MAKE?

I think they did a South Park episode along these similar lines a while back.............

Hopefully they won't be replacing the phasers with walkie-talkies!!

Moto: I'll bet you didn't have an Atari because you were growing up outside the prime window. If you were watching the cats at ~4, then Atari was peaking with the older kids and the new stuff was gonna hit fast and hard after that.

That made all the difference where having an Atari was concerned. Either one owned the unit and got hooked on it's particular style of gaming, or one didn't and headed the Coleco / Intelli route.

Of course, all roads lead to Nintendo, with a few SEGA holdouts... The NES just OWNED the US market with the right kind of console at the right time.

"Moto: I'll bet you didn't have an Atari because you were growing up outside the prime window. If you were watching the cats at ~4, then Atari was peaking with the older kids and the new stuff was gonna hit fast and hard after that."

Probably. Although I would likely find Atari viable nowdays....see, I have always tended to be "behind the times" as far as tech is concerned. (In the world of the Game Cube and now WII, which sounds more like a tax form than a video-game system to me, *rimshot* I am still running Super Nintendo for cryin' out loud!)

Didn't finally get my Coleco until about 2000 or so, purchased from somebody at school for $30. Has the two regular "telephone" controllers, plus three of the big "Super Action" controllers (with the big coloured buttons on the handle, which I actually prefer over the regular ones. Easier for me to manipulate with my inhumanly large hands I think..... ;o) and a mess of about 70 carts.

Didn't have Intellivision (still don't), but I hear it is very similar to Coleco but with simpler controllers. (Cartridge design is completely different too.)

"Of course, all roads lead to Nintendo, with a few SEGA holdouts..."

And I have the original Donkey Kong and Zaxxon (my FAVOURITE) games for the CV, I should mention........

Awwwww...who needs that hueeey techno stuff

Just toss it all out and replace it with the game I had as a kid "PONG"

Now there is a game system for you!!

I have always liked Pong.......

I was in heaven when I got my Atari and good ol' Pitfall Harry!

Gator's ate him up quite a bit!!! LOL