Stuff I miss from my childhood.

[funboy6942]

I miss from my childhood

School
Stompers
Speek and Spell
Tv's with knobs that broke you had to use plyers to change the channels
Same tvs with broken antennas you replaced with gobs amounts of tiin foil.
Real transformers. not the crappy ones of today but where Optomus Prime was a semi and looked like a real semi. Same with all the other transformers.
Cliff Hangers RC track
Big green machine Big wheel (I believe thats what it was called. Had no steering wheel)
Regular Big wheels
Banana seat bikes
My bike spokes with a playing card attached to make clicking sounds
Big League Chew
Base Ball cards with the hard as hell gum that cracked teeth
Pop rocks
Cliff hangers race track
The stomper like trucks that had the claws come out when it would get stuck
Rough Riders
Radio Shack Armatron robotic arm
Tandy 80
Atari 2600
Comadore vic 20 and 64 tape driven and 5 1/4 floppy
Strech Arm strong
Land of the Lost
Speed Buggy
Captin Kangaroo
Boo berry Cerial

All I can remember for the moment

 

[blackdogdeek]

summer vacation
christmas vacation
midwinter recess
spring break
friday off for thanksgiving
less to worry about
having everything provided for me
sleeping late

 

[Lola]

whoa... thats a long list.
why can't you eat pop rcoks as a "grown up"?
or Boo Berry cereal? they still make them!

anyways, i miss:
Gem and the Holligrams
My Little Pony
Care Bears
Muppet Babies
Jelly Shoes
My first two wheel bike. It was white and purple and had unicorns on it
The board game "Grape Escape" and Cooties
Feeling the excitement on the first day of school going to new classes and meeting new teachers.
The excitement i got when my family put up our christmas tree and decorations together.
Waking up on christmas morning feeling so happy to see that Santa had come.
The over-all feeling of something special around the holidays (no matter if it was Easter, Halloween, etc.). I no longer have that feeling.

 

[jemcam]

My parents not being divorced.
My Dad being alive

Damn, that hurts.

Okay, enough of that sappy stuff:

Going to my Grandparents and watching TV in color. And they had remote control. (this was in the 60's and it was a big deal)

 

[Spydermag68]

my Franklin Ace 2400 -- Apple ][e clone
Rubic's Cube

 

[Gibsons]

Saturday morning cartoons.
Playing tackle the man with the ball (aka smear the ___)

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Being excited about things.
Good music.

 

[6StringSamurai]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
I no longer have that feeling.

I know how you feel. I remember coming home from school and riding my bike around my neighborhood from 3:00pm till 8ish, and feeling like I had been out there forever. The world seemed bigger, more enchanting. Holidays were looked at in anticpation for months. I can remember summer feeling like it lasted a lifetime, and now I hardly get used to the warm weather and it's cold again already.

I miss that magic feeling of my youth, where nothing mattered in the world but how long before I got to go outside and play. No responsibilites, no worries, food, shelter, and clothes provided. Vacations were an adventure, etc. Sigh...now I am depressed at work in my gray, mundane, cubicle. What I wouldn't give to be back in that tree fort me and my friends built. We wouldn't have traded it for the biggest mansion in Beverly Hills.

 

[ViviTheMage]

playing diablo 2 all day, all night, skip school, play more.

 

[SagaLore]

I miss nothing. I had nothing.

 

[Ktulu]

I just miss my childhood in general
riding bikes
playing NES/Genesis
faking stomach aches to skip school
etc.

Thanks Funboy now I'm depressed.....being an adult sucks.

 

[purbeast0]

going outside to "play"
water gun/baloon fights
summer break
watching x-men on saturday mornings
collecting baseball/basketball/comic cards
wiffle ball
kick ball
recess
eating cereal
paper/video versions of porn

all i can think of for now

EDIT:

domino rally
record breakers
Fast Traxx
that damn Tyco hydroplane (cant think of its name!!)

 

[Atheus]

Days at the beach fishing with nets and spears, swimming, swinging out on the rope swing and dropping 10 feet into the creek. Going to the shops to get 1 cent sweets from the dairy. Finding old bikes on inorganic rubbish collection day and riding them until we found more, better, bikes. BB guns. Bullrush. Being able to walk in the street in bare feet without worrying about stepping on a junkie's needle or something. New Zealand FTW!.. Also NES, Lego, Tintin.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Playing Doctor

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Playing Doctor

:thumbsup:

 

[SoulAssassin]

ignorance

 

[neegotiator]

watching saturday morning cartoons religiously

 

[lokiju]

My biggest problem in life not being able to get past a level in Mario.

I couldn't wait until I was all grown up and an adult, I always thought "then I can do whatever I want, when I want" now I have to work my ass off to keep afloat. It was better being a kid.

 

[SpanishFry]

Dodgeball.
Playing in the creek behind our house.
Having all of the neighborhood kids crowd around the NES and everyone sleeping over.
Watching Saved by the Bell on Saturday mornings.
Having the family together all of the time. Now we're all doing things separately (naturally).
Playing baseball in an organized league


Aye, this is quite depressing.



Edit to add: Being a kid kept you really insulated with close groups of people. I had my neighborhood kids that I went to school with and then we got to hang out after school and weekends so we were always doing something. Now, I have my work "friends" and then friends that I socialize with when we can arrange it.

 

[ITJunkie]

the ability to climb trees like a monkey

 

[LeetViet]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
playing diablo 2 all day, all night, skip school, play more.

 

[funboy6942]

Sorry I didnt want to depress anyone. But I guess I did kinda huh My bad.
I forgot all about the faking sick to get to stay home all day, playing doctor, and yeah the hollidays do kinda suck nowadays. Not at all like I remember as a kid. And i to was a saturday mordning cartoon kid. I dont remmebr much lat was ob back then other then what I mentioned OH and Grape Ape.

Ah to be a kid again

 

[blazerazor]

HOPE.

 

[Kadarin]

I miss the feeling that summer vacation seemed to last forever. I miss innocence, and the feeling that the world was new. Not having to work.

 

[pontifex]

tons of stuff - mostly being a child