did anyone else have a childhood like this?

[culnara]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Weekly comic - Beezer, 2000ad
Favourite crisps - Rancheros, Football Crazys
Favourite TV show - Why Don't You, Swap shop
Fav sweets - Splicer, tuti fruti's, Golden cup
Fav drink - Cremola Foam, Foam Cresta ( it's real Frothy Maannnn )
Fav toy - Action Man, Lego, corgi/dinky cars
Fav film - War of the Worlds, It came from outer Space, Night of the Demon
Fav gadget - Binatone console, video player ( so I could watch all the video nasties b4 they were banned )
Fav pastime - Trekking for miles and Miles on our Bikes with my mates, losing track of time only to return home to cold sunday lunches and my parents worrying where the ell I was

[davidthomas27]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Weekly comic - Buster, The Beano, Look-in.
Fav crisps - Monster Munch (Sizzling Bacon flavour).
Fav TV - The A-Team, Thundercats, Danger Mouse, Thunderbirds.
Fav sweets - Milky Way, Animal Bar
Fav drink - Um Bongo.
Fav toy - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Thunderbirds models & Tracy Island.
Fav film - Ghostbusters, Gremlins.
Fav gadget - Kisho tape recorder (later Sega Mega Drive)
Other memories - My mum lifting me up to see the eels in the pie and mash shop.

[branny]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Excellent thread.
Weekly comic - Warlord, Marvel, Look=in, Star wars and usually a DC super hero one.
Fav crisps - Smiths S & V. Also liked Wigwams, horror bags, chipitos.
Fav TV - Six million dollar man
Fav sweets - Arrow bars, hobo chews, double agents
Fav drink - top deck shandy
Fav toy - Action man, Dinky, Corgi
Fav film - Star Wars
Fav gadget - Ferguson record player
Fav pastime - Cinema. Went at least once a week.

Other memories - that could be a whole new thread.

[Paulos]

Weekly comic - spin off from the Beano - Plug and anything like Whizzer & chips
Favourite crisps - Fangs, bats and bones.
Favourite TV show - Swap shop and Tiswas
Fav sweets - Pacers, spangles, banjo (Banjo, Banjo, Banjo is brand new. with a light and crispy wafer and a roast nut flavour too)
Fav drink - Quattro (and I seem to remember my nan making up a powdered orange juice maybe by Birds which in later years I was reminded of when tasting Sunny delight)
Fav toy - of course the big 5 - plasacine, lego, scalectrix, horny and meccano AND my skateboard
Fav film - ET and Grease (due to my sisters influence)
Fav gadget - my binatone walkman (couldn't afford sony)
Fav pastime - playing in the street with my mates, going off for hours without my parents worrying where I was.

Other memories from my childhood.
The invention of Video libraries, and owners who didn't care that they were renting out driller killer and the texas chainsaw massacre to 5 ten year old boys!