A pinball machine. And I would have an arcade air hockey table if only I had the room for it.
That’s the one. Mine was from Target, but same machine.
I won’t deny this claim… Robotron, imho, is the best all-around single-player game of all the Classic Age arcade machines.
As a kid, I always wanted to travel. Now my wife and I have been to all 50 states and all 10 provinces of Canada.
Well I always wanted to do nothing all day and not worry about bed times or alarm clocks. Thanks to the recent economical situation I have what I wanted. 
You know all of those useless toys your parents wont buy you when you’re little, 'cause you’ll just lose them? Staring down from me on my shelf are plastic versions of Iron Man, Phillip J Fry, Obi wan Kenobi, several roaring dragons, a wax candle shaped like a monster hand holding an eyeball, and two stuffed hedgehogs, perpetually fucking eachother.
Worthless crap is goooooood!
A home theater. When I was a kid I’d read about movie moguls and big movie stars having screening parties in their homes and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I dreamed of having a big screen and the ability to watch all my favorite movies any time I wanted.
Now we have a ceiling-mounted projector, a 4’x7’ screen, a kick-ass sound system, and about 1500 DVDs, including all my favorites except for those few that haven’t been released on DVD yet, and hardly ever take advantage of it, because we go to the theater so much. But there again…
…the ability to go to the theater any time I want, because when I was a kid it was a rare and wonderful thing.
I have the BIG box of crayons, and also a BIG box of colored pencils. And a large collection of colored Sharpies.
I had an active Sea Monkey tank for a while. And every time I pass a vending machine with something small and stupid and utterly irresistible, I don’t make the slightest effort to resist the urge to put in a quarter or two and get me a little carabiner or other gimcrack item.
But what I have now and what I really really wanted as a kid is a computer with a lot of games for it. I was an adult when Pac Man came out, though just barely, and I’m sure that I would have wanted my own arcade video game if I’d been a little younger. Now I own three consoles, and am thinking about getting a fourth. Now, of course, my problem is that I don’t have enough free time to play all my games.
We were quite poor, and I loved candies. We very rarely had any, I mean like at Christmas and Easter-- if we were lucky. I remember fantasizing about having a big bowl of candies on a coffee table in my living room.
Over the years, my son’s friends, neighbour’s children, my husband’s children from a previous marriage, his grandchildren, our nieces and nephews have all known that candy was available in quantity for the taking at my place. I rarely eat candy nowadays, but whenever I look at that bowl, I’m a contented child again.
An erector set.
And I’ve got the plans for a MAME arcade emulator so one of these days I’ll have all my old favorites available whenever I want.
Do you remember the house in Fond du Lac that John Hollister built? I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I’d ever seen and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it and clean it. And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it.
Now I built a house just like it, here, by the ocean. I think if I saw the house it was modeled after, though, it would make me sick.
When I was a kid I wanted a cat so badly but my mother always said no. She said I could get one when I grew up and moved out. So now I have four kitties. I also have many lego sets. You know, for when my nephew visits. The fact that I bought them before he was even born is totally irrelevant.
And I just ate the head off of a chocolate Easter bunny when it’s not even Easter yet!
Sometimes I like being a grown up.
Ditto, brother. Thanks to the economy. <clink> Cheers!
All my life I have abhored alarm clocks. Now I have the freedom to sleep as much as I want.
And the dreams that come with that luxury. A hell all it’s own.
You drank THAT milkshake! Good one!
When I had just bought my first house, I called my mom to announce something. I got the answering machine, so I said “Hey mom, it’s me. I’m just calling to let you know I have all the lights on in the house, and I have the front door open heating up the whole outside. Call me!”
She never called back about that, and so I called her again a week or two later. However, somehow I’d transposed two digits of her phone number when I programmed it into my new phone. So when I pressed the Mom speed dial, some woman answered and said “oh yea, you got a wrong number. But we thought your message was hilarious! Thanks!”
As for an actual item I’ve always wanted, a Force Feedback Lightsaber. I’ve always wanted a light saber since I was a kid. I still can’t cut up people with it, but a guy can dream right?
Ohhh and I can have ice cream and beer for breakfast if I want! And I do!
A cat. I always wanted one as a child but was never allowed one (other animals were allowed - just no cats). I got one as soon as I moved out permanently and she’s the best pet ever. 
I own every Nintendo console model ever released, except for the Virtual Boy.
Funnily enough, I don’t play much, I just like knowing that if I want, I can.
Not goofy but the only thing I can think of (apart from expensive ice cream) - a piano. I always wanted to learn as a child but wasn’t allowed to for several reasons, not the least of which was the fact that my family didn’t own an instrument on which I could practise. Now I do and it brings me joy every day.
Please note that wrist rocket bands deteriorate over time, decade-old ones snapping with a high probability. Happened to me once - glad my anchor point was low and the 120 mph bit of rubber just grazed my cheek. Felt like someone had swiped a red-hot coal over the skin.