Born in the 70s, our toys taught us to use our imagination. Toys now do pretty much everything for you. The plastics in those days were plastics that last forever. Today is a life of people who don't want to work they just want to sit and let things work for them.
I had a pair of Klackers and we used to see how fast we can make the large glass balls clack together. My skull still has the dents from the numerous times the glass balls hit my head and gave my skull dents from the times they hit my head and gave me dents. Oh, I'm repeating myself in circles again. Stupid Klackers!
I think they banned the glass ones because kids were getting shards in their eyes. I remember a thing back then was to see if you could get the balls and cord to wrap around a telephone/power wire. You used to see them there quite frequently along with an occasional pair of sneakers
I really miss the 70's. When I was a kid we had "Family Game Night" every week. We played 'games like Trouble' with the (pop-o-matic), ''Operation', Monopoly' (which my dad was a savage at and had NO MERCY on us kids).😂😂😂 I miss the days of playing games outside like 'Jacks" on our front stoop, 'Double Dutch, 'Hot Peas and Butter' ( which was like Tag) etc...I feel sorry for the kids today who spend 90% of their time awake on their phones today.
Born 1964, had every one of those amoung many more… 70s were awesome! Music was also the ultimate - still dominates and imitated today… I was so lucky!!!
One cool thing about the 70s in general was the emphasis on child independence. Kids were encouraged to be independent thinkers, creative and (in some case) learn how to fend for themselves. This was a time when adults were "finding" themselves and children were seen as in the way. This allowed kids to explore the woods, ride their bikes all over, go throughout the city, etc. Parents would often lock the kids out of the house and tell them to be back when the sun went down. Groups of kids would ride bikes together, built forts in wooded areas and really get to experience other kids without constant pressures and supervision of parents. The TV shows had educational aspects for kids to learn things, but also developed storylines where kids had to make complicated decisions with little to no adult input. There were lots of kids adventure shows, and there were the after school specials that dealt with heavy topics like peer pressure, drug use, teenage pregnancy and even sexual assault. The 1980s saw a different direction with TV show geared towards toy sales and violence with little educational aspects. Also, it was the beginning of more and more adult supervision beginning with baby-on-board signs and a switch to children being portrayed as cute rather than troublemakers. The hippies turned yuppies started to move into parenting mode and pretty soon childhood independence was replaced by rides in the mini-van to soccer practice and after-school tutors.
We played outside most days all day long. We played Mother May I, Red Light Green Light, street football, street long hide and seek at dusk and rock wars.
I was born in the 70’s and remember so many of these because they were also popular into the 80’s. To the dude on the right, I agree that the 70’s and 80’s were a really creative period and really fun if you were a young person. But I always marvel at someone who was born in 1880 or around that time period. Someone born then and who lived let’s say 70 years would’ve gone from reading by candlelight and traveling by horse and buggy to driving cars, flying in airplanes, watching movies and then television, seeing the atom bomb dropped. The entire world became electrified and mechanized within the span of one human life. The entire 20th century is one of the most transformative time periods ever known. The way people lived just completely and fundamentally changed.
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots would be a good non board game for the group to play. There still groups that have conventions and meetings for the Tudor Games NFL Electric Football.
Trouble, Operation, Mystery Date, Barrel of Monkeys, Battleship and card games were in heavy rotation at our house, but I was more into listening to the great record albums that seemed to be released weekly.
By the 70s, my toy days were coming to an end, but some 60s toys carried over, like Lite-Brite, Barbie, and Lego. some of the toys I had in the 60s included an Easy Bake Oven, Etch-A-Sketch, and the View Master, a gadget you could look at 3D cartoon clips. It was like having your own portable movie theater! There was also a game for girls called "Mystery Date". The original tv ad for it was quite catchy!
The 70s were so much fun. People think we were missing out because we didn't have the technology but we weren't missing out on anything! We were better off--we played outside, we olayed board games together (as opposed to having your face in your phone or other devices all the time). We hung out with groups of friends and played together. It was a much simpler, more family oriented time. Families were closer knit and we had fun!
I was born in 1970 and remember all these toys. If I didn't have it, my brother & sister did. My cousins had the hand-held electric games. Generation X rocks 🤘
I loved the Little People dolls. Yes, I had a set in the 80's. Now you can get special ones themed off of TV shows and movies...Golden Girls, Mickey and Friends, Harry Potter, Friends, Batman, various Disney movies...a collector's dream.
