2.24.2009

Childhood Memories

I don't know why, but I get on this kick every now and again...  A mission of finding some toy that I JUST remembered that I loved as a kid.  And then... I MUST find it.  I can't think of anything else until I do.  Because...

Nathan MUST have it NOW.  

(Hello... He HAS to experience the same joy that it brought me when I was little.)

Google is a WONDERFUL place to start my searches!  Even if I can't remember what the toy is called and I can just describe bits and pieces of it... Even if my mother doesn't remember the toy at all and thinks that I'm totally making it up and the toy never really even existed...  I can find it online. 

Here are just a few of the many things I've HAD to look for:

Atari anything... Q-Bert, Stampede, Breakout, Pac Man, Kaboom, etc.  

(NOTHING beats Atari.)

Then there was his bowling themed birthday party that sparked my memory of this little gismo:
I searched and searched until I found it. I love seeing him play with it.  I love playing with it... STILL.

Last night, I had to find this:  (Try to describe this thing without knowing the name!)
Nathan is going to LOVE it!

And while I was looking for that, I found this:  I had forgotten all about Stay Alive!  I loved Stay Alive.

We NEED both.

Of course!

4 comments:

Alwys Shoppin said...

I remember both of those games!!! Were you able to find them anywhere?

Jeannie said...

Kris plays "Stay Alive" at church

~ Straight Shooter ~ said...

Loved this!
I remember Scope and a few others from my own.
Thanks for the great idea!!

Alwys Shoppin said...

This game was called RUN YOURSELF RAGGED when we were kids - I just found it on EBAY listed that way.