Same Capt. Crunch taste, different shape: Freakies. With singing cartoon monsters as spokespeople:
Also along the lines of “food” (they made such crap then): Tab Ginger Ale, Root Beer & Black Cherry.
Kool-Aid knock-off: Funny Face drink mixes in the following flavors:[ul][li]Captain Black Cherry [/li][li]Choo Choo Cherry [/li][li]Freckle Face Strawberry [/li][li]Goofy Grape [/li][li]Jolly Olly Orange [/li][li]Lefty Lemonade [/li][li]Loud Mouth Punch [/li][li]Pistol Pink Lemonade [/li][li]Rah Rah Rootbeer [/li][li]Rootin’ Tootin’ Raspberry [/li][li]Rudy Tutti Frutti [/li][li]With It Watermelon[/ul][/li]Vegetable flavored frozen french fries, something along the lines of I Don’t Like Peas flavored Fries.
Zots: Hard grape, orange and berry sucker candies with battery acid centers
The dancing Fig Newton man. Oooey Gooey Rich & Chewy inside. Golden, flakey, tender bakey outside…
Non-foods - The 1st 3 things off the top of my head:
Making tennis ball launching cannons out of 4 steel beer cans, tape and gasoline
That other early arcade game, the one where two guys stand on either side of the screen and try to shoot each other while a stagecoach travels up and down the screen.
Gas at 55 cents a gallon (that’s about the time I actually started paying attention to the price)
Actually, now that I think about it, there was Simon and Merlin, though I can’t remember which was which. One had coloured lights that would blink in some (seemingly) random pattern and you had to remember it and repeat it. The other was smaller, red, and had a keypad that looked kind of like a cross between a tic-tac-toe board and the numbers on a push button phone.
I THINK the latter was Merlin and that it had a couple choices of games one of them was a memory game like Simon.
Simon kinda looked like a UFO, right?
And, oooo! I can still get Lite Brite? Cool!
picks up coat, starts to head to Toys-R-Us, realizes that there are only two days of Christmas shopping left, abandons the idea to avoid the insanity
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*Originally posted by t-keela *
**How about a real muscle car, a leisure suit or bell-bottoms, the newest Led Zeppelin album on 8-track, a $10 lid, a $4 case beer and a drive-in movie?
Yeah, but only two people in the car and around 15 crammed into the trunk!
My cousin had a Baby Come Back doll that walked 10 steps away, then back to you. Only 2 D-cell batteries required!
How bout the Electronic Talking Robot? He was cool…
and now thinking about my 80’s toys… Photon! (as opposed to Laser Tag)
FD
Anybody remember a soft drink called “Help”? It came in various fruit flavors.
They used to run these commercials where a person, the obvious vicitm of a robbery, would wiggle to the phone, knock the receiver off and shout, “I need Help!” in to the phone. The phone operator would then reply, “What flavor, please?”
I had something like that (huge mistake for my parent to et me a doll for Christmas. I was a tomboy and hated all things “baby” – still do. I’ll never have kids.)
I had Baby Thataway, that could crawl with two D batteries in her butt (er, that really didn’t quite come out right), and they also made the mistake of getting me some version that “toddled” on two feet - maybe it was Baby Come Back. I don’t remember it coming back, just walking a few steps then falling over.
I also vaguely recall comercials for some doll that ate and pooped named Baby Alive.
The two I had got wrecked because I hated them. Used all their clothes on stuffed animals (I liked stuffed animals, not “babies”)
Not only can you still get Lite Brite, you can now get Lite Brite Cube, which is like Lite Brite, but with 4 screens instead of one. And, you can get “speed pegs” or some such (don’t remember what they’re called), which are like 4 or 5 lite brite pegs joined together, so instead of having to plug in so many pegs that are only going in a straight line, you can just use one of the speed pegs. But, yeah, I definitely would wait until after Christmas.