In my opinion, the 70s was the best time to be a kid. I had the slinky, Operation game, Rock Em, Sock Em Robots, Hot Wheels, A Six Million Dollar Man action figure, Evil Knievel action figure and car, Talking ViewMaster, and many board games popular at the time. My sister had an easy bake oven that use to bake the cakes via light bulb! I also had the Starsky And Hutch board game. Also had that Bionic Woman Game, that was one of my favorite shows.
I had a Barbie Beauty Center which was a large Barbie head and you could put make up on her and style her hair. She had a retractable ponytail. I loved that toy!
Pogo stick, hula hoop, rock em sock em robot, electronic football game, pick up sticks, yard darts, cap guns..we had so many different toys and some of them were kinda dangerous..my favorite was a chemistry set that had real chemicals..
I had so many great toys in the 70s. I kept most them in great condition until I moved away from my parent's house when I got my first job out of state. One time when I came home to visit, my Mom informed me that she gave them away to my nephews and a neighbor, who all destroyed them. I was so pissed. I would have kept them all to this day if she hadn't and they would have been worth a lot of money. I had a bunch of Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars. I also had original Star Wars figures & X Wing plane. I had all the Fischer Price little people, Adventure people, lots of the games of that time. I did manage to keep my original Atari & the first Texas Instruments computer from the early 80s.
They have knitting machines at Micheals and Hobby Lobby for adults now. Saw a video yesterday of someone playing Hungry, Hungry Hippo with their dog using dry dogfood. I remember my sister's kids enjoyed riding on the Big wheel tricycle in the 70s. I was in Jr. High - High school in the 70s, so I wasn't into toys. We had games like Connect Four and Aggravation, that I played with my family.
My family didn't have much money, so my siblings and I would get most of our toys from the Thrift store. But for birthdays and Christmas we would get whole new toys (before at Thrift Shops a game would also miss pieces). Anyway, I once got an EZBake Oven (loved it!), we got this Monkees hand toy that you'd have to pull a string and you'd get to hear the band members speak, but a toy I've always wanted but could never get was Marvel the Mustang. This toy horse didn't have batteries, all a kid had to do to make the horse "walk" or "gallop" was to jump up and down on the saddle. 🐴
Payday was one of my favorites. Simon would be a fun game to watch you play. We could spend an entire Saturday afternoon trying to get the Evil Kaneval motorcycle to do tricks. It was really fun being a kid back then.
the rubics cube came out in the late 80's. The 70's were amazing. We were so much more free then. Nobody attached to technology, we focused on each other, music, dancing, hanging out in nature....it was the best.
They used to show us show in elementary school on projectors about bus and stranger safety. They were so graphic and horrifying. One of the was about a kid who stuck his head out of the bus window and he was decapitated. I was 6 years old. We were raised to be tough back then and not soft.
Hi guys, love your channel and your input. I woild love to see you play Kerplunk, Sorry, Stratego or even Tripoli. They're all great game night games. Keep being and having fun, its contagious!
I still have my Kodak Ektra 1 camera I got in 1978. It used a flash bar instead of the flash cube. I had a Battle Star Galactica game called 'Space Alert,' that used the flashing lights like that football game featured in the video. I also had a lot of those pocket pinball type games Our family got the Telstar console in the late '70s, which had the 'Pong' game along with a single player 'Jai Alai' hand ball game and the dual paddle hockey game. Not shown in the video, we had Klackers, G.I. Joes, SSPs, cap guns, cork guns, water guns--I even had a Thompson sub-maching gun style water gun, many kinds of boardgames, and plastic model kits. So many toys, games and hobby items. I'm sure I've forgotten some.
@@jethro1963 Mine was 'Rock'em Sock'em Robots,' and a crane made by any brand. We got most things we asked for, but somehow those escaped me. My dad managed a variety store, and we ended up getting a returned and used SSP 'Smash Up Derby' set. We got quite a few used/damaged toys that way. One way I learned to fix things.
Sock 'em Boppers came out in the 70's. They were inflatable boxing gloves, but blown up to be twice as large. You could smack each other with them and it wouldn't hurt..haha, good fun, until someone actually got hurt!
