iRemember: Gyromite

June 26, 2012

 

I remember when:

We played Mother may I?
We played Hungry Hippos
We got quarter waters; No gulp, gotta sip those

Acid wash jackets
There wasn’t any cell phones
You’d have your face in the screen door to see if you’re friend’s home

Boys would pull girls ponytails just to spark a chase
And the Ice cream truck was like messages on myspace

You couldn’t wait

Cherry Bomb pops, remember those?
Mickey Mouse ice cream with the bubblegum nose

Everybody playing, then you’d stop when your brain froze
The dirty kid in your class always wore the same clothes

couldn’t play pencils, had to find another sport
Lunch room breaking the teeth off plastic sporks

21 Jump street, Kids incorporated
Mystery Science Theater, my mother used to hate it

Cartoon express, with Hong Kong Phooey
And the Laffalympics with the Yogi Yahooeys

Annie was that movie, Footloose was kinda corny
That big ass dog on The Never ending story!

Grease 1 and 2,
Popeye and Bluto
Saved by the Bell’s Zach Attack and Menudo

My Little Pony,
The Doozers,
Fraggle Rock
Muppet babies Nanny rocked the tall striped socks

The Wonder years, with Kevin , Paul and Winney
Doogie Howser M.D With Wanda and Vinny

Pee Wee’s play house, secret word Chairee yelled
Smurfs were 3 apples high, got chased by Azreal

The Wuzzles: Rhinokey, Bumblelion, Butterbear


The littles, get along gang, man I was there

Couldn’t go past the driveway or catch a beatin’
Family Ties, Mallory, and  Alex P. Keaton

I remember Bermuda shorts,
Remember Jams?
And everybody thought they knew the pattern to Pac-Man

It was 227, then the Golden Girls show
Yeah I watched Rose Nylund and Blanche Devearux!

Biker shorts and hats,
Damn the spandex Dress!?
And the best was when Aresenio had Eddie as the guest.

Nintendo came out, we played all night
It had the gun,
The Robot Rob
and Gyromite

My Buddy, Kid sister, remember Glo worm?
Girls had Hawaiian Silky and ‘Just for me’ perm

The Snorks bit off the Smurfs and wasn’t funny at all
And the Kool-Aid man use to bust through Walls

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  • https://twitter.com/#!/cma300 Charles Anderson

    Damn man, you just took me back! I remember getting that robot…and having absolutely no idea how it worked. Once we figured out you could use the 2nd player control for gyromite, it was over. Oh, and Laff-A-Lympics was the truth!

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