When I was a kid I pestered my mom for months prior to Xmas for this lovely tank<\/a>. I had convinced her that owning one would somehow make me a computer programmer because it was one of the first toys on the market where you punched in commands and pressed go. That’s debatable, of course, the Japanese were making wooden tea servants long before Big Trak, but I digress. <\/p>\n

Xmas came and I tore into that gift like Tom Sizemore at a hooker convention. Within 15 minutes I was jabbing commands into it’s touch pad arse. By the end of the day, the batteries were worn out and it had already jammed up an axle on the shag carpet by crawling around in the livingroom. My family breathed a sigh of relief (the thing made a huge “Ka-Zort!” noise from it’s laser cannon that would give a migraine to pencil). <\/p>\n

Toys! What was your fave growing up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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