I found my light bright!

[HurricaneBob]

Man have i missed playing with this!
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=10601
Sis would get mad when i took her bulb out of the easy bake oven.
I made a dragon! screen shots later!
Youngsters will be like WTF!

[HurricaneBob]

Damn! needs more color pins! Always lost them anyways.



My life is complete now! (sigh)

[Bag]

I've got an "Easy Bake Oven" in the attic if you want to have some real fun! Also, I could round up "Battleship"! (I still like that game )

Those were the days.... 3 channels on the TV, the only video game we ever had was the ping-pong game... How exciting would that be now?!

[gymnast]

I still bust out the litebrites at my parents. I don't like the new pegs they have for them (shorter, I like the long pointy ones) or the new sheets (colored with the letters that shine through)
Yeah my son doesn't find the light brite fun at all, meanwhile I can sit for hours making an elaborate pictoral. In college my litebrite provided mood lighting along with the xmas lights.

[Bert|Evil]

Let me know if you find Shrinky Dinks. They rock!! I still have my GI Joe Shrinky Dink dog tags somewhere.

[Possessed]

I don't know where my wife and daughter got them but we have 8x10 shrinky dink blanks. I have spent many hours drawing band logos with my daughter. I have the VH logo, Slayer,Iron Maiden, King Diamond,and my daughter made Good Charlotte and Green Day. We attach magnets to the back and cover the fridge with them. I plan to make many more.

[Jim Price]

Legend has it that there is a Lite-Brite set stored in the attic at my employer's studios. The last time anyone entered that attic (an engineer several years ago), there was reportedly 4-5 inches of dust covering everything. There's probably twice that amount now.

I still have my old Spirograph stored in the basement at home somewhere. My all time favorite, though, was "Incredible Edibles," where you could make your own gummy candy in the shapes of bugs, spiders, etc.

[songsmith]

I loved incredible edibles! They made a deal for awhile that used a soft plastic, too... Creepy-Crawlies, I think... they stopped because it was horribly unsafe for small children to handle melted plastic, like napalm on the skin.
Spirograph was my favorite, although I wanted a rock tumbler and bottle cutter SOOOOooo bad, but it never happened.---->JMS

[Jim Price]

There also used to be this "toy" from the early 60's called the Vacu-Form (I think Mattel made it), which amounted to heating up small sheets of plastic and placing them over molds and vacuuming the air out to create race cars, animals and other shapes. Likewise, horribly unsafe for small children (I learned the hard way, I put my hand on the hot heating surface when I was 4 or 5, got a nasty 2nd degree burn out of it), and it was pulled from the market.

[Staceman]

My favorite thing growing up was, without a doubt, the Atari 2600 VCS ("Video Computer System").

We started out with a color Pong system in the late 70's, and it took us a while to finally get the coveted 2600, since my dad was old-fashioned. The most memorable times I think, were playing "The Activision Decathlon" cartridge with friends, a major joystick breaker! I even rigged up a special stick to cheat with at the game! Robot Tank was another favorite. And I'm sure many here remember playing the one that came with the system, "Combat", and hating when it was your turn to be the big plane against the 3 smaller ones. Aargh!

Believe it or not, hobbyists are still making games for this ancient game system.

[songsmith]

A lot of people forget the impact of Pong. When it came out, it was the very first instance of you doing something, and a corresponding action happened on the screen... this had never happened before. TV was still only about 20 years old in this area, and because it was your only entertainment at times, it was respected. It was positively miraculous to a 12 year old at the time. It was kind of a Pandora's Box, too... within a few years, video games progressed from a white dot and two white lines to something like Pac Man or Donkey Kong, with recognizeable characters.
Pong also opened doors for other magic boxes that hooked up to your TV, like the Tandy and Commodore computers, which brought personal computing to the masses... prior to this, only colleges and corporations had computers.----->JMS

[4:33]

HSWWSH

[Staceman]

Yars Revenge... awesome game! It was more or less a port of the arcade game "Star Castle".

"HSWWSH"... I think Howard Scott Warshaw hid his initials in other 2600 games as well. (E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark, maybe)

[JeffLeeper]

http://www.sfpg.com/animation/liteBrite.html#

Try that for size.

[HurricaneBob]

Thanks Jeff, but thats what i posted and made my dragon with.

[JeffLeeper]

oops.

[Bert|Evil]

I don't know where my wife and daughter got them but we have 8x10 shrinky dink blanks. I have spent many hours drawing band logos with my daughter. I have the VH logo, Slayer,Iron Maiden, King Diamond,and my daughter made Good Charlotte and Green Day. We attach magnets to the back and cover the fridge with them. I plan to make many more.

Are you making Shrinky Dink pentagrams and goat heads with your daughter? (hehehe)

Nevertheless, no one can say that you don't make time for your kids!!