Wow! I remember about 95% of those toys, and played with most of them. I also remember playing with waffle stompers. Probably a parent’s nightmare today, but they were fun to walk on!
I don't know if it's a 60's or 70's game, but I recommend the game Sorry!. Before you play it I also suggest you watch Carol Burnett, Eunice and family playing the game of Sorry!. Oh, my favorite 70's toy was a "Johnny Lightning" race car set.
A lot of the electronic games of the 70's were offshoots of high-tech devices used in aerospace and government, issued to the public once it became obsolete for their use. There were items such as wireless phones and computers not yet released for public use.
careers was another fun board game in the same kind of theme as payday..i think clue may have first come out in the 70's and of course rock em sock em robots
Hey!:) Paul here. I remember the 70s well and I enjoyed reliving those memories. As always, another enjoyable video with intelligent discussions. You guys are a good (and an enjoyable) bunch. If you're ever in Maine, look me up! Saludos.....
Aurora AFX race car set commercials in 1973 opened with the line "Race car driver Peter Revson talks to parents" Within a year the AFX spokesman would be dead in an F1 test session crash. His father and uncle had started the Revlon cosmetics company and "Champagne Peter" as he was known, led a charmed life. Unfortunately his younger brother Doug met the same end as Peter in a race in 1967.
We had board games like, Life, PayDay and Chutes and ladders. I also, had all things Barbie plus every baby doll. Baby that-away. Baby talks and one that eats. Oh yeah, I used the crap out of my Easy bake oven. Lastly, I have very fond memories of my mom and brother a I watching a View Master on a little box screen. Good times!
We play Operation shots, Perfection shots is good too. The clothes were horrible then trust me i remember. Imagine the fun or having your bell-bottoms get wound up in the bicycle chain every 5 seconds.
My opinion growing up in the 70s was the best , we would be outside most of the day , our parents didn't know where we were or what we were doing , but we'd better be at home when the street lights came on . I remember all those toys . Our neighborhood games were stick ball , tag and hide & seek. The girls would play stuff like jump rope and jacks and boys cops & robbers or cowboys and Indians.
Vietnam war was going on when I was little and the funny thing is I don’t remember seeing anything about it on the news because the TV wasn’t on that much. It was a different time for sure. Kids were very independent. We were mostly raised by hippies who had a hands off approach. It’s amazing so many kids survived.
Gotta do unsafe toys of the 60s and 70s. Those were great toys but unsafe. Creepy Crawlers is one I've burnt my fingers as a kid. Love your facial expressions and fascination with this video.
😅Maybe ya guys should check out the tippy psychedelic kids' Saturday morning shows, like Lidsville, H.R. Puff 'n Stuff, Land of the Lost & Sigmon theSea Monster!
i'm millennal gen y i was born in the early 90s i think both 70s, 80s and 90s are the best decades ever in my honest opinion i would say these 3 are my favorite decade era
Battleship was super popular, and Operation was frustrating, but cool. Trouble, was a lot of fun, I'm trying to remember how it worked. It had poppers that you pushed. The Game of Life was a favorite. I was more of a Hot Wheels kid building tracks down the stairs, and racing the cars..
I had Matchbox before I had Hot Wheels. Got a set from sending in Javex labels and a couple dollars. I preferred Matchbox over Hot Wheels because I liked the realistic vehicles over more "cartoony" cars.
@@jethro1963I had some Matchbox cars also, before Hot Wheels came out. Ended up with a wheel case full, though they were pretty beat up at that point.
Yes. Big family game nights. Everyone outside...tons of people DRAGGING MAIN STREET... NEIGHBOR HOOD HIDE AND SEEK. HUGE TOWN WATERBALOON FIGHTS... GREAT REACT GUYS...TOYS EVIL KANEIVAL.,.VERTI BIRD HELICOPTER...
This was great to watch but there are so much more toys from the seventies that were so cool.😀but yes we had to be creative because technology was not there yet so we were always outside making up games with neighborhood friends .
