Nostalgia ABC's

[samrw3]

Trying out a new game here... where in alphabetical order we start a memory from the past based on that letter.

Only two rules try your best to use next letter in line and for those that are in other countries try to be helpful in description. For example if in Australia you said Aussies - good stuff - and that was a cereal but us in the states wouldn't know if it was coffee, dessert, or who knows what.

Ok here we go...

Alpha-Bits cereal - I remember eating this cereal when I was younger and trying to eat each cereal in alphabetical order.

Ok your turn

[Savor Dam]

Betamax - a Sony videotape format that was technically superior, but lost the market competition to the more popular VHS standard.

[Skyweir]

Cracker Night

[samrw3]

Donkey Kong - a video game I spent WAY to many hours trying to master when I was younger. Given that I have little hand eye coordination never made it very far

[Savor Dam]

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

[Skyweir]

I remember Elivira

Freddo Frogs

[samrw3]

Couldn't think of G so cheating here....

Hungry Hippo board game - I remember smashing those levers down trying to get the marbles.

[Skyweir]

Girlfriends from the past ... G

I ... Ice cream trucks driving round suburban streets .. playing ice cream truck jingle tunes

[Linna Heartbooger]

"Jambalya an' a crawfish pie and a fillet gumbo..." blasting on the radio or on a tape.

[Skyweir]

Kit Kats .. I remember them better than they are today

[samrw3]

Lollipops - how many licks does it take to get to the center? One...Two...three...CRUNCH!

[Cord Hurn]

MTV

[Skyweir]

Nirvana

[samrw3]

Oscar the Grouch - Sesame Street TV character. I was most fascinated by Oscar who lived in a garbage can - and I thought he was the funniest

[Cord Hurn]

Play-Dough: as a kid, I loved putting it on comics in the newspaper and stretching the images out.

[samrw3]

Qbert - I was fascinated by this video game and the strange looking character.

[Linna Heartbooger]

As well you should - it looks awesome!
I, too, am mesmerized by that screenshot, and the funny snake and long-nose guy!
Full disclosure- my 7-Y-O son asked me to ask you how to play it.
(I will show him on Wikipedia...)

R - Reading that one shareware/freeware catalog, and dreaming of getting games, Desktop Publishing Software, etc. outta them.

[samrw3]

Linna, I don't remember all the details.

However, here are the basics. You are the long nosed character and you jump around on blocks and can only jump one block at a time (in other words no super jumps where you can jump over multiple blocks at a time)

When you jump on a block it changes to a color (yellow in screen shot). You are supposed to change all blocks to that color before your lives run out.

Your lives run out when a snake or other creatures jumps on you or something hits you (for example balls come bouncing down)

You can jump onto and use the rainbow flying discs as an escape if something "bad" gets too close. The rainbow disc will transport you to top of pyramid and you madly go back to trying to change colors.

I never made it too far into game so I'm not sure if some added wrinkles are added further into game. However, I do know for sure they add more snakes/creatures as you advance in levels.

It is actually pretty addictive game - lol.

[Cagliostro]

Santa's Workshop

Every year, the weather guy would dress up as Santa, while someone else played a little puppet who had obviously watched a lot of the Marx Brothers, and hilarity would ensue. We referred to him as The Real Santa, and he would come to local department stores. Pretty much every kid growing up in Wichita watched it at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdqMbPYzXKI

[Skyweir]

Tartan 3/4 pants Bay City Roller fans wore ...

Scottish boy band I was madly in Love be with lol