some EXPENSIVE toy/gadget/treat YOU asked your parents/gaurdiens for, and GOT

5rtytry56

• This does not include any 'DEAL' you made with your parents, e.g you did well in your Junior Cert
• Likewise, This does not include getting it with your communion or confirmation money.

You were a kid, and asked for something like some cool toy or to go some place cool, and received it.

Truckermal

Yes a Commodore 64.

5rtytry56

Reminds me, I asked for Space Harrier II for the ZX Spectrum off dad, back in the day. Got it. One of the last main stream games for the Spectrum.

stoplooklisten

Keepers, Keepers, what's inside those keepers?....

let me just take this penny and open the damm thing ?

hairyslug

Scalectrix, wanted it for ages, had even memorised the code number for the circuit I was getting

chillin117

Mousetrap, A Rube Goldberg type of boardgame, Busy building at 3am Christmas Morning !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

SEPT 23 1989

constant nagging separately at each parent followed by many "we will sees" and then capitulation

chillin117

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

constant nagging separately at each parent followed by many "we will sees" and then capitulation

I hated ''we will see'' Like a knife to the heart but not a No either !

Ruu

Sega Megadrive, got one except it was a Japanese version so would play about 50% of the games.

razorblunt

Nintendo 64. My mega drive was dying a death, I, for some reason wasn't allowed a PlayStation. I asked for an N64 around Halloween one year for the following Xmas, my Dad rocked home with one 5 days later. I was well chuffed.

chillin117

Ruu wrote: »

Sega Megadrive, got one except it was a Japanese version so would play about 50% of the games.

And most of the games you wanted to play were in the ''bogey'' 50%

eeguy

A PS1. Dad came home and told me to clean my room.
Ended up having a huge argument over it and stormed up and slammed the door.

And there it was on the bed. He just wanted to surprise me.

Bobby Baccala

Megajoy, one of those knock off Chinese plug and play games that you stuck straight into the back of the TV. Was basically a Nintendo 64 controller with a scart lead attached to it, had loads of NES games on it like the original Super Mario Bros, adventure island and all those sketchy athletics games spent hours on that thing.

Alf Stewart.

Me first ute

Manys a sheila got a special night out with me in that.

matchthis

A bike! Fecken great so it was. We'd go on long cycles and adventures. Proper goonies style.

A bike. A racer. It was second hand and a bit small for me, or outgrew it quite quickly, so used to fly over the handlebars regularly. Great times!

boobar

Sorry to turn this all Angela's Ashes....

Was a 70s kid, no gadgets or toys unless it was your birthday or Xmas.

I do remember thinking this is the best Xmas ever when we got that tennis game....basically two lines that moved up and down and a dot that moves across the screen....

A lot different to the life of my 8 year old kid

5rtytry56

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so used to fly over the handlebars regularly.

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that'll DO ME, Conor ol' boy!:D:D

ToddyDoody

A remote control car... but a crappy cheap version. (the mortgage was more important)

Speedwell

I was a very practical child and only asked for things I knew I would get good use out of, but I asked for (and got) my own recliner chair for my bedroom, and the next year a brand-name computerised sewing machine, and the year after that a grand piano. I still don't know exactly how my parents pulled that one off; I think my piano teacher had heard of someone selling a practically new one because they had to move out of the country. But I'd been playing for 12 years by then and was starting to teach the little kids in my neighborhood.

Oddly, if I asked for anything because other kids had one, that was a sure way to not get it, whether it was a certain style handbag or shoes, makeup, you name it.

ToddyDoody

Speedwell wrote: »

I was a very practical child and only asked for things I knew I would get good use out of, but I asked for (and got) my own recliner chair for my bedroom, and the next year a brand-name computerised sewing machine, and the year after that a grand piano. I still don't know exactly how my parents pulled that one off; I think my piano teacher had heard of someone selling a practically new one because they had to move out of the country. But I'd been playing for 12 years by then and was starting to teach the little kids in my neighborhood.

Oddly, if I asked for anything because other kids had one, that was a sure way to not get it, whether it was a certain style handbag or shoes, makeup, you name it.

Which reminds me, I really wanted a juicer when I was 8 or 9. Wasn't happening.

Speedwell

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Which reminds me, I really wanted a juicer when I was 8 or 9. Wasn't happening.

My mother had one. She was cleaning it one day while it was still plugged in and nearly removed two of her fingers. I wouldn't buy one for my kids either.

Unless you're making fun of me, which I understand. But I have been sewing since I was 10, and the year I got the machine for myself, I helped make the costumes for the school play. Any idiot can sew if someone teaches them to.

ToddyDoody

Speedwell wrote: »

My mother had one. She was cleaning it one day while it was still plugged in and nearly removed two of her fingers. I wouldn't buy one for my kids either.

But it looked so good on the infomercial. (it was called the Juice Tiger)
If you ordered now you got this free smoking monkey.

Turtyturd

A fiver to go see Jurassic Park.

Valentina

I was/am a spoiled brat and got pretty much everything I asked for BUT tbf I didn't often ask for stuff.

Two things that stand out in my mind were my Game Boy and my roller blades (Bauer FX3 - man I loved them).

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Liveline is back on tomorrow after the news at 1. You will provide great fodder for the gang in the Radio forum should you chose to call in.

Galwayguy35

One christmas got a remote control motorbike and the brother got a remote control car, we were out in the shops and we never had anything like that before because like many others money was tight.

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MilesMorales1

I had 15 siblings. We didn't get any things like that, not even for birthdays really.

This Fat Girl Runs

We weren't into expensive stuff as a family but the coolest gift I got from them was a box set (on VHS of course) of all the Star Trek Original Series movies. Up to 5 at the time I think.

Oh, and one year they gave me tickets to see Phantom of the Opera. I went with my older brother. That was awesome.

StripedBoxers

A Nokia 3310 when I was 12. :pac:

A while ago now.