What was your favorite piece of tech as a kid?

[JLC]

Floppy discs....I remember when those were "high tech"....our first computer was a TI-99/4a....and we used cassette tapes hooked up via a standard cassette tape player. And that was pretty darned exciting!

I LOVED Pong as a kid...and we had some game console a few years later, but I don't remember what it was called. I think it was some knock-off system similar to Atari, but never developed into a household name. Pong brings back fond memories!

My FAVORITE though....was the first hand-held electronic game...a "football" game with tiny red blinking lights and you had to move your blinking light across the field without getting "tackled" by the other lights.

The first affordable (for my poor family) hand-held calculators were pretty fun for us kids, too. It didn't take much to amuse a kid back then!

[Shadera]

I'll never forget the Christmas we got the Atari. My brother and I played Tank for something like three days straight. That one, and Night Driver were favorites.

Anything remote control was fun, too. Though back then, they had a cord from the remote to the car. Come to think of it, the vcr remote had a cord too.

Couple other memorables were betamax, and when we got our Tandy.

[Vypyrz]

-Honda Trail 70 dirt bike.
-Daisy pellet gun.

Our most used piece of tech was actually pretty low tech, spatulas and little plastic beach shovels, that we used to wage our "Biscuit Battles" out in the pasture.

[Brian Fobian]

I gotta say my AMIGA 500 computer

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

This is an awesome thread. I never had an Atari so I went to a neighbors house to play. I did however (you ready for this?) have a Texas Instruments home computer... Eeeek!

I had a bunch of games for it. Many were similar to Atari games. I was on that thing all night growing up in grade school lol!!






After that, my favorite thing was Nintendo, then Super NES. I almost rotted away playing those.

[waltah!]

ha ha that TI is hot! lol