You know you're nearing 50 in Adelaide, when you remember...

[GWW]

Playing cricket in the backyard with tape over half the tennis ball to make it swing.

[wristwatcher]

Me and the boys still do that to this day

[Thiele]

Watching Double Dare

[crackers]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

[Lightning McQueen]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

Wonderboy and Hyper-Olympics after that IIRC.

[CK]

...going to a local supermarket that was unknown outside of South Australia, such as Tom The Cheap, Serv-Wel, 4 Square, Arrow or Big Heart.

(the eastern states did have Jack The Slasher, which I think was roughly Tom The Cheap).

- Having a Halls Lemonade with an Amscol ice cream to make a Spider.

- Getting the corner deli to give you 20c pieces to play the games like Lightning McQueen listed above.

- "Walk Against Want" ("Get your happy feet walking, join the Walk Against Want").

- Going to the Channel 9 Football School, and sewing the patch on the footy jumper afterwards.

- Flicking through Mum or Dad's K-Tel Record Selector. Actually, buying K-Tel stuff from the TV at all.

- Dino Music. When an artist was on the downward slide, Dino Music would start releasing their stuff.

[JK]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

Wonderboy and Hyper-Olympics after that IIRC.

IMHO Hyper Olympics was the greatest game of all time

[CK]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

Wonderboy and Hyper-Olympics after that IIRC.

IMHO Hyper Olympics was the greatest game of all time

Surprisingly, CP, I agree completely on this one . I'd hate to think how much money I spent on that over the years, and trying to work out ways of getting faster with the buttons, particularly on the sprints.

[gadj1976]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

Wonderboy and Hyper-Olympics after that IIRC.

IMHO Hyper Olympics was the greatest game of all time

Surprisingly, CP, I agree completely on this one . I'd hate to think how much money I spent on that over the years, and trying to work out ways of getting faster with the buttons, particularly on the sprints.

Guys I played against regularly used to use the inside of a roll of tape - like the tape you use to strap your fingers together (real thin stuff). They put their fingers inside the roll and used that to roll across the buttons really quickly. It buggered the machine up because it scratched the surface of not only the machine but the buttons as well. But jeezus did they get a good score!

[woodwt]

Hey some great memories hey guys


Here are some things that I remember, not sure if they have been mentioned

8 track cartridge tapes, I got around 30 tapes and 2 8 track players

The orange ripple soles shoes called jaws

Levi sneakers

Evil Kenevil wind up stunt cycles

The Ripper (compilation) LPs

The TV show the tomorrow People

Earlybirds kids TV show I watched before going to school

The $1 choc burger, that didn’t last too long because it was too expensive

PJ Brady’s Pinball arcade up the stairs in Adelaide arcade

Hindley st Ice skating ring (where the venue was)

Gino’s Pinball arcade Hindley st

Iron on Transfer t-shirt shops


Also The Cornish bakehouse at Windsor gardens, Welland and Golden Grove all do Pie floaters

[Dirko]

When I was a kid I sold the News every Tuesday arvo on Belair Rd, outside the Caltex Servo.

I gave the Bird to the stuck up Scotch kids who went past on the bus. The following week half of 'em threw 5 & 10 cent pieces out of the window at me

I picked up more money off the ground then what News paid me

I used to always "borrow" money from my cash float for a Coke.....

Used to save papers for my regulars and "drive ups" used to get pissed off I wouldn't sell 'em one.

[GWW]

A couple of obscure tv programs

- Sylvania Waters
- Hard Copy

[Lightning McQueen]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

Wonderboy and Hyper-Olympics after that IIRC.

IMHO Hyper Olympics was the greatest game of all time

I loved that game too, there was a basketball game that was at ICA Brahma Lodge that used to be pretty good along with a grid iron game, both of them you had to beat the clock to stay alive.

[Footy Chick]

NBA Jam? I could never get the hang of that.


<--------- is a Wonderboy Queen and to this day I still believe that Wonderboy is in fact, the worlds best game ever.

Gauntlet was also good too

If anyone can remember there was an ice skating rink at the corner of Portrush and Payneham Road, across from Kerry O'Brien.

[Footy Smart]

Picking "Choose your own adventure" books as my reading assignments.

I could do three book reports from one book.

Im only early 20's yet i loved those books.

[CK]

Our teachers banned the Choose Your Own Adventure book report loophole after about a dozen of us did just that in Year 7 at once .

Did anyone else buy the ice block, which I think was called "Rocket", and collect the plastic sticks from them that could be put together to form structures/puzzles etc? Hard to describe what they looked like if you're not familiar with them, but they were interlocking.

Checking The News each week to see if your lucky SANFL Junior Supporters Club number had been picked to win a prize. One week, the number was one before mine, and I kept re-checking the paper and my card to see if there had been a mistake

The yearly Choc Wedge cricket sticks promotion, where you would either win an instant prize (a Choc Wedge, but some better prizes), or had a player's name on them with a number of runs. Once you collected 100 runs, you could post them in for a prize draw.

[A Mum]

Did anyone else buy the ice block, which I think was called "Rocket", and collect the plastic sticks from them that could be put together to form structures/puzzles etc? Hard to describe what they looked like if you're not familiar with them, but they were interlocking.

I didn't collect them - but now you mention it I definitely remember them

[Dogwatcher]

Not sure if already said, watching ET at the Elizabeth cinema, having a steak sanga and playing 1942 at th Smithfield roadhouse, McMahons and Loys drinks home delivered

Playing 1942 at the Elizabeth Football Club

I remember a machine at Smithfield FC that was easily broken into as well, lol

[woodwt]

A couple of obscure tv programs


- Hard Copy

Great show that with Gordon Elliott

[trev]

Evil Kenevil wind up stunt cycles

They were awesome! Mine still worked even though it
spectacularly failed to clear the duck pond on its maiden flight.

How about those demolition derby cars that had everthing fall off when you
crashed them into each other. Does anyone remember them?