Knoxville, TN
Yes! Quick google search show this. Temped for $10 lol.
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Posting a pic for those Pinsiders that never got to experience the excitement.
Amazing that toys such as this ever even got sold in stores.
Consumer safety laws probably started kicking in shortly after products such as this came out.
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Best yard game ever. Generally speaking I’m not one for overbearing laws but outlawing Jarts actually makes sense lol.
Made it through 24 pages of reading this morning. Great trip down nostalgia lane.
A few other things not mentioned that I loved (age 51, almost 52)
1. Players my cowboys and Indians with the neighborhood kids and cap guns. So politically incorrect nowadays. Only arguments were if a shot “got you” or not
2. Bowling fetish as a child https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+bowling+pins&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=rr55VQm_jVFSBM:
3. My first computer Sinclair ZX81. Came with one KB and my dad upgraded me to 16! Did have a flight simulator that took over 5 minutes to load off of a cassette deck (no floppy drive). Learned some basic programming. Kept that bad boy until the huge upgrade to a Commodore 64 computer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File%3ASinclair-ZX81.png
4. Also played lots of fantasy games like D&D (still have a bunch of my crap in my moms basement lol) and fantasy games on different computers. One that I always wanted was Wizardry on an Apple II computer but that was just too expensive.
5. Also had hours of fun playing tackle football with the neighbor kids and a nerf football. Field was in between houses. Classic rush time of “1-Mississippi, 2-etc”
6. Riding bikes to the local pool nearly every day in the summer. Just like the recent Stranger Things lol.
7. Golfing and playing tennis as I became a young teenager.
Quoted from Apollyon:Here was me as a little guy with what was one of my favourite games as a kid. I loved this Christmas. The Bowl-A-Matic 300.
When I got older, I always wanted a bowling game. Skeeball was great but I wanted full bowling action. The big ball bowlers are amazing, but wouldn't fit in my house. But recently I found an alternative that is decent space wise that incorporates both the physical element of bowl with modern technology. The Lane Master Pro. My kids love it.[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
Wow. Looks cool. Is that a puck or a ball bowler? How long is it?
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