What is your favourite retro thing?

Question

What is your fave retro product? 70's 80's or 90's, whatever?

When my brother and I got an Atari (the old cartridge version), our house was king of the estate :) I also remember deelyboppers, cola cubes, BBC micros and that jarring noise they made when loading (our school had TWO of them!), and the test card on telly (where on earth did they get that picture??)

While we are on the subject, does anyone remember the Zegazoid? It was like a poor man's Wham Bar, it was green&black, cost 5p and very very chewy :p I have only met a few people who remember them.....

Oh, to be a kid again lol :)

Gonna have to leave this one to vote, its too close to call! Thanks for all the great answers, it has all come flooding back :)

Answer 1

yeah i agree

Answer 2

What about the Annuals like the Mandy, The Judy, The Bunty, The Victor, Striker, The Beano and the Dandy.

Pogo sticks, stilts, space hoppers, weebles, Rollerblades that had plastic heels and toes, clackers.

Remember the compendium of games that we thought were fantastic and it was a cheap plastic and cardboard.

I had a huge big portable radio that I took to school which I thought was really cool. Stupid when I think of it now. I also had a personal radio and cassette player.

Chocolate bars like The Five Centres and whopper bars.
I remember Spangles and Revels, sherbet with the liquorish straws. There was also Space Dust which crackled in your mouth.

Groups such as ZZ Top, Matchbox, Stray Cats, Wizzard, Mud, Rubettes, Rainbow, Thin Lizzy, Status Quo, ELO, Boney M, Suzi Quatro.

Makes me want to get my record collection down from the loft or start searching for some good CDs.

Answer 3

I know they still sell them now but as a kid i used to LOVE those sherbet Dib Dabs. You know, the ones with orange sherbert on one side of the packet and cherry on the other and the swizzle stick that you would suck to get the sherbert to stick? I also used to like those Nerds sweets. And there was a morning show on tv in the early 80's with a presenter in a car going to all these tv monitors. I cant quite remember what the point of the show was tho but that was so retro!

Answer 4

My Sony Video Recorder was gigantic but everone came to see it and also my Sony Video Camcorder which I used a lot in the late eighties, my shoulder was always sore holding it up..
Stat Trek the best Si Fi ever and The Dukes of Hazard was on ever Saturday. Bring back the seventies....

Answer 5

On BBC TV. Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and of course Little Weed. We didn't have a TV to begin with but on a Friday night I'd go to my Aunt Lizzie's to watch hers and she would send me home with half a dozen chocolate bars, always different but the two that I remember most were Crunchie and one that I can't remember the name of but it was Turkish delight covered in chocolate.

Answer 6

remeber tizwas, the zx spectrum that wouldnt load the games if the volume wasnt just right on the casette player,my 3 speed chopper witch has been re-launched i was told but the gear change is on the handlebars,my wind up evil kneivil bike,that was the best and penny chews, remember u could get 10p bag of sweets and you used to have a load of sweets....

Answer 7

I remember the Bunty magazine,Gonks,Rainbow sherbert in triangular bags,Tiny Tears,Twinkle comics,Plastic rain hats and balaclavas,Bri-nylon dresses,Triffic bars,Pink sugar mice,Crepe paper Christmas decorations,Newts down the drains,Jack stones,Plastic dressing up shoes(that always snapped on the first wear)Sugar sandwiches,Black jacks & mojos,and i can remember when i could buy a 1p mix up & a lucky dip (a surprise wrapped in tissue paper)......Oh how we valued the things we take for granted today...Them were the days!!!

Answer 8

80's music was the best ever.

Flock of Seagulls
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Erasure
Deff Leppard
Devo
The Cars
The B-52s
Van Halen
Motley Crue
YES
Men at Work
The Smiths

The list goes on.

Answer 9

The entire 1970's

Answer 10

gosh yes its all coming back to me i remember the zega bar too do you remember sweet tobacco and old fashioned spangles, lemonade spangles too and what about mint cracknel two rectangular bars it was like green fibreglass covered in chocolate.my favourtite toy was tibby tumbles lol and kerknockers that broke quite a few knuckles till banned my fav object is the bush radio asda and tescos still sell cola cubes

Answer 11

What a great Question!!

Atari, Dial a Disk, ABBA and Pak Man that was great!