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STEVE'S CHILDHOOD TOYS AT HIS NEW JERSEY HOME!
(Random Toys, Intellivision Video Games and Fireball Island)
December 2003
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So while being in New Jersey for Christmas, I spent some time playing in the basement of my childhood home. This is my Fisher Price Service Station and Garage! ;) |
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That's me, playing with a couple of matchbox cars! |
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I remember when my Grandma Grace bought us this globe. I think I was around age 9. |
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LEFT: That's Peppino, the name we gave to this stuffed mouse.
RIGHT: That duck, made out of two seashells, has been down in that basement for as long as I can remember! |
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Opening up the closet to where all our board games were, I pulled out three that I used to play with a lot: Pathfinder, Battleship and All-Star Baseball. |
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My younger brother Mark plays ping pong! |
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Oh hey, and check out some of the old pennants that I used to collect! Look! The Houston Oilers and San Antonio Gunslingers from the USFL! :) |
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Knock hockey! |
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And just look how big my stomach is getting in that picture! :( |
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Look! It's a Coleco miniature pool table! The felt is ripped up and the surface is badly warped, but it provided me with fun for years! :) |
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Two electronic baseball games! Parker Brohters Baseball & Head to Head Baseball! |
Intellivision Video Games
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Intellivision! Intellivision rocks! Whenever I come back I still play some of the games! Below are some of my favorites... |
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Lock & Chase, which was Intellivision's alternative to Atari's Pac-Man game. |
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Burger Time! Oh you got to love the graphics of the chef running over the hamburger buns! ;) |
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Tower of Doom! |
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Baseball! Ha ha ha! What graphics! The players look like chairs, don't they? :) |
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Space Armada! Ooooooooo! Shoot those monsters! :P |
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Tron Deadly Discs is a fairly interesting game! |
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And last but not least, was Commando which came out "later" in the mid-1980's. |
"Fireball Island" Board Game
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Amongst all the board games in the
Garufi household, playing Fireball Island
as a family has amazingly carried on to this very day! The funny thing is,
I don't think this game sold very well at all when it was on the market
in the mid-1980's. |
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Red marbles acts as fireballs as players fight to get off the island with the coveted jewel. |
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There I am fireballing someone while Dad objects to something. |
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I've got some nifty video clips coming of us playing Fireball Island, so stay tuned! :) |
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Hey, did you ever see when Mark bought a snakehead? |
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Hooray! :) |
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