I remember vaguely remember Capsela. That was the shit my friends' older siblings had. My generation had Construx.

Build spaceship.

>>22
Oh man, nostalgia bomb! I remember when my mom bought a huge box of capsela parts home with her from a rummage sale she worked at (maybe $20? I got lots of great used building toys that way as a kid including robotix). There must have been parts from a half-dozen individual sets. It was an incredibly underrated building and engineering toy. I think it's largely forgotten now because it's not too visually appealing in the way that lego or kinex kits can be. I remember building enormous, propeller driven oil rigs and setting them loose in the nearby lake. It teaches kids great lessons in the physics of energy transfer, gear reduction, buoyancy, electrical polarity...

Almost like LEGO - but not quite - were Tyco Superblocks. The Mega Bloks of their day, Tyco Superblocks were compatible with LEGO. A standard full-height brick was the same thing, but where LEGO bricks are only divided into thirds, vertically, to derive thinner bricks, Tyco had half-bricks too. A 1/2 high Tyco brick on a LEGO baseplate is the same height as two 1/3 high LEGO bricks. Brick-hack.

Interesting facts.
Tyco was bought by Mattel in '97. Mega Bloks is a current Mattel product.
In '92, Tyco Toys bought Matchbox Cars. Mattel now owns Hot Wheels AND Matchbox.

Yeah I had some non LEGO build toys
>Kinex
>Magnetix
>etc etc

I visit this board now-and-then. Out of all the other 99chan boards, this one seems most up my alley. The TV/games one is also a cool premise.

Games:
I love to emulate all the newold weird games I've never played before. I use an SNES->USB converter and it feels good, man. My main sources to find new things are
http://www.romhacking.net/
http://www.racketboy.com/
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/
The first time I played a game was NES at my cousin's, too, and I could barely comprehend it. I probly only got an NES starting in HS too. In the early 90's when I was like 5, I got a Game Boy and the SMW SNES set and played those casually. Back then I wasn't super into games, it was just a thing we had which I took for granted. Parents got me Super Ghouls n Ghosts at some point, but I couldn't get past the first level, and so when I asked for more games, the response was "But you never play the games you already have!" so I didn't get many games in my earlier years. It wasn't until Pokémon released in 1998, at age 11, that I was fully sucked into the video game machine.

TMNT:
I was never into TMNT as a kid, but it sure was popular. Recently this past year or two I've finally tried out the comic and I can now say I dig it. Also tried out Transformers and I def. see the appeal, would watch more.

LEGO:
With the franchising of LEGO, the company was saved, but at the cost of inspiring creativity more easily.
When I was young I liked LEGO, but never got many because they were too expensive. These past few years I've been buying a couple LEGO now and then. I have the DeLorean, the Architecture Studio, and Metalbeard's pirate ship from the Lego Movie. I want to get the Ghostbusters car, and I have lists of older sets I'd love. My primary want is the Space Shuttle Expedition (10231) which I've wanted since I was young. Out of them all, I think I want a lot of the space sets most. Secondarily, pirate stuff. Egypt is cool conceptually and it would be fun to try to use those pieces to make something awesome.

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Fuck Bionicle.

Space and Castle systems 4 lyf.

>>67

This. Bionicle is bullshit for kids that are obsessed with anime or other ADHS flashing crap.

>>72
Preach it, brother.

Confirmig that Bionicle sucks, is for babies, and isn't even LEGO.

Some of them were okay. Mega Man 2. Had the "wall-grab" move before it ever appeared in any "real" Mega Man game. And the mother-fucking Mecha Dragon, astounding that they were able to fit it in among the rest of the LCD elements.

Also, Mousetrap. Arguably an improvement on the arcade original which was Pac-Man ripoff maze game with the gimmics that you could open and close some doors and save your power pellets... er, dog bones after collecting them and use them whenever you wanted. The LCD version reimagined it as a 3rd person over the shoulder psuedo 3D game. It's like you were right there in the maze with your little mouse buddy!

Admittedly I've never owned any Tiger or Nintendo Game and Watches, only briefly played what my friends had, so there may be some nostalgia goggles involved...

>>13
I didn't, my enemies just happened to be organized and operate in a way similar to either of those groups (or really any of the conspiracy theorists' usual suspects). I didn't actually learn about either until I was about 12 or 13; then I thought I was hot shit because I totally knew about these super secret, super real groups before learning that they actually existed.

My and my neighbor friend used to pretend to be spies all the time, I always asked for all the coolest new spy toys and we would spy on my parents through windows and shit.

>>34
Keep the change, ya' filthy animal. I grew up down the street from the original Home Alone house. Neglectful parents were definitely the norm. Either neglectful, or unbelievably over-involved.

>>34
I still have my talkboy in my attic somewhere.

>>53
I'm down, but bear in mind that many of the things that were cute back then could get us arrested these days.

>>40

in all likely hood the battery inside the game cart failed long ago.

>>47
If he uses it as a coaster for piss bottles maybe, but if it's well cared for then I doubt it. My own Pokémon Red & Blue carts still work flawlessly. Even if his battery is toast, he can probably replace it with some type of watch battery (just as an NES cart battery can be replaced with a CR2032) and start from scratch. Maybe that's not the "closure" he's looking for, but a full run through the game can be more fun that the tedious chore of hunting down all the Pokémon (something he can't do without both carts anyway).

mine was Yellow Version, and then I got Crystal. since then I've tended to only pick up the "3rd version" for any generation of PKMN games due to the chances of encountering any and all PKMN available for that gen in the game.

  >>50
Only the ones that allow you to save your game.

My first pokemon game was the trading card game. I once stole a card someone dropped during a game. I feel the shame till this day...but gotta catch em all right?

This was probably my first lego set. I must have been 5 or 6, don't really remember it that well. In retrospect I realize that I never build this correctly. To bad I gave all my lego stuff away when I was 14 (got minecraft instead now, don't worry about it).

The line of my memory is blurred regarding my first set. I'm pretty sure, in fact, that I received my first LEGO set before my last set of DUPLO. It was, in all probability, one of those generic parts collections that came in a blue tub with a set of instructions and decals for building any number of various "City" LEGO creations. The first set that I actually recall receiving as a gift, however, is Black Falcon's Fortress. To this day, I still find it to be an appealing set, if for no other reason than that it contains a single "castle wall block" of Bavarian architectural style, as opposed to the standard stone-and-mortal style block.

>>37 here again.

I think it's a curiosity worth noting for those who missed out on my generation's LEGOs that the castle's of my era were built, not on a base-plate, but on 1/3-thickness slats. They were hinged and opened along the backside from a 1x2 Technic-style hole-block-and-pin. The great thing about that was that it meant, as you amassed more castles, you could easily connect them to create a massive castle wall set.

Hell no. Nobody wants to be the guy that brings his big LEGO set to a friend's place and then loses one of the pieces. "Bringing LEGOs to a friend's place" consisted of my friends and I bringing a minifig or two to each others houses, just to have the appropriate character to play as.

>Part of life is learning that the shit you spent time on will deteriorate and fall apart if it isn't watched carefully and repaired.

I guess some of us are faster learners than others.

Actually yes. I bought Draida bay because I wanted some of the tiny figures, and I ended up buying Fortaan. my girlfriend and I play it together from time to time.
You can also find solo rules online that turn it into more of a strategic dungeon crawler, though you need to build 2 dice for that.