Those cubes with colors on them they had to match them up that came out in the 60s cuz I remember getting one when I was 11 years old having tonsils out 1962
Id like to see yall react to the "dial" type phones from the 60's & before i hear young folks like yourselves wouldnt know how to dial ❤ bless your hearts 😘
Born in 1961. Statisically, there were actually more drugs being used in the '70s than the '60s. The decades of post-war prosperity were the '50s & '60s. The '70s was plagued with double-digit inflation & unemployment, two gas/oil crises. Urban decay, massive crime, etc. But alas, there was still tons of creativity & innovation during that period.
Oh. By the Way.... We certainly NEVER got Our Toys at WAL- MART👎🫣...WE Got our Toys at TEMPO...ALCO...GIBSONS...TG&Y..........OTASCO... K-MART... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.....5 AND DIME... LIFE KICKED TAIL ..And Yes. Several of us QUIT Drinking before we were Seniors in Highschool...
The Hudson Brothers were cool. I just went and looked up a video about Chucky Margolis, it still cracked me up "Hey Margolis, whaddya want high school kid"
The 70s were not prosperous, lol. Prices on meat went so high that Nixon actually instituted a price freeze -- very uncommon here. I remember they sold meat extender, soy I think that you mixed with meat to create more. Interest rates went to 17% and wages stagnated and there was high unemployment. American cars were just horrible in design, workmanship, reliability. And of course there were the oil embargoes and gas lines. I remember having to get up at 5 am to get to the gas station in time to sit in line after making sure it was your day to get some. Watergate rocked the country, Ford pissed everyone off with that pardon (the right move but people felt cheated) and Carter, who was a decent man, was a micromanager. People felt defeated under him (the "malaise" you hear about). The hostage crisis was just the icing on the cake. Wow, I wrote book. Just suffice to say the "sagging 70s" were not prosperous. Oh, and I didn't even mention disco! Great as always guys, keep them coming.
Shrinky Dinks! Creepy Crawlers! These were all toys that you had to bake in a hot oven!
He's right about 70's creativity. It's the best decade of music too.
Born in the 70s, our toys taught us to use our imagination. Toys now do pretty much everything for you. The plastics in those days were plastics that last forever. Today is a life of people who don't want to work they just want to sit and let things work for them.
Klackers and Lawn Darts!❤😂
I had a pair of Klackers and we used to see how fast we can make the large glass balls clack together. My skull still has the dents from the numerous times the glass balls hit my head and gave my skull dents from the times they hit my head and gave me dents. Oh, I'm repeating myself in circles again. Stupid Klackers!
@bryanCJ2105 My siblings and I used to play with Klackers! They were dangerous! I'd hurt my hands when the Klacker accidentally hit my hands.
I think they banned the glass ones because kids were getting shards in their eyes. I remember a thing back then was to see if you could get the balls and cord to wrap around a telephone/power wire. You used to see them there quite frequently along with an occasional pair of sneakers
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I loved clackers. Also we had the rubber poggle that went to hop scotch that you threw ti land on the square
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I really miss the 70's. When I was a kid we had "Family Game Night" every week. We played 'games like Trouble' with the (pop-o-matic), ''Operation', Monopoly' (which my dad was a savage at and had NO MERCY on us kids).😂😂😂 I miss the days of playing games outside like 'Jacks" on our front stoop, 'Double Dutch, 'Hot Peas and Butter' ( which was like Tag) etc...I feel sorry for the kids today who spend 90% of their time awake on their phones today.
Born 1964, had every one of those amoung many more… 70s were awesome! Music was also the ultimate - still dominates and imitated today… I was so lucky!!!
One cool thing about the 70s in general was the emphasis on child independence. Kids were encouraged to be independent thinkers, creative and (in some case) learn how to fend for themselves. This was a time when adults were "finding" themselves and children were seen as in the way. This allowed kids to explore the woods, ride their bikes all over, go throughout the city, etc. Parents would often lock the kids out of the house and tell them to be back when the sun went down. Groups of kids would ride bikes together, built forts in wooded areas and really get to experience other kids without constant pressures and supervision of parents. The TV shows had educational aspects for kids to learn things, but also developed storylines where kids had to make complicated decisions with little to no adult input. There were lots of kids adventure shows, and there were the after school specials that dealt with heavy topics like peer pressure, drug use, teenage pregnancy and even sexual assault. The 1980s saw a different direction with TV show geared towards toy sales and violence with little educational aspects. Also, it was the beginning of more and more adult supervision beginning with baby-on-board signs and a switch to children being portrayed as cute rather than troublemakers. The hippies turned yuppies started to move into parenting mode and pretty soon childhood independence was replaced by rides in the mini-van to soccer practice and after-school tutors.
