I've been at home for the past couple days, laid up with a mysterious ailment (sore throat & fever, superhuman strength, x-ray vision, overactive imagination). The whole thing has made me nostalgic for some of the childhood toys that always kept me company whenever I stayed home from school:
First off, there was my stamp collection. My mom bought me a softcover beginner's stamp album, the H.E. Harris "Explorer" album, when I was like...four years old. She also gave me a huge bag of worldwide stamps to go with it. The bag included zillions of stamps from Spain that pictured Francisco Franco, for some reason. I really loved working on my stamp collection back then, especially on sick days.
Then there was Sandlot Slugger. This was a baseball toy featuring a plastic mechanical batter that could swat a ping pong ball across an average-size living room, at the touch of a button. I would play this game alone, bashing homers against my bedroom walls, or with my younger brothers standing in as outfielders. Very cool game!
I also loved Sure Shot Hockey, a small tabletop ice hockey rink. With two plastic figurines on each team and a black marble as the "puck", this game was pure lightning-fast excitement.
First off, there was my stamp collection. My mom bought me a softcover beginner's stamp album, the H.E. Harris "Explorer" album, when I was like...four years old. She also gave me a huge bag of worldwide stamps to go with it. The bag included zillions of stamps from Spain that pictured Francisco Franco, for some reason. I really loved working on my stamp collection back then, especially on sick days.
Then there was Sandlot Slugger. This was a baseball toy featuring a plastic mechanical batter that could swat a ping pong ball across an average-size living room, at the touch of a button. I would play this game alone, bashing homers against my bedroom walls, or with my younger brothers standing in as outfielders. Very cool game!
I also loved Sure Shot Hockey, a small tabletop ice hockey rink. With two plastic figurines on each team and a black marble as the "puck", this game was pure lightning-fast excitement.
