We grew up poor. No easybake; and that ice cream playset is new for me. My friends had the hungry hippo game, mastermind, battleship, lots of gi-joe dolls, then nintendos and 3DOs and segas later.
Strangely enough, we were fine with monopoly and sorry and cards - uno! - and even wooden swords; but what I envied was the train set my friend's dad had set up. It was glorious, with mountains and tunnels and switches and houses and trees, all papier mache and painted wooden models and plastic people.


