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Monopoly 75
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Roller Skates 73
Rubiks Cube
Simon
Sindy
Skateboards
Skateboard 77
Slime
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Trivial Pursuit
Toy Guns
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I Love Toys - Remembering the Playtimes of Yesterday
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Top Toy
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The fiendishly difficult Rubiks Cube MORE >>

WalkmanWalkman
Music to Go
SkateboardsSkateboards
Street surfin' takes over the pavements

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Pictures, video clips and memories of the toys we all used to love.

Toys from:
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
Atari
The first console.
Biolater
Check your biorhytyms at home. But, why?
Chopper
It's a Chopper baby. It's Zed's, baby.
Eight Track
Proto-cassette tapes that just didn't last.
Fun Bubbles
Fairy Liquid gets street cred.
Hackey Sac
American Beanbag-ankle-interface fun.
Kites
Peter Powell's flying wonders.
Klackers
Bounce those balls together.
Lego
Little bricks that do anything.
Magna-Doodle
Hi-tech doodling, with magnets and iron filings. Who needs paper?
Mastermind
The game no-one wanted on wet playtimes.
Monopoly
Unleashing the inner capitalist within us all.
Monopoly (1975)
Amateur Capitalism, 2.
Othello
Like Chequers, and Go. But not.
Pinball
The flipping, bouncing, bumping, leisure love machine.
Pong
Beep-based torture for parents?
Raw Power
Make your bike sound like Eddie Kidd's.
Roller Skates
Wheels on your feet, followed by broken bones. And... disco!
Roller Skates (1972)
Feet, or wheels? Why not have both!
Rubiks Cube
Three by three by three by frustrating.
Simon
Follow the flashing lights.
Sindy
Not quite Barbie, but she had a house.
Skateboards
Surfing takes to the streets, kicking out a fashion revolution
Skateboarding (1977)
Street Surfin' in 77
Slime
The best, most disgusting toy ever.
Space Hoppers
Boing, boing, boing, boing, ouch.
Star Wars Figures
Get them ALL! ALL of them!
Stylophone
Oh lordy, it's Rolf Harris' electronic whine.
Trivial Pursuit
Cheeses, wedges and six fiendish categories.
Toy Guns
Teach them those good values young.
Uno
Blackjack, for Kids.
Walkman
Wired for sound with music to go.
Womblemania
Underground, overground, everyone wanted one.
Yo-Yos
What goes down must come up - after a few tricks.



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