Few will ever forget bolting out of bed and running down the stairs to check what Santa left you on Christmas morning, waking up the adults in the house in the process. The smell of a newly opened tin of sweets, trying on your news clothes, going to Christmas Day services, the big dinner, selection boxes and running out to the street to show your friends what you got and check out what Santa had left for them. It was magic.
25. An employee operates the interactive and self-transforming robot of the Transformer series Optimus Prime during the press preview of the 72th toy fair (Spielwarenmesse), in Nuremberg, southern Germany, on January 31, 2023. - More than 2,800 exhibitors from 70 countries will present their latest toys at the toy fair from February 1, 2023 until February 5, 2023. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)
Transformers (robots in disguise) arrived from outer space in 1984 and have been with us ever since. Here an employee operates the interactive and self-transforming robot of the Transformer series, Optimus Prime during the press preview of the 72th toy fair (Spielwarenmesse), in Nuremberg, southern Germany. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images) Photo: CHRISTOF STACHE
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Jenga was, and still is, one for all the family. Pictured are children participating in Ginger Jenga at the Irish Redhead Convention back in 2015 in Cork. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images) Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne
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On December 25 there would likely be someone bouncing along your street on a Space Hopper just as professional boxer Frank Bruno is doing here back in 1984. (Photo by P. Shirley/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: P. Shirley
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Making your own slush drinks was a favourite past-time for children in the 1980s. Photo: YouTube