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Anyone remember the precursors to electronic football games, like the one where you inserted miniature LPs into a miniature player for each play, or the one where you selected and offense and defense "card" and would spin a little round ball to see the outcome, or the one that was a big football field and you each pushed a button to light up the result of the play?
And how's this for obscure: anyone remember the board game "Ellsworth Elephant??"
I had a card football game as well as the "Computer Football" that you mentioned...the one with the big field....I'd forgotten all about that! Think I got it one Christmas around 1967 or '68. Wish I still had it.
They were made of sheepskin & called Wooly Willie's or Wooly Worms. We got ours at the MN Sheep & Lamb Producers Ass'n store.
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Does anyone remember a toy from late 60's early 70's that had a leather strip on the bottom, fur on top with googlie eyes on it? You petted it and it squirmed like it was crawling? Probably about a foot in length? I can't for the life of me remember what they were called.
My parents still have my 2 original G. I. Joes, complete with foot locker and Jeep. Wish I still have my G.I. Joe FanClub lifetime membership certificate. I was proud of that! lol To show what a life I have on a Saturday night, I have been sitting here scanning through this entire thread! lol Two toys I don't think I saw listed were Johnny 7 O.M.A. (One Man Army). It was an Army machine gun that had 7 different guns or weapons hidden on it. Then there was Sonny Six Finger. It was a little dart gun type toy that looked like a finger so you could hide it in your hand. You could write a message on a very small piece of paper and wrap it around the "dart" to shoot out of the end of the finger.
I like going to Cracker Barrel restaurant and look around their store. Besides the Slinky (which you can buy just about anywhere now) they have several of these older toys. Remember the man's face and the metal shavings where you took the magnet and moved the shavings around to give him hair and a beard? They have those, plus the old sock monkeys and a lot of the older toys!
The fact I remember that jingle is kind of scarey because I grew up as the only girl in a family of all male cousins. Guess that explains why I am remembering many of the toy gun, vibrating football game, etc kinds of toys...LOL Oh yeah I also was lucky enough to inherit many of their hand me down toys...LOL
Mousetrap. Great game to play the first time. Then you lose a few pieces because you're a kid, and it's never right again.
90% of the times we played it a piece broke because they weren't made very well and were hard to connect together. Horrible when you are a nine years old and it's your birthday present.
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Oh yeah I also was lucky enough to inherit many of their hand me down toys...LOL
