Many people believe that during the Soviet era, children did not have toys. Even as they were and more interesting than now. Let's see what entertainment was available at that time.
So: Cannon.
You could shoot pencil stubs out of it so deftly! And it was also possible to place the caps in their regular place, which made the roar and joy several times greater. And we fired at these soldiers:
Of course, there were much more different soldiers and more varied, but this is only what I found. It was more fun to shoot if the soldiers did not stand openly, but were hiding in trenches dug in the sandbox, and if at home, then behind parapets and in buildings made from this Soviet Lego clone:
The stump is clear, one gun was not enough to destroy the entire horde, so it was possible to involve friends, or even girlfriends, in the action, who could destroy the enemy with the help of this rocket launcher:
Various types of equipment drove around the battlefield:
In addition, it was not bad to crush the enemy with the pressure of armor and tracks, for which there was a wire-controlled IS-3 tank:
It is clear that the games of Soviet children were not limited to just playing soldiers. We also played “war games,” for which we needed the appropriate devices. In addition to absolutely homemade ones, I also had purchased ones:
This one fired these discs. When they were all finally lost, I started shooting two-kopeck coins from it - they were exactly the right size, but to do this I had to ruin my parents’ entire stock of “kopeck coins” collected for making payphone calls... They kicked my ass big time. By the way, I still remember the price of this pistol - 2 rubles. 50 kopecks, yes.
In addition, there were a huge number of different designers. Some people here told me that they “didn’t get it together,” but it seems to me that it’s not the construction kits, but the crooked little hands—I got it all together!
There were also models:
By the way - the last one is radio controlled. And then they shouted to me: “There were no radio-controlled models in the scoop!” Yes, the radio control was sold separately and cost a lot (25 rubles, if I’m not mistaken). So my brother and I built it ourselves, taking a diagram from the magazine “Modelist-Constructor” from 1983. The parts were dragged from the radio dump behind NICEVT, or from the dump of the Polytechnic of Communications located behind the fence from our house, also known as the automatic telephone exchange of our region - there was always a heap of radio parts there. For some reason, we were particularly amused by the instruction given in the instructions: “...Don’t forget to put a model of a person in the boat. A boat rushing at full speed without a person inside looks pretty stupid...”
Well, and everything else I had in bulk:
I had one like this, but not a crane, but with a body. It was wired controlled, and the body also rose from the remote control. It was cool.
Well, there was “Hockey”, of course.
There were a lot of board games. This one is "Young Motorist", or something like that.
In general, something like this. But, as some Svidomo people explained to me here, “the Savet children had no toys!” Comrade Stalin stole them all and personally ate them. Or - Beria. Here the opinions of different Svidomo differ. And how did I live without all this diversity? I don't understand.
