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I can still hear the slinky tv commercial jingle in my mind after all these years .
Me too. If I ever get hold of whoever wrote that stupid jingle, which I cannot remove from my psyche forty years later, I am going to work on him with the sjambok.
Two games that stick out in my mind are Battleship and Operation. They used to have great commercials for those. Milton Bradley was just big time in those years.
While few will remember them now, the sixties and seventies were the high water mark of complex military simulations - war games. Avalon Hill, Victory Games, GDW, and SPI among others generated excellent board games. Since then this hobby has all but died.
Marbles
Johnny Seven
Red Ryder BB gun
Spirograph
Big Bruiser (battery powered tow truck)
Water filled/pressure propelled rocket
Balsa wood gliders
Erector sets
Toy chemistry sets with real chemicals and real ability to make things go boom!
A wide range of choices for home you-build type electrical/electronic kits, radios, woodburning, etc. Not much of that kind of stuff available now.
My father gave me a Remington pump 16 gauge shotgun. That was my toy.
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