Nothing beats being 9 years old in 1979, and waking up Christmas morning to find a Kenner Star Wars Death Star Playset assembled in your living room left there by Santa Claus.
Nothing immediately comes to mind, but I remember being so poor (figuratively) that we did our christmas shopping at a pawn shop. What I remember getting? A Tandy TRS-80.
"The Big Wheel" was it back in the day. Unfortunately, I came zooming down my driveway one day into the street and did a 180 skid only to then be plowed by a guy on a motorcycle who was speeding through the residential. I could have easily been killed in such a scenario but, besides taking a nice hit on my big wheel and being spinned around, I lived to tell the story. I did get a big crowd afterward around the house, though. I guess that was my fifteen minutes. lol
relates quite closely to mine: in 1994 (when i was 9) my whole family (my parents, 3 brothers, and i) survived a christmas night crash. drunk driver hit us head on at 160km/hr while we were going 80km/hr. i think that translates to 100mpr and 50mph. anyways. we survived. lots of injuries, not to me, but tons to my family (a combined 40 broken bones, and many bruises). huge miracle that we lived.
Another vote for the original NES- got it the first XMas it was out, and was in hog heaven for months.
1977 B.M.X. Products "Mongoose" with Motomag I's. incidentally, if i got one just like it this xmas, i'd be just as stoked (if not more!)
Yeah I got a "vintage", complete Millennium Falcon last year, just like I got when I was 10. It's fun.
Mine would have to be the year I got my atari. I don't remember what year it was but boy I played the hell out of that thing.
A lady I work with just gave me all her Son's StarWars stuff for me to give to my kids. I have an X-wing and Tie fighter, a banta with the guts that open up to hide Luke inside, a droid factory and a Darth Vader Figure case with every figure (and all the accessories, guns etc) except for R2D2.The kids and I have played StarWars a couple times. Good times. Fly your Falcon over and join the fun.
I remember getting my Kuwahara & my brothers getting a bike they could share. It was a pretty expensive bike back in the day, right up there w/GT & above. Kuwahara was the same manufacturer that made the bike Elliot rode in ET. Mine was much much cooler than the ET bike. It was powdercoated white w/almost columbia blue stickers. Those pads on that bike brings floods of memories. The handle bar pad, the "nut" pad, and the handle bar joint pad. Wooo . . .
