what was your favourite indoor toy/game as a child?

[G1BB0]

my boys asked me this earlier and I told them it was either subbuteo or Howzat, the hours I spent playing them when it was raining in the summer hols or cold winter nights

(scalextric was also in the mix aswell)

What was your favourite/fondest remembered?

 

[kmdmr1]

Evil Knevil,I had the rocket ship but always wanted the bike,Super Striker,

 

[Aztecs27]

Scalextric probably.

I was lucky enough to have a pretty sizeable "play room" as a kid (size of a double garage) and my mates and me set up what must have been the Scalextric track to end all scalextric tracks by combining all of our track pieces.

We used to customise and service our cars too. I had an Alfa Romeo rally car which was awesome. It was 4 wheel drive and stayed glued to the track.

 

[G1BB0]

lucky git

 

[Smiffy]

I had a large, grey moneybox that was my pride and joy, and I used to put all my spare shilling and two shilling pieces in it.
It took me 8 years to realise it was the gas meter

 

[G1BB0]

haha, we had a 50p gas meter a fair few years back smiffy, some bugger robbed it when we were at pontins for a week

 

[pokerjoke]

Cant remember ever being indoors,i was in a football club and a running club from the age of nine and we were always out somewhere.
It wasnt like now,we were out all day.
Some kids these days are in all day playing video games.
I have fond memories of conkering and playing conkers,even thats banned these days.

 

[G1BB0]

varnish or dry them out in the airing cupboard?

 

[haplesshacker]

The 70's Action Man for me as a young boy. I was fascinated by films like the Dambusters, Cockleshell Heroes, 633 Squadron etc.

 

[hangover]

I used to love Lego and monopoly. Still play monopoly sometimes.

 

[Paul_Stewart]

Another Subbuteo fan here. Had the cricket as well as the football. Played it for years until I discovered golf and porn.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Gotta be Meccano, a neighbour gave me a huge suitcase full of the stuff when I was about 10

I was particularly good at making cranes

happy days

Fragger

 

[Jabba]

Scalextric. Every penny of my paper money went on it and I don't regret one pennny of it.

 

[mally]

I had a large, grey moneybox that was my pride and joy, and I used to put all my spare shilling and two shilling pieces in it.
It took me 8 years to realise it was the gas meter

Dont forget the money box on top of the telly, many a weekly pocket money went towards another day of viewing

 

[AuburnWarrior]

Blimey, here goes:

Dinky toy cars
Meccano
Hornby railway - my Dad still has all of my trains and track and my son now loves playing with it all
Scalextric. I love it so much that I bought the new digital stuff.
BigTrak
Star Wars figures
LEGO
The proper Action Man with fuzzy hair and moveable eyes.
He-Man
Radio Controlled cars - namely The Winch
Those toy soldiers that had the square plastic attached to them and masqueraded as Paratroopers.
Speak and Spell
Cap guns
Howzat!
Game of Life

I was a lucky boy!!

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Matchbox cars. Used our 70's style patterned carpet as a road network.

 

[USER1999]

Andrea from next door.

 

[SwingSlow]

Subbuteo
Meccano
Airfix kits - many aircraft - hanging from the ceiling.

 

[SwingSlow]

And forgot - and the occasional Airfix battleship - One of which we blew up by removing the explosives from an Airbomb repeater firework and stuffing them in the hull; before gluing the deck back on and then lighting a fuse down the funnel.

Most satisfactory.

 

[rickg]

Arnold Palmer golf game with a tiny Arnie on a stick, and my Batmobile with the orange flame at the back that went in and out when the wheels turned.