The only thing to fear was the sphere itself

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:28 pm

I found this and thought I would share for nostalgia sake

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:51 pm

Super Balls Â® encouraged wholesome, boyish, childhood-revisited kind of fun. The only thing to fear was the sphere itself. The ball was so resilient and picked up so much reverse spin that it didn't catch easily. After slamming one into a wall you might have to duck or be struck. Black eyes and welts, about the circumference of a Super Ball Â® were common to the fad, but were not enough to dampen enthusiasm.

Today the same thing would bring about lawsuits and bans.

Hahnenkam · Post by **Hahnenkam** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:56 pm

Heh

From the title of the thread, I thought this was about Phantasm.

Hattrick · Post by **Hattrick** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:02 pm

Hahnenkam wrote:Heh

From the title of the thread, I thought this was about Phantasm.

X2

"Black eyes and welts, about the circumference of a Super Ball Â® were common to the fad"

Ahhhh, the memories!

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:25 pm

My dad gave me a VERY old one of those. it was his when he was a kid, that sucker would bounce off anything

I lost it though, I wanted to see what it would do off a baseball bat.......

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:54 pm

You mean you can't buy them any more in the USA? o_O

Hell, at any toy story here there must be 5 different brands in 5 different sizes!

I remember having a collection of superballs (Actually, I still have TWO!

) and remember having a lot of fun with them. I stills ee kids at playgrounds and car parks smashing them round the place.

THEY ARE COOL!

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:12 pm

You can buy them if you can find