Hi Rich & Tikay have a great show do you remember the Robot Boxer
When i was a Kid that was the toy to have, it kept me & me mates amused for hours you had 2 handles with buttons & all you had to do was to knock the opponents head off to win
Sodastream, the teasmaid, hostess trolley, calculators with a hundred buttons you knew nothing about, Wind up alarm clocks, I still have hundreds of old video tapes in the loft! Polaroid instamatic camera.
I remember a game called "Crossfire" Where you repeatedly fired steel ball bearings from a plastic gun at a large puck type thing to try and score into your oppo's goal.
Inevitably someone always caught a ricochet in the eye. (iPad, we had them back then on standby, just in case).
As a youth I remember when my parents rented the latest (and at the time very revolutionary) telephone model called the 'Trimphone'. It was the 1st telephone manufactured that did not incorporate a bell but an electronic warbler that mimicked a bird and had an extra long lead that allowed you to walk around the room whilst having a conversation. The dial glowed in the dark due to it's radiactivity and the phone came in 3 colours (ours was 2-tone blue) and for it's day, very popular with the younger kids as it had that wow factor , just a terrible shame they were so unreliable.
Record players that played 78's - Mario Lanza FTW Black & White TV's & spending hours fiddling with the vertical/holizonal hold buttons My first computer was the Commodore 64, I spent hours playing Space Invaders & Breakout
just been speaking to mother and she said something about going to a shop to get acid for the battery for a radio???? also asking if tikay had a Davey Crockett hat????
kids today probably still buy acid from the shop, but im not going there!!!!!
NOT a gadget but I'm sure TK will remember these....GREEN SHIELD STAMPS!
You got 4 x stamps free for filling your car up with petrol. Stuck them on a card, and when you had saved up 30,000 stamps you redeemed them in a Green Shield shop (bit like Argos) for goods in the catalogue e.g. 30K got you something like a toaster! Remember working it out once that to get a toaster you needed to spend circa £10K in petrol!!! Ahh the good old days!!!
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Hi Rich & Tikay have a great show do you remember the Robot Boxer
When i was a Kid that was the toy to have, it kept me & me mates amused for hours you had 2 handles with buttons & all you had to do was to knock the opponents head off to win
Michael
the teasmaid,
hostess trolley,
calculators with a hundred buttons you knew nothing about,
Wind up alarm clocks,
I still have hundreds of old video tapes in the loft!
Polaroid instamatic camera.
I remember a game called "Crossfire"
Where you repeatedly fired steel ball bearings from a plastic gun
at a large puck type thing to try and score into your oppo's goal.
Inevitably someone always caught a ricochet in the eye.
(iPad, we had them back then on standby, just in case).
Where would we be today, without Health & Safety.
It was the 1st telephone manufactured that did not incorporate a bell but an electronic warbler that mimicked a bird and had an extra long lead that allowed you to walk around the room whilst having a conversation.
The dial glowed in the dark due to it's radiactivity and the phone came in 3 colours (ours was 2-tone blue) and for it's day, very popular with the younger kids as it had that wow factor , just a terrible shame they were so unreliable.
Record players that played 78's - Mario Lanza FTW
Black & White TV's & spending hours fiddling with the vertical/holizonal hold buttons
My first computer was the Commodore 64, I spent hours playing Space Invaders & Breakout
can i say that the show, so far, has been fab?
8 track stereo
kids today probably still buy acid from the shop, but im not going there!!!!!
NOT a gadget but I'm sure TK will remember these....GREEN SHIELD STAMPS!
You got 4 x stamps free for filling your car up with petrol. Stuck them on a card, and when you had saved up 30,000 stamps you redeemed them in a Green Shield shop (bit like Argos) for goods in the catalogue e.g. 30K got you something like a toaster! Remember working it out once that to get a toaster you needed to spend circa £10K in petrol!!! Ahh the good old days!!!
Pad
I've come up with an 'exciting' new quiz strand tonight...
What's...in Tikay's box?
Yes, the mind boggles (shudder).
What in fact IS in Tikay's box are 3 prizes: 2 entries to decent buy-in tourneys and one booby prize.
We need 3 contestants though via the usual channel......skyopen@bskyb.com
Email us your phone number and we'll get you on the air to answer five questions on a subject of your choosing from poker, TV and film.
Whoever gets the most answers right out of 5, gets to delve in Tikay's box. Enjoy!
Im sure he has 3 man bags you could use
Making the prize "getting to delve into Tikay's box" is not helping your cause!
Does it go something like this rich?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHP-Td7LZw8