Walmart, Target pull children’s game that had players defuse toy bomb

NY Post ^ | 1/15/19 | Emily Jacobs

[Haiku Guy]

I loved that game!

[JZelle]

When are they going to pull all those awful video games off their shelves?

[BenLurkin]

Looks cool.

[NorthMountain]

Looks like a fun game!

[Chengdu54]

I hope the game Operation is next to go because I’m pretty sure that guy dies when the buzzer sounds.

[hanamizu]

Two toys from my childhood I told my students about featured “explosions”. They both involved battleships. The ship was plastic and was in four or five pieces. Rubber bands stretched from place to place so that it was like a set mouse trap. If you hit the trigger, the ship flew apart.

One variation had its trigger on the side and you tried to hit it with a torpedo fired from a submarine. The other kind had its trigger on top and you tried to hit it by dropping a metal bomb on it from a B-29.

I remember my dad laughing at my efforts to “bomb” the ship. I’d hold my plane right over the ship and try to hit the trigger. He’d say the tricky part (he had been in the Army Air Force) was hitting it from up high while moving fast.

[rhombus10]

Yup, I had time bomb. I also had plastic hand grenades you could load up with caps or "greenie stickup caps". I also had the "Johnny 7" which was 7 guns in one. I had toy German lugars, American 45s, and revolvers. I had a toy camo tommy gun. My father was a vet and member of "the Greatest Generation". Domino theories made sense to those who lived WWII.

And all that time, year after year Vietnam raged on. I grew older and closer to the draft. When I turned 18 I received a draft number somewhere in the middle. However, Nixon ended the draft one year before and I went to college instead of playing with real guns. Not even once had I ever "contemplated blowing up the White House."

[VTenigma]

I had one too, it was fun. Progressives have made fun a bad thing.

[markoman]

And don’t forget Stratego.

Marko

[Yo-Yo]

I had a toy Ma Duce (.50 cal machine gun) on a tripod. There's even an old photo of me when I was maybe 4 or 5 (would have been 1964-ish) with a plastic Army helmet on, sitting behind it. It took batteries that lasted about 5 minutes, so for most of its life the machine gun sound was made by the shooter.

(Edit to add:) Here is the same toy!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeAil_AiLEo

I remember it to be much bigger, but then I was much smaller back then...

[dead]

Or maybe don’t buy it.

[rhombus10]

Excellent! I would have loved that toy and would have shot those kamikazes right out of the air.

[onedoug]

No, you don’t.

[Rebelbase]

Can never train them early enough, right?

[Yo-Yo]

No, you don’t.

Yeah, I do.

Either you are against kids playing with toy guns for whatever reason, and I can respect that.

Or else you're a hypocrite for allowing your kids to play with toy guns, but not a toy bomb defusing game.

[Kommodor]

Dang, now I want one.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[lowbridge]

[gnarledmaw]

Playing "bomb" is nothing new. Long ago I was given what would have been one of the first production runs of Perfection.

I played it several times before realizing that it was a lot more fun to pretend that I was actually defusing a bomb and saving everyone around by completing it in time.

Realizing that I was playing with "a bomb" led to the next version of play. I would preload the game and put it back in its box then try and place it near others, all bad guys who deserved it I assure you, and run away. When the timer went off the tray popped and flung all the pieces into the lid. BOOM, I just blew up a bunch of bad guys.

This move by the stores is as stupid as refusing to sell poptarts because some kid chewed one into a pistol.