How many of you had one of these as a kid or something similar?

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JakDobson@reddit

Anybody still got one they will mail me?

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

I got this on ebay. They're out there. Currently looking for the model I had in 1988. Think I found it.

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prairieaquaria@reddit

Mine was light pink and recording myself on tape was MAGIC. I still have several cassettes that I want to get digitized.

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beatfreak47@reddit

Got mine from KMART. Best birthday gift I ever got. From my late grandma 🥺

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Naw I had an entirely different device. It was black with red buttons.

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Maleficent-Taro-2665@reddit

That looks like the one Soundwave turned into.

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canadianbairn@reddit

Mine was missing the cover to hold the cassette in. So had to put it on its side to play tapes. I had a white one.

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

The one I had before this one was like that. There's actually a picture of me with it in the background from '87. I can't identify what brand it was though.

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yeahcoolcoolbro@reddit

Holy crap. Thank you. I remember Backlighting being so fascinating to me as a kid. Wow that blue lettering! How did they figure that out?

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pub000@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/dqmqfqsi0rkc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63953d4b2f3c040a419bf788726de005b9201696 I had this one in this exact color!

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Yes, this exact one! And then my friends and I would pop in a NKOTB cassette and practice our dance routines that we choreographed ourselves to "Hanging Tough" and "Cover Girl." And then we would perform our terrible dances for our classmates on the playground at recess.

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ILootEverything@reddit

I had the purple one!

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mmcline06@reddit

Saaaammme! Oh how I loved that thing. Santa brought it to me one Christmas, along with a Michael Jackson cassette tape. I was thrilled 😍

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GF_baker_2024@reddit

Yep, I had that one.

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Yzma_Kitt@reddit

I had this one too. I got it at a yard sale for 25 cents. Lol. It came with a broken antenna (I repaired.) And the Barbie dance-r-cise arobics tape in it that I promptly took out and replaced with my Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl tape.

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sleigh_all_day@reddit

Me, too! Peach was my color! 🍑

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NormaRae75@reddit

🙋🏻‍♀️Same probably would still have mine but my Dad took it over when I moved out & brought it to work which was an auto body paint shop. It lasted for a long time but ended beat up & paint splattered. It was a Christmas gift. I also had the alarm clock in purple.

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lsp2005@reddit

This was the exact one I had. I so loved it. Then I got a huge boom box with detachable speakers and a built in CD player.

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lmapidly@reddit

I want that NOW! How pretty.

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lizeee@reddit

Me! I had the white one. I still have it stuffed in a closet somewhere…along with my cassette tapes.

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imadork1970@reddit

Still have one. It's blue.

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Somerset76@reddit

Mine was pink

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drrmimi@reddit

Spent many wonderful hours with mine!

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SadditySweety@reddit

Mine was pink. LOL!

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

My sister had a similar lavender one, I think it was this https://preview.redd.it/pakyi64watkc1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b048390db6fb1c2652d04b0f6e4b637310ca2eb

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MartialBob@reddit

My sister had the pink one.

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kayla622@reddit

I didn't have Color Tunes, but I had one similar. I found the one I had on Ebay:  https://preview.redd.it/4zntaf3knrkc1.png?width=586&format=png&auto=webp&s=56e6318a137c3604152d40d20e70e9d288ce3236

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

Ooh that might be the one I had before the one I have pictured! I had it in black though.

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LittleLarryY@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/h8g3nhaayskc1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d5252c43bd52ea8587ff23a25c9def13d7e8ea2 I had this guy. Recorded so much stuff from the radio. We also recorded “skits” on ours. Lol.

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

I used to make my own radio shows, skits etc. I still have the tapes!

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Lundgren_pup@reddit

Can practically hear the "She Bob" blasting from here.

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Secret_Paper2639@reddit

She Bop. LOL

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Lundgren_pup@reddit

Bop bop boo wib bop?

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lambsambwich@reddit

soundesign

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

This was our kitchen radio, mom always had it on while she was doing dishes or cooking. After dinner we would all linger in the kitchen listening to the radio.

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

I took mine on a lot of outdoor adventures, and I listened to it on the swing set. I used to set it on the slide and then swing, and the vibrations from me swinging would knock it off the slide into the ground. That's why they didn't last lol

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

I love hearing other people’s memories about the very generation specific things we did and things we had. It HAD to be one of the metal ass burning slides that we all survived that yours slid down lol.

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

Yup it was and the swingset wirh the weak ass anchoring system so the legs were always coming up and slamming down

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

Ahhh the sweet sound of summer *clank swoosh clank swoosh clank*

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DE4DHE4D81@reddit

What about the pocket rocker?

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Lyonors@reddit

I had the teal one. I think it’s still in my father’s workshop

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aenflex@reddit

Yep I had one. It was white. I LOVED it.

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elMurpherino@reddit

I had a few. The one that got the most use tho was an Aiwa that had a cd player on top and tape player in front and was kinda shaped like a slightly flattened rugby ball.

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

I didn't get a cd player till 1998

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elMurpherino@reddit

I got my Aiwa book box one in 93 or 94 with the nirvana in utero and Pearl Jam vs cds for Christmas. Man those got so much use.

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Skyblacker@reddit

I had to a Sony radio that kinda looked like that, in light blue. Used it while showering.

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FunyunCream@reddit

Great sub thanks for making it - the retirement question was of a different vibe and not as fun, more upsetting. I’m out but I love you

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Scallion-External@reddit

You’ve got to have dual cassette decks so you can make the mix tapes brah

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ecksman313@reddit

I didn't have that specific one, but my first stereo system was from that company, Soundesign.

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flowerodell@reddit

Very similar. Got one like this in light pink when I was 7 and thought it was the shit.

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Anonymous_person13@reddit

Had a similar one in yellow.

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Myrtle_Snow_@reddit

Always wanted one but as my dad managed a stereo store, we always had pretty hardcore equipment. I had one of those giant boomboxes that took up the whole top of my dresser before I was out of elementary school.

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doobette@reddit

Mine was a brand called Lennox Sound and it was lavender.

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ajr1775@reddit

These were hot as Xmas presents in ‘86

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

I got it as a Christmas present in '87 I believe

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ajr1775@reddit

Think mine was a Magnovox, ordered out of the Sears or JC Penny’s catalog lol

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GForce1975@reddit

Gotta have the dual tape deck to copy tapes...and the big speakers so you could carry it sideways on your shoulder and jam out.

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surfingbiscuits@reddit

We had the dual tape deck *and* a builtin mic. When Beatles Anthology Vol. 1 dropped, we recorded my brother singing *Eleanor Rigby* over the strings-only track. He was and is a very monotone singer, so it was absolutely hilarious.

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spidereater@reddit

This is the parkette blaster. The little brother to the Ghetto blaster.

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moleculariant@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/s8a9o0209rkc1.png?width=1076&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=152613741c3bf6aeea346de9c04a4447671a431d Here's the one I had. I can hear Bon Jovi when I look at this photo 😜

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Big53Papa@reddit

I had the exact same one

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Echterspieler@reddit (OP)

I had two of these. They didn't last long with 6-7 year old me

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chubbuck35@reddit

Oh yes. Mine had rounded speakers. I would listen to FM Radio waiting for my song to be played and rush over and hit record to capture it.

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nevmo75@reddit

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DDrewit@reddit

My sister had that one in white. I just visited my parent’s place for the first time in 15 years, and my mom has it on top of the fridge and still uses it!

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