I remember I got a really nice remote control car. It cost around 230.00 dollars. I remember the name of the dune buggy. It was called the fox.
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When I was really little, like maybe 3, I got a little mechanical dog that would walk around and bob its head. I can’t remember if it barked. We have pictures of me getting it for Christmas. I still have it. Well loved.
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In the 80s I got a electronic tank called tractor and you used a key pad to program where it goes. It was my favorite gift as a child
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Probably any big Star Wars toy. Especially the Millennium falcon.
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Robie robot from Radio Shack. 80’s toy.
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My stuffed dog Clem. And the year when my parents got me real, adult art supplies for the last night of Chanukah, instead of kid stuff.
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Mine was probably a big wheel. 
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A Nintendo 1st one before the N64.
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Dolls were my favorite. I also liked transformers and gi joe action figures.
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The one thing. I begged for I got. A toy printing press. I used to type up papers with home made copy paper. So I got the press and printed cards to give out when I ran for secretary of the student council.
Then I lost a lot of letters and the ink dried up.
They wouldn’t buy replacements.
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For me it was also a remote control car. It was the only one I ever owned, I remember as a child setting up ramps and obstacle courses for it.
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Probably a tie my Commodore 64 and my Nintendo (The original NES).
The C64 was probably the most memorable. I really wanted one but there was nothing big under the tree except small little boxes so I didn’t think I was getting one. When my brother and I opened each box there was a piece of paper with a clue on where in the the house to look. We ran around the house and found all the pieces to the computer. We were so surprised and happy. Then I put it all together and my brother and I spent the rest of the day playing video games.
The Nintendo was great too, not only did my parents by my brother and I the Nintendo, they also bought us a separate TV to go along with it.
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Cool gift! I would have loved that.
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Super cool of your parents to do that!
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A yellow basketball. It was different and cool and wouldn’t get mixed up with other balls.
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A slot car set. when I was 8. We set it up and raced all day and my mom let us keep it set up in the living room for a week.
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My new piano when I was 12. My dad had taken a sledge hammer to the old one. It broke my heart. My parents were divorced by then so I lucked out and my mom got me a new one
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The gift I liked the most was a Radio Shack electronics kit for kids. Taught me the basics of circuitry and I kept learning from there.
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RoboSapien!!
The best gift I ever got (along with sister) was in the '80’s…a brand new Apple II-c computer. It had a 128 kilobyte hard drive! It was one of the first computers with an actual hard drive, tho it was abysmally small compared to later computers. We got PhotoShop software with it to print signs on the dot-matrix printer, the Infocom game “Zork” where you had to type in commands, and everything required a boot disk. I learned how to program with DOS on it and also had my first experience with RPGs when I played the original “Fallout” game on it. It was a really special gift, especially since at the time it cost about $2000 for everything and we were pretty poor, so I know my parents must’ve financed it (like when Atari 2600 came out, my parents got the generic Sears version to save money). I sure love my mom and dad!
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