LGR - Tomy Waterful Ring Toss Review

I HAD THIS MODEL!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH, MY MIND ASPLODE

Thank you, I'm glad to "sea" you enjoy them

LGR

That's the same one!

LGR

I fixed the problem.

John Edwards

Is that the same Waterful Ring Toss, as in your 'Top 17 Games I Want To Talk About'? Haha.

Johannes Koch

Could be your Patreon email settings, your email service spam settings, or something in-between. Not sure!

LGR

That was actually pretty great! My brothers and I had a bunch of these water games we used to play all the time as children! (Although none of us had the original 1976 model, what with us being born in 1987, 1990 and 1995 respectively.) I don't know what about it made it so fun, but it definitely was addictive! It was the original Farmville so to speak. I wasted hours trying to meticulously get the things into/onto the other things, and always got that elated thrill when I pulled it off! Also, I love those water puns!

Jess the Stampede

For some strange reason, I don't receive the email saying that you have uploaded something. Any reason for that?

John Edwards

I sort of remember these as a kid - didn't have one directly, but I do remember being a little interested with a similar one to this at a cousin's place. I can see why a young kid would dig it - trying to hit the button in the right way - getting them to match out. Still all rather interesting in a weird light :)

Rob Caporetto

my mamaw had the ringtoss and the basketball version and I played the crap outta them before I discovered video games and because its was one of the only things to veep me busy before WCW Saturday Night came on at 7:05pm, ahh the good ol' days

Zach Highwind Spoonamore

Had one as a kid, probably broke the button at some point.

Deveron

I remember playing with something like this when I was a kid. There was two buttons at each side and three pegs. I would try to separate the colours onto each peg. ...I was pretty patient even as a kid...

Razumi Yazura

I had one (or more?) of these as a kid too. I ran across one last year at my local Goodwill too but passed on it.

You're lucky - I only sighed and rolled my eyes at that response compared to what I did for the originally mentioned pun. :P hehe

Lindsay Michelle

Haha, yeah it's funny how these simple things still had a use even after computers were introduced. Always when the computer wasn't available though.

LGR

My apologies for any lasting effects from such a prolific parade of puns.

LGR

I didn't even hear of G&W until like 2008! Seriously!

LGR

Ahh yes, this was indeed talked about in that video. I think I've reviewed most of the games and things in that list by now!

LGR

Never used either, but I've certainly seen it talked about online

LGR

Had no idea they made those blocks! Those look awesome. But yeah, Tomy (Takara-Tomy today) has made a ton of stuff I'm familiar with but had no idea they made. Beyblade, anyone??

LGR

I wasn't even trying to with this one, it's really not that fun :P

LGR

Haha, nice!

LGR

Ahead of its time for sure!

LGR

Dude! I wrote a blog about Water games a while back! <a href="http://www.greatbitblog.com/remember-those-water-games/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.greatbitblog.com/remember-those-water-games/</a> It's awesome to see you made a video on these! I got one of these as a teenager that was shaped like a GameBoy.

Ian Guebert

Wow, you really can make anything sounds fun

Sabrina

The gameplay looks like it would get repetitive after a while, but holy balls those graphics are so crisp and lifelike!! How they accomplished this in 1976 is beyond me. 5 stars.

RetroSwim

The smaller of the two pinball toys I have was made by Tomy. Both can be seen in the first pinball-related filler video I made not too many months ago: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=824247">https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=824247</a> Much to my surprise, Tomy still exists and is still making all manners of cool toys. They're actually responsible for one I want to get my hands on at some point known as Boggle Flash (aka Scrabble Flash) which consists entirely of just five electronic tiles that show various letters on their screens and can detect their physical arrangement, thus automatically scoring the words you make with them! :o

Kris Asick

You are so right about the cheerios that get caught in the plastic folds. This brings back so many memories. I must have had 5 variations of the ring toss game throughout my life.

Steven Friar

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Oh wow! I completely forgot about these! Tomy products were such a part of my life as a child. From those wind up boxers and that bowling game to the Tomy Tutor Computer. Actually, now that I think about it, I had both the real computer AND the play toy computer! Clint, have you seen and/or used either? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAghB2-Ks5I" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAghB2-Ks5I</a>

Steve Martin

I had game and watch games in my childhood in the 80s. back then not everyone had a computer and computers were expensive ( I eventually got a commodore 64 and soon after my bigbrother gave me a brand new commodore 128D).. Everyone played game and watch on the 80s.

Michelle Weihe

I remember this from the list of games you wanted to talk about. Good job including the old chair in the background.

Zabe

Well, this is certainly something completely different! I know that feeling where you find something you completely forgotten about from your childhood and it slingshots itself back into your mind. Anyways, I like hearing stories about your childhood antics - cute family photo, too. :) And on another note... "water relief once you win"???? That pun was double-facepalm worthy (aka: my actual reaction). I think I shook my head and groaned at that, too! :P

Lindsay Michelle

I never had the water filled games, at least to me recollection. I do remember a little portable game that had a wind up motor and this thing with 4 cups will spin around and you needed to flick balls into the cups. It was noisy and didn't hold my interest long. Of course we did have our computer then, and I used that while waiting for my brother to get off the computer...

Douglas Holmes