Did You Have This Toy?

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Swee_Potato_Pilot@reddit

I loved mine. I made a "car" in my closet, closed the door and pretended I was driving to Toys R US lol.

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CloudlessEchoes@reddit

Its sitting on my dresser right now!

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Mental_Scarcity_4345@reddit

I totally did both me and my brother had one. We loved playing and pretending we were racing each other. Trash talk and all! Ahhh those were THE DAYS!!

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I had it & thought it sucked. Honestly I didn't like alot of the gadgets/toys of that era: speak & spell, view master, Teddy ruxpin (talking mickey mouse variant), space invaders & football portable videogames, tiger electronics, etch a sketch, digital etch a sketch. I did however like Gi-Joe, Transformers, He-Man, Voltron. And I collected Garbage Pail Kids but thought they were gross. And sports cards even though I didn't care about sports. Cross-Fire was awesome. Hungry-Hungry Hippos was meh. Casio PT-1 mini keyboard was OK. Commodore 64 was OK. NES was awesome. Gameboy, I was obsessed.

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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

Wish I’d kept all of my Garbage Pail Kids Cards.

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Muted_Month83@reddit

Yep

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Dirac_comb@reddit

I did. And my parents had a pull out chair that I could fold onto itself, so in my 4 year old head it looked exactly like a car. I'd sit there with this wheel for hours and hours. Core memory.

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TheOldestMillenial1@reddit

Spent many hours playing with this thinking I was learning how to drive

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CjKing2k@reddit

Going full speed, dodging cars, and not using turn signals? I think that's how a lot of us learned how to drive.

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gianjOe1@reddit

Maybe. Hard to say if I really had it or i made it up in mind.

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XCIXproblems@reddit

Yes I did.

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scoff-law@reddit

Yes. And any other dashboard like toy. Then we would pick up free broken electronics and appliances at the dump swap shed and I'd take them apart and nail all the switches and knobs and such to wooden planks, which I think used to build fort cockpits in the woods. Now I manifest that childhood joy with guitar effect pedal boards and by building mechanical keyboards. And by driving my car, zoom zoom.

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jgnp@reddit

Covet. That’s the word.

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Antricluc@reddit

Ive been looking for one so I can put a raspberry pi and put all racing games like this guy did. https://preview.redd.it/wasqv8ljhkmf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2909d0a986c8562abc625d04c01c51e46401ff9

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MLDaffy@reddit

He definitely has Doom on there too.

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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

Wow😮

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Antricluc@reddit

Yuh. Said the same thing. The things some people create and I'm a sucker for stuff like this. My list goes on

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99anan99@reddit

I had this toy

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MasticatedDorks@reddit

I wanted it, but I never had one

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Infinite_Blueberry30@reddit

I was obsessed with that. I remember it being at my grandparents place - was probably my brothers before me

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101violations@reddit

Same. Obsessed is the only way to describe it. And it had a weird batteryish smell when it was on for a long time. I lived for that smell.

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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

Spent eons going nowhere. Good times.

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newsflashjackass@reddit

https://incoherency.co.uk/nightdrive/

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BongwaterJoe1983@reddit

The best times

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Just_call_me_Face@reddit

That's where we all learned how to drive

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Conspicuously_Human@reddit

This is what I came here to say too! I love road trips. When I'm driving at nite, I get flashbacks of playing this game and it always gives me good feels. I think the white lines on the road directly ahead of me are what does it

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TwoDudesAtPPC@reddit

I have it right now

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Eclectic_Paradox@reddit

Yep!

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boggstown@reddit

I learned how to drive on this

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pragmaticSavvy@reddit

Fuckin A

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acesavvy-@reddit

Probably about 5 or 6 years before Frogger came out. My babysitter had one in her basement I think. Hella fun for passing the time

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Evan_802Vines@reddit

Loads of rich kids here

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Itchy_Tiger_8774@reddit

No, I did not.

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RoastQueefSandwiches@reddit

Better than a lot of Atari games at the time

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maryvandereen@reddit

Hi

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Whogotthebutton@reddit

Memory unlocked… Wow!!

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stratusmonkey@reddit

I played mine so much it wore out, and someone in my family got me a replacement!

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throwawayhbgtop81@reddit

I did! I wonder whatever happened to it

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tipseymcstagger@reddit

Woah. Totally forgotten until now! My grandma bought one of these for me at a yard sale 🤣

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Competition-Dapper@reddit

It was a bucket list toy, I was too poor…I had some cool shit, but not this, I saw them at the store or on tv and knew about them but never got to play with one

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IowaJammer@reddit

No, we were poor. My rich cousin with cable had one though and he'd let me watch him play with it.

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HollowDam@reddit

When I got my tonsils/adenoids out I stayed overnight at the hospital. They let us take one toy back to our room and this was my choice.

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roberrrrrrt@reddit

Something similar

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kokomofo82@reddit

Put it at the end of the couch and played road trip.

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claytonjr@reddit

I had this toy. Except it was a black and white cop car.

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ExternalSignal2770@reddit

i did not…remember having this toy until just now holy shit

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ssbsts1@reddit

Yea me too. Ripped it out of some deep corner of my brain lol

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davesmissingfingers@reddit

Me neither.

