Coleco baseball, or other crazy stuff of yours at your parents' house

That game was brutal, but those lines are classic!!

 

Spnited, Buck: That's the game. My Bas-ket box cover looked exactly like Spnited's.

I also had an Aurora HO auto racing set that was awesome.

 

If you had one of these, we could do some business.

 

Wow, is that phallic.

 

I know it's not quite the same, but a note to anyone with a Nintendo Wii: They're offering Commodore 64 games on the Virtual Console now.

Also, was anyone into APBA baseball? It was a dice/card game. Each player had a card, you rolled the dice and whatever came up (like 3-4, 4-5 or 6-6), the player card had a number (like 2, 3 or 4). Then you went to these big cardboard charts to tell you what happened. There was a different one for every situation.
My dad and I used to play the hell out of that game. He had the 1980 card set. We drafted two 25-man teams, eventually added a 10-man minor league squad, and played a whole season. We even combined a game board and pieces from another baseball game so we had a field and players to follow around while we played. We played a whole season one summer.
Good times.

 

That's so true -- I saved a lot of the crap I had when I was a kid (including the Matchbox car collection), but wish more of it had been saved. My mom (without asking) got rid of all of my Star Wars and G.I. Joe toys at one point. She still winces when I mention how much that stuff would be worth on eBay now.

I also wish I still had the Speak 'n' Spell. Though this emulator is pretty cool:

http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/

 

My dad still has an electric football game or, more accurately, he did until the last time I visited him

 

It'll be like baseball cards. If the next generation learns its lesson and holds on to all this stuff, it won't be valuable anymore.

The reason it's valuable now is because nobody thought to save it.

 

I think my parents also still have my Merlin, my Speak 'n' Spell, my Speak 'n' Math, and this:

 

Anyone remember Mattel Talking Football?

 

My old man and I painted whole squads for the SEC and NFL. And we did Notre Dame, Nebraska, USC, Penn State and a few other college teams too. God, I loved electric football. Even if you had no earthly clue where the players were going to go. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

 

Put together and eight-team league and played out a season -- the Steelers beat the Buccaneers in the Super Bowl -- and made a "media guide" recap of the year with stats, etc. Still have that.