I didn't read this whole comment at all but it sounded good so I gave it a thumbs up
We played outside most days all day long. We played Mother May I, Red Light Green Light, street football, street long hide and seek at dusk and rock wars.
Kaleidoscope was a drug trip in a tube!
Evel Knievel was HUGE in the 70's.
I was born in the 70’s and remember so many of these because they were also popular into the 80’s. To the dude on the right, I agree that the 70’s and 80’s were a really creative period and really fun if you were a young person. But I always marvel at someone who was born in 1880 or around that time period. Someone born then and who lived let’s say 70 years would’ve gone from reading by candlelight and traveling by horse and buggy to driving cars, flying in airplanes, watching movies and then television, seeing the atom bomb dropped. The entire world became electrified and mechanized within the span of one human life. The entire 20th century is one of the most transformative time periods ever known. The way people lived just completely and fundamentally changed.
I had Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots, in Mid 70’s when they first came out, GI Joe’s. Hoppity Hop, Jarts, and that Vibrating metal football game.
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots would be a good non board game for the group to play. There still groups that have conventions and meetings for the Tudor Games NFL Electric Football.
66 yrs young, still have my super spirograph with an envelope full of drawings I did, signed & dated 1969. 12 yrs old. way cool.
My children grew up with one I bought them. They were born in the 1980's.
Trouble, Operation, Mystery Date, Barrel of Monkeys, Battleship and card games were in heavy rotation at our house, but I was more into listening to the great record albums that seemed to be released weekly.
I was born in 62 so I remember all these for sure. My fave toy from then was Spiralgraph and the Etch A Sketch.
Battleship.
Clue.
Game of Life.
1970's Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.
Calidoscopes will definitely show you the colors!
By the 70s, my toy days were coming to an end, but some 60s toys carried over, like Lite-Brite, Barbie, and Lego. some of the toys I had in the 60s included an Easy Bake Oven, Etch-A-Sketch, and the View Master, a gadget you could look at 3D cartoon clips. It was like having your own portable movie theater! There was also a game for girls called "Mystery Date". The original tv ad for it was quite catchy!
The 70s were so much fun. People think we were missing out because we didn't have the technology but we weren't missing out on anything! We were better off--we played outside, we olayed board games together (as opposed to having your face in your phone or other devices all the time). We hung out with groups of friends and played together. It was a much simpler, more family oriented time. Families were closer knit and we had fun!
I was born in 1970 and remember all these toys. If I didn't have it, my brother & sister did. My cousins had the hand-held electric games. Generation X rocks 🤘
I loved the Little People dolls. Yes, I had a set in the 80's. Now you can get special ones themed off of TV shows and movies...Golden Girls, Mickey and Friends, Harry Potter, Friends, Batman, various Disney movies...a collector's dream.
In my opinion, the 70s was the best time to be a kid. I had the slinky, Operation game, Rock Em, Sock Em Robots, Hot Wheels, A Six Million Dollar Man action figure, Evil Knievel action figure and car, Talking ViewMaster, and many board games popular at the time. My sister had an easy bake oven that use to bake the cakes via light bulb! I also had the Starsky And Hutch board game. Also had that Bionic Woman Game, that was one of my favorite shows.
The Easy Bake also had 10 year old cake mixes. Put a 100 watt bulb in there and you had the Easy Bake Microwave :)
I loved my Talking ViewMaster. I thought it was the coolest!
I had a Barbie Beauty Center which was a large Barbie head and you could put make up on her and style her hair. She had a retractable ponytail. I loved that toy!
Pogo stick, hula hoop, rock em sock em robot, electronic football game, pick up sticks, yard darts, cap guns..we had so many different toys and some of them were kinda dangerous..my favorite was a chemistry set that had real chemicals..
My favorite toy in the 70's was my bong!!!😅
I had so many great toys in the 70s. I kept most them in great condition until I moved away from my parent's house when I got my first job out of state. One time when I came home to visit, my Mom informed me that she gave them away to my nephews and a neighbor, who all destroyed them. I was so pissed. I would have kept them all to this day if she hadn't and they would have been worth a lot of money. I had a bunch of Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars. I also had original Star Wars figures & X Wing plane. I had all the Fischer Price little people, Adventure people, lots of the games of that time. I did manage to keep my original Atari & the first Texas Instruments computer from the early 80s.