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Mudassar40@reddit

A friend did.

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cbih@reddit

Yesss

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CIarkNova@reddit

I have it now… https://preview.redd.it/5z7iou18zkmf1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c8e5b483e0a4ffdbd3b422b90e8954e7e592762 Seriously, riding this thing, feels like that, almost. So much fun.

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BlueProcess@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/nxyr1i4d6mmf1.jpeg?width=413&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5821195bfd6eceac4e793086d8816a49c19ab06d

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Le_Sadie@reddit

And now my kid has this 😂 https://preview.redd.it/13f3gxkj5mmf1.jpeg?width=1122&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ea3028fe707f183cdbae0d6cbce76753543a2ac

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BlueProcess@reddit

Yes, and it was _awesome!_

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Ohbilly902@reddit

I wanted it !

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0sqs@reddit

My cousin had this. I played it all the time at their house.

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Tamahaganeee@reddit

I did .... it sucked. Never played it for long

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scrotanimus@reddit

Holy cow. I thought I was the only one. I got it from some distantly related relatives on Christmas.

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ManBearWarPig@reddit

Hours of entertainment for my young mind

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Moquai82@reddit

yes, i can still hear it in my mind.

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gimmeslack12@reddit

Yup!

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ChiefBroady@reddit

No, but my younger brother had it. They always got the cooler shot.

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Josejacobuk@reddit

Indeed I did

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Chowlucci@reddit

they definitely had a motorcycle version, I cant remember the brand

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RegularCommonSense@reddit

Memory unlocked, lol. I remember using it somewhere, but don’t know if I had one.

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hamburgler26@reddit

No but my kid has something similar but Paw Patrol branded.

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azianrice82@reddit

Nah, was poor, but played at my friend's house tho.

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rockadoodoo01@reddit

I had a Jimmy Jet, which was the same only it was a jet.

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Soft-Spotty@reddit

I think I have the high3st score

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Independent-Win9088@reddit

I loved it! It ignited my passion for cars at a young age. That, and my Barbie remote-controlled corvette

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LikeToKnow84@reddit

Looks like Digital Derby writ large.

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TheWhooooBuddies@reddit

Equal parts “this is amazing!” to equal part “this kind of sucks”

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Gorkymalorki@reddit

I had one at my mom's house. When I was little my brothers and I would fly to her house every summer and the first thing I did was play with that when I got to her house.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

No, I had these little guys https://preview.redd.it/iwnxqo4w3kmf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61c4edd0f8554576cedee503abb65017ecdd6b11

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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

Tiger was my Jam! I had the Ninja Turtles.

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Mike9797@reddit

We were literally just talking about Tiger Handhelds a few mins ago. Mind you it’s cuz we were talking about getting a rice cooker but my buddy was like “that Tiger”?! Then we got into the discussion about what was the best one when we realized they are all trash but we have love for them cuz we played the shit out of them back in the day. I had the Double Dragon and Street Fighter ones.

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

I never had an interest in them mostly because I always found the displays incredibly hard to see even as an 8 year old. Most of the games it was hard to understand how to play, the buttons felt like you had to mash em really hard to make it work, and we had an Atari at home. My old man had one since before I was born and I learned on Pole Position and QBert and Berserk. When he had quarters to burn he’d take me to the arcade and hold me up to the machines so I could reach to play. By the time these handheld games were popular in like 2nd and 3rd grade, we had a Nintendo. By like 4th or 5th grade we had a game boy. I always felt like These really sucked in comparison.

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spsanderson@reddit

My neighbor did we played all the time

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No-Freedom-At-All@reddit

Yes.

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Spare_Confidence1727@reddit

Yep and the fighter jet version too

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mclargehuuge@reddit

I wanted it every year the jc penney’s/sears catalogue came. However, my parents lack of education and ability to earn money prevented me from getting it.

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ejwestcott@reddit

Yes

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Ordinary_Aioli_7602@reddit

Loved this thing!

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kwecl2@reddit

So many roads trips in my mind

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legsjohnson@reddit

I had a v similar one that was an airplane.

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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

Just when I think this couldn't possibly invoke another long buried memory...

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Elethuir@reddit

Yes it was fun boy were things more easy to entertain us with back then lol

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bigfrondnicky@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/nalobldchkmf1.jpeg?width=2250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17bc04dc711e2929454a4053c35c6e00bc9f0c27 Just recently discovered this picture of me as a kid. Probably why I’m such a good driver 🤪

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torb@reddit

Now, make something like this and make it possible to slip an iPad or telephone into it, and you'd have a... quite shitty gaming setup.

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torb@reddit

I think I remember there being a possibility to pop the headlights?

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schoolisuncool@reddit

My little cousin did and I loved to play with it when I visited!

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BernardMatthewsNorf@reddit

Didn't have it but friends did and I was obsessed.

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Svenderhof@reddit

Definitely. And it was always the helm when I turned one of our beds into a spaceship. Plastic cash register, speak & spell, and anything else I could get my hands on with buttons were other controls on the ship.

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