Shit I'm old
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You want to know how old I am?
When I was a kid my parents got me a plastic maze game from the grocery store. It was comprised of two halves, a red plastic lower shell and a clear plastic upper shell which had maze walls molded into it. The point of the game was obviously to tilt and tumble it around to get the ball from the start to the finish.
Except.
The ball was a goddamn blob of mercury.
Many of the ends of the walls were deliberately V shaped so if your mercury blob hit one it'd get split, part of it going down one path and part of it going down the other. So then you'd have the added challenge of either bringing them back together or separately getting two or more progressively smaller segments of it to the finish. This was an interesting and highly amusing take on the usual kiddie maze-game concept if it weren't for the fact that the ball was a goddamn blob of mercury.
Can you imagine if such a thing were made today and handed to children? There would be a riot. 60 minutes would do a hard hitting prime time exposé. The Biden administration would take out the factory making them with a drone strike.
Yeah I had a mercury maze, it was second hand but somehow ended up in my toy collection. It isn't that dangerous, but you're right that it wouldn't get made nowadays.
unless its thrown down a flight of stairs onto hard wood, Oopises! now you got a mess of mercury all over the floor! What a mess! you need asbestos mop! the only number one recommended mop 3 years in a row! /s
I was scientifically-minded enough to know the mercury should probably stay in the maze, even if the point of a maze is to find your way out of it. That was the cruelest part actually. Even if the mercury made it out of the maze, it was still in a plastic prison. Brings a tear to my eye.
There was a cool game on the PSP that took this idea and made a really good game with it, at least from what I remember of it.
Lead was probably added to make the colors brighter too
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I am that old, but I am not this old:
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I know it would probably give me cancer, but i'd still play with that today.
Would play that while waiting for the doctor. They always had it in the waiting room.
Which was pretty clever, really. It would make absolutely sure all the kids there for checkups would get strep throat from the sick kids, and the office would bring in more money.
I thought my mom was so mean for not letting me play with any of the cool doctor office toys. Now my kids get to think I’m so mean for the same thing.
Hello fellow 80s/90s children.
I was only born in the 90's and those were still around in the 00's.
I just bought one for my toddlers..
my 6yo cousin has a smartphone toy that is just one of these things and it's amazing
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I've always wanted one of these toys as a PC waterloop reservoir. The playfull aesthetic would be amazing!
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I'm quite young and I have used these multiple times. They probably still exists.
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Yes, yes I am.
You could play for 15 minutes and feel like you were speedrunning carpal tunnel and arthritis.
well fuck that explains a lot
Yeah
older
Horse shoes old here.
Yeah my grandpa used to get us out in the backyard for that too
If you die playing this, you don't come back to life tho.
96 year old man finally scores at this
"I DID I-AHH!"
dies of heart attack
I'm so old this isn't the 1st time I have seen this image
Ugh yes. And it was awful.
I also remember the shampoo Gameboy like version of Donkey Kong I think. It was so cool, till my dad beat me up for ruining the Gameboy in the shower. He only later found out it wasn't the real Gameboy but instead the shampoo bottle game.
Yes but in a different shape like a gameboy or phone (the old nokia kind of ones) where screen was filled with water rings and poles .
Dentist’s waiting room
I remember seeing this around the cash registers at Burger King as a way to win a free sandwich.
I never won.
I never understood this "game". From what I remember it's just pure chance.
Sounds like a skill problem. /S
Nah, long enough car trips you figure out how to not only stack all the rings, but in correct rainbow order.
I'm so sorry for your loss! no human should have to go through that! /s
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Yup
My Generation Alpha children loved those. They are still a thing.
I've heard that anyone that has played this are called tossers.
I noticed my indicator was still blinking a minute or so after I changed lanes.
I was that poor, that was only thing I had
Shut up no one likes you
Hours invested in that game of the devil
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