They have knitting machines at Micheals and Hobby Lobby for adults now. Saw a video yesterday of someone playing Hungry, Hungry Hippo with their dog using dry dogfood. I remember my sister's kids enjoyed riding on the Big wheel tricycle in the 70s. I was in Jr. High - High school in the 70s, so I wasn't into toys. We had games like Connect Four and Aggravation, that I played with my family.
My family didn't have much money, so my siblings and I would get most of our toys from the Thrift store. But for birthdays and Christmas we would get whole new toys (before at Thrift Shops a game would also miss pieces). Anyway, I once got an EZBake Oven (loved it!), we got this Monkees hand toy that you'd have to pull a string and you'd get to hear the band members speak, but a toy I've always wanted but could never get was Marvel the Mustang. This toy horse didn't have batteries, all a kid had to do to make the horse "walk" or "gallop" was to jump up and down on the saddle. 🐴
Payday was one of my favorites. Simon would be a fun game to watch you play. We could spend an entire Saturday afternoon trying to get the Evil Kaneval motorcycle to do tricks. It was really fun being a kid back then.
the rubics cube came out in the late 80's. The 70's were amazing. We were so much more free then. Nobody attached to technology, we focused on each other, music, dancing, hanging out in nature....it was the best.
They used to show us show in elementary school on projectors about bus and stranger safety. They were so graphic and horrifying. One of the was about a kid who stuck his head out of the bus window and he was decapitated. I was 6 years old. We were raised to be tough back then and not soft.
Hi guys, love your channel and your input. I woild love to see you play Kerplunk, Sorry, Stratego or even Tripoli. They're all great game night games. Keep being and having fun, its contagious!
I still have my Kodak Ektra 1 camera I got in 1978. It used a flash bar instead of the flash cube.
I had a Battle Star Galactica game called 'Space Alert,' that used the flashing lights like that football game featured in the video.
I also had a lot of those pocket pinball type games
Our family got the Telstar console in the late '70s, which had the 'Pong' game along with a single player 'Jai Alai' hand ball game and the dual paddle hockey game.
Not shown in the video, we had Klackers, G.I. Joes, SSPs, cap guns, cork guns, water guns--I even had a Thompson sub-maching gun style water gun, many kinds of boardgames, and plastic model kits.
So many toys, games and hobby items. I'm sure I've forgotten some.
Always got everything I ever wanted for Christmas except SSP Smash Up Derby. It's funny how you remember the ones that got away. :)
@@jethro1963 Mine was 'Rock'em Sock'em Robots,' and a crane made by any brand. We got most things we asked for, but somehow those escaped me. My dad managed a variety store, and we ended up getting a returned and used SSP 'Smash Up Derby' set. We got quite a few used/damaged toys that way. One way I learned to fix things.
Lite brite!! Oh I loved it! And Spirograph! The cash register was awesome! 😊😊❤
I had a Big Bird game in the 70’s where you had to take sticks from his nest without him toppling over. It was great family fun.
See we didn't stare at our phone all day. We just scared each other with the Jack in the Box clown. I hated that thing.
Pong Was Huge!!!
I had the Evil Knievel doll and motorcycle, but my favorite was the GI Joe doll - different from the GI Joe that came out later
I am 59 Years old and I remember those toys and I remember Family Game nights.
My lab kit I got in the 70’s had a real microscope in it and quite a few semi dangerous chemicals. I loved it.
I totally loved the Hippity Hop.
Lite Bright is my favorite - Game of Life so fun - Frisbees were always a great time.
I'd like to see you guys play Operation, Payday, Monopoly, Risk, Trouble, Sorry, Chutes and Ladders!
My town has a water war. Which is just the whole town doing a water gun fight. Small-town fun. LOL
Sock 'em Boppers came out in the 70's. They were inflatable boxing gloves, but blown up to be twice as large. You could smack each other with them and it wouldn't hurt..haha, good fun, until someone actually got hurt!
Wow! I remember about 95% of those toys, and played with most of them. I also remember playing with waffle stompers. Probably a parent’s nightmare today, but they were fun to walk on!
