Which of these retro toys did you love as a child?

Furby Furby was THE toy of the 1990s.

The original Nintendo brought to us in 1986, no home was complete without one.

Cabbage Patch Kids These ever popular dolls where all the rage in 1983. They’re worth a lot of money online today.

Rubik’s Cube We spent hours in 1980 trying to unscramble our Rubik’s cube. It was one part fun to one part mental torture!

Atari VCS 1979 saw the beginning of the (never-ending) craze for video games, starting with the Atari VCS.

Star Wars figurines After the release of Star Wars in 1977, children around the world went ga-ga for merchandise – everything from notebooks and pens to figurines.

Pet Rocks Did you have a Pet Rock? It seems so silly now, but back in 1975 we loved ours! It came in a cardboard box packed with straw and breathing holes, and was a fad that lasted a surprising six months!

Walkie Talkies In 1973 there was a craze for Walkie Talkies, which made us feel like secret agents as we passed messages to friends – always ending with ‘over and out’.

Uno Still a family-favourite today, Uno was a great hit in 1972 – and a good way to get your revenge on siblings by making them pick up four extra cards.

If you woke on Christmas morning in 1971 to a large weight on your feet, you were probably one of the lucky children to receive that year’s must-have toy – the Space Hopper. How we loved bouncing around the garden on these bright, beautiful toys. We still remember the smell of the plastic.

Spirograph It shouldn’t have been as fun as it was, but something about spinning a pen round in a plastic cog to make spiral patterns was one of our favourite things to do in 1967.

Twister board game A board game unlike any other, it was such fun to put our left hand on green and our right foot on blue – although it did lead to the odd bruise as we all collapsed on top of each other!

Operation board game We loved pretending to be surgeons with our tiny tweezers – but always felt a bit guilty when we caused our poor patient’s nose to glow red!

Fisher Price Chatter Telephone Fisher Price toys really have stood the test of time, and the Chatter Phone, with its wide eyes and red wheels is still available today.

Trolls They’re still around today, but Trolls reached the height of their success in 1961. These funny-faced creatures had a shock of bright hair that we loved to brush or plait.

Etch-a-Sketch We’re not sure why drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch was so much more fun than using a pen and paper…but it was! Perhaps it was to do with the big buttons, or the satisfaction of giving it a good shake to clear it. Whatever it was, it was the best-selling toy of 1960.

Hula Hoops You were no one in the playground if you didn’t have a hula hoop. Sometimes the simplest toys really are the best, and the bright plastic hoops were a runaway success. Can you still work one today?

Silly Putty Less of an intellectual challenge than Scrabble, the other favourite toy of the year was Silly Putty. Funny, slightly pointless yet strangely satisfying squidgy stuff!

Matchbox cars If you had brothers, you no doubt tripped over a few badly placed Matchbox cars in your childhood! Pleasingly solid little toys, they were great fun to race.

Slinky It sounds boring – just a metal spring that walks itself down the stairs – but that didn’t stop us spending hours from watching them. And, if we’re honest, stretching them out and messing around with them once the novelty of the stairs had worn off.

Pedigree dolls Oh how we loved our Pedigree dolls! We loved to dress up our babies and put them to bed in an old drawer. We were so envious of any little girls who owned a proper little pram.

Walt Disney’s Cinderella toys Also popular in 1950 were toys and games based on the release of Walt Disney’s latest feature film, which came out in July.

Water balloons! These were a cheap and cheerful stocking filler, particularly popular in 1950. If you had brothers you’ll no doubt remember the sting of a water balloon to the back of your head!