How many of us listening are 80s kids? I know I'm one of them. Before we had all of the

electronic devices that we have now, we had very different ways of entertaining ourselves am I right like I told you guys in the

last episode I'm an only child so finding ways to entertain myself was essential.

I didn't have a lot of toys that required someone else to play along with me.

As a matter of fact, my parents didn't really get me toys like that. I didn't have dolls or

action figures. I used to be so jealous of some of the other kids in the

neighborhood that had elaborate Barbie mansions or Star Wars set-ups in their bedrooms.

I had none of that. My parents provided me with things that I could occupy myself with by myself. I had a speak and spell and I had

this thing called a kid quiz. It was like this electronic keyboard with an assortment of booklets that quizzed you on a variety of trivia topics.

I had card games, I had Newton balls, dominoes, a Rubik's Cube, marbles, silly putty.

I had a massive sticker collection and I had a dartboard.

I had building sets like Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs. I had a chalkboard and an easel. And looking back on it, I feel like I was pretty satisfied with the things I had. I guess if I did have some Barbies or Star Wars action figures, it would have been pretty pathetic to try and play those things alone.

As I got older, I got my own phone in my room.

It wasn't as cool as getting your own private line,

but that never happened for me.

I had one of those really neat acrylic phones that you can see all of the innards and

wireings of it.

I thought that thing was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, even cooler than my inflatable palm tree.

I eventually got my own little boom box in my room with a tape deck.

I would sit there and listen to the radio and try and catch my favorite

song so I could record them onto some memorax tapes and decorate them with

stickers from my collection. I did have an Atari 5200 which had two controllers but only one ever

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