The Thing You Wanted So Bad When You Were a Youngster

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

And by it, i am referring to hermaphrodites.

[Joust Williams]

I dunno if I wanted anything REALLY badly. If I did, I would have eventually gotten it

[Brisco Bold]

What's the second thing?

[Joust Williams]

A ball clock. The balls empty out once the arms are full, changing the readout.

[Fe 26]

I wanted a lot of toys. I could spam the thread all day long with that shit. The 80s was the period for awesome unattainable toys. MAXX and Omnibot robots. Ghost buster and GIJoe buildings. Robots, ninjas, dinosaurs, tank, jets, talking ponies, rock stars, you could have just about anything you wanted in toy form. Unless your dad was daddy war-bucks, there was no way you'd ever get all the awesome stuff there was to play with in the 80s.


I was always kind of pissed we never got Duck Tales toys. I always wanted a Gizmo Duck. Same with the toy Johnny Fives. I ended up making my own out of legos.

I also liked looking at the back of the box for my first gen genesis. It was fun to look at all the games and imagine what they might be about. The Sears catalog was also fun for looking at shit I'd probably not get.

[Gohron]

I was pretty spoiled as a kid. I was an only child and my father's serious drug addiction problems didn't manifest until I was around 8 or 9 and ended by the time I was 11 or 12. My parents never had a lot of money, but they'd always buy my some cool stuff. I wasn't hard to please. The things that I wanted and didn't have, usually one of my friends had it, so I'd make use of their toys. One thing I REALLY wanted as a kid (teenager mostly) was a broadband internet connection. I spent years upon years trying to convince my parents to get DSL or cable but I just continued to get owned in Tactical Ops because of my high ping. I finally was able to get broadband in 2004 (or maybe 2005) when I moved in with a friend of mine and his dad finally caved in (his broadband quest was similar to mine).

[Low]

A Turbo Duo. And I snatched up one of those midway through college about 1998-9.

Otherwise as a kid? A black Trans-Am like Knight Rider.

[kedawa]

I really wanted the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier and the big robot that was always in the Sears Wishbook,

[gameoverDude]

A Neo-Geo. I just KNEW there'd never be one under the Christmas tree though, given its $600 price tag and the carts typically going for $250-300. Not that I had even bothered to bring it up, because I imagined my parents gagging at these numbers. PS1 & Saturn did somewhat make up for not having the Neo-Geo.

A CDZ did come along in 1999, and an MVS 1-slot followed a couple years after that. AES is out of the question still, with games like Neo Turf Masters and Metal Slug having appreciated to ridiculous amounts ($1500+) when the MVS counterparts are barely $100.

[Satsuki]

more than anything. I also wanted one of those motorized cars like the Barbie or Jeep one. But mostly the megazord.