I don't know if it's a 60's or 70's game, but I recommend the game Sorry!. Before you play it I also suggest you watch Carol Burnett, Eunice and family playing the game of Sorry!. Oh, my favorite 70's toy was a "Johnny Lightning" race car set.
A lot of the electronic games of the 70's were offshoots of high-tech devices used in aerospace and government, issued to the public once it became obsolete for their use. There were items such as wireless phones and computers not yet released for public use.
The very last thing they showed was an Electronic Baseball. We still have that. Our kids loved playing with it. An electronic handheld game.
careers was another fun board game in the same kind of theme as payday..i think clue may have first come out in the 70's and of course rock em sock em robots
Hey!:) Paul here. I remember the 70s well and I enjoyed reliving those memories. As always, another enjoyable video with intelligent discussions. You guys are a good (and an enjoyable) bunch. If you're ever in Maine, look me up! Saludos.....
You should play Skittle Pool, Lawn Darts, Toss Across 😂 be disappointed just as we were.
Aurora AFX race car set commercials in 1973 opened with the line "Race car driver Peter Revson talks to parents" Within a year the AFX spokesman would be dead in an F1 test session crash. His father and uncle had started the Revlon cosmetics company and "Champagne Peter" as he was known, led a charmed life. Unfortunately his younger brother Doug met the same end as Peter in a race in 1967.
We had board games like, Life, PayDay and Chutes and ladders. I also, had all things Barbie plus every baby doll. Baby that-away. Baby talks and one that eats. Oh yeah, I used the crap out of my Easy bake oven. Lastly, I have very fond memories of my mom and brother a I watching a View Master on a little box screen. Good times!
Greatest marketing ploy ever, putting a 100 watt bulb in the Easy Bake Oven and calling it the Easy Bake Microwave :)
We play Operation shots, Perfection shots is good too. The clothes were horrible then trust me i remember. Imagine the fun or having your bell-bottoms get wound up in the bicycle chain every 5 seconds.
My opinion growing up in the 70s was the best , we would be outside most of the day , our parents didn't know where we were or what we were doing , but we'd better be at home when the street lights came on . I remember all those toys . Our neighborhood games were stick ball , tag and hide & seek. The girls would play stuff like jump rope and jacks and boys cops & robbers or cowboys and Indians.
Monopoly was huge in the 70's
Vietnam war was going on when I was little and the funny thing is I don’t remember seeing anything about it on the news because the TV wasn’t on that much. It was a different time for sure. Kids were very independent. We were mostly raised by hippies who had a hands off approach. It’s amazing so many kids survived.
SIT-n-SPIN and The Bionic Woman from the 70’s Cabbage Patch Dolls and Furby from the 80’s. I was born in 72’.
Great memories! I was born in 1971. You guys don't realize it now, but most of the things you know today will be long gone before too long.
Gotta do unsafe toys of the 60s and 70s. Those were great toys but unsafe. Creepy Crawlers is one I've burnt my fingers as a kid. Love your facial expressions and fascination with this video.
It’s because People were “expanding their minds”, 😂😅😂😅😂
The real lawn dart
I spent hours and hours playing the Mattel football game. I went through so many batteries.
😅Maybe ya guys should check out the tippy psychedelic kids' Saturday morning shows, like Lidsville, H.R. Puff 'n Stuff, Land of the Lost & Sigmon theSea Monster!
i'm millennal gen y i was born in the early 90s i think both 70s, 80s and 90s are the best decades ever in my honest opinion i would say these 3 are my favorite decade era
I got my first Slinky and Frisbee in the 70's.
Battleship was super popular, and Operation was frustrating, but cool. Trouble, was a lot of fun, I'm trying to remember how it worked. It had poppers that you pushed. The Game of Life was a favorite. I was more of a Hot Wheels kid building tracks down the stairs, and racing the cars..
I had Matchbox before I had Hot Wheels. Got a set from sending in Javex labels and a couple dollars. I preferred Matchbox over Hot Wheels because I liked the realistic vehicles over more "cartoony" cars.
@@jethro1963I had some Matchbox cars also, before Hot Wheels came out. Ended up with a wheel case full, though they were pretty beat up at that point.
Some games I had in the 70s Which Witch (my favorite), masterpiece , Mastermind, Trouble, Headache, Sorry and Clue.
If you want to play a fun game for a group play Pit! It is supposed to simulate wall street before it became computerized.
I bought my 8 yr old grandson a Spirograph set for his birthday last year.
When Tonka trucks were made of metal
Yes. Big family game nights. Everyone outside...tons of people DRAGGING MAIN STREET... NEIGHBOR HOOD HIDE AND SEEK. HUGE TOWN WATERBALOON FIGHTS... GREAT REACT GUYS...TOYS EVIL KANEIVAL.,.VERTI BIRD HELICOPTER...
Guys!!! This was soooo great!!! 😊😊😊❤❤❤
I want to watch you guys play "Clue". And "Sorry".
This was great to watch but there are so much more toys from the seventies that were so cool.😀but yes we had to be creative because technology was not there yet so we were always outside making up games with neighborhood friends .
Easy bake ovens & chatty Cathy 😂cap guns & bb guns.
Brought back memories
The game of risk
I forgot I had a Geronimo action figure with horse and lots of accessories.
Those cubes with colors on them they had to match them up that came out in the 60s cuz I remember getting one when I was 11 years old having tonsils out 1962
Game of LIFE
I still remember my little brother called Evil Knievel ' Evil T Evil.
Id like to see yall react to the "dial" type phones from the 60's & before i hear young folks like yourselves wouldnt know how to dial ❤ bless your hearts 😘
We had one as a kid! I assume youre talking about rotary phones? - Joe
Mom smashed my etch a sketch over my head because I wouldn't share it.
Born in 1961. Statisically, there were actually more drugs being used in the '70s than the '60s. The decades of post-war prosperity were the '50s & '60s. The '70s was plagued with double-digit inflation & unemployment, two gas/oil crises. Urban decay, massive crime, etc. But alas, there was still tons of creativity & innovation during that period.
Back in the 70’s we had use out imagination because we didn’t have Something doing out thinking for us.
Remember the klackers?
Omg I forgot. Knack klack klack…😂
You should play lawn darts!!!😊😊😊
Play Boggle or Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots!
Operation.🤣😂🤣😂
Hee man , she raa and skeletor
I had a wood burning set
Mousetrap!
Dang.. I always wanted Mousetrap!
@@4tuneagent I always wanted Mousetrap! too. Did you know there was a game involved with it, who cares, I just wanted to build the mousetrap. :)
Wooly Willy 😳
I had a banana skate board .
I am lucky to have born in the last to weeks of 1967 ✌ ❤😊
Oh. By the Way.... We certainly NEVER got Our Toys at WAL- MART👎🫣...WE Got our Toys at TEMPO...ALCO...GIBSONS...TG&Y..........OTASCO... K-MART... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.....5 AND DIME... LIFE KICKED TAIL ..And Yes. Several of us QUIT Drinking before we were Seniors in Highschool...
You want1970's drug inspired shows? Try something from the minds of Sid & Marty Kroft:
* H.R. Puf N Stuf
* Sigmund & The Sea Monsters
* Banana Splits
The Hudson Brothers were cool. I just went and looked up a video about Chucky Margolis, it still cracked me up "Hey Margolis, whaddya want high school kid"
The 70s were not prosperous, lol. Prices on meat went so high that Nixon actually instituted a price freeze -- very uncommon here. I remember they sold meat extender, soy I think that you mixed with meat to create more. Interest rates went to 17% and wages stagnated and there was high unemployment. American cars were just horrible in design, workmanship, reliability. And of course there were the oil embargoes and gas lines. I remember having to get up at 5 am to get to the gas station in time to sit in line after making sure it was your day to get some. Watergate rocked the country, Ford pissed everyone off with that pardon (the right move but people felt cheated) and Carter, who was a decent man, was a micromanager. People felt defeated under him (the "malaise" you hear about). The hostage crisis was just the icing on the cake. Wow, I wrote book. Just suffice to say the "sagging 70s" were not prosperous. Oh, and I didn't even mention disco! Great as always guys, keep them coming.
Exactly! Was talking to my 57 year old son about what a mess the 70’s was - yikes!
My dad did a lot of deer hunting in the 70’s because beef was so expensive and bullets were not.
I kinda like my Liberty train, commemorating the Bicentennial OF the USA