#3, I’m so glad someone else remembers “hungry hungry hippos.” I was singing the diddy for it mere weeks ago and my (Canuck) husband thought I’d flipped a lid. He’d never heard of it, and thought maybe it was a flashback I was having, or something!? Now I have proof of its existence! So thank you.

Connect Four, Mousetrap, and Battleship surely have to figure in this mix, no?

8: Pinball museum! I loved pinball growing up, and still do. My grandparents put a pinball machine in their living room for the grandkids in 1974, and even though it wasn’t a real, 200-pound, flashing-lights barmonster, it was fun nonetheless. We couldn’t believe they’d actually bought it. A couple of years later, it was gone to make room for the big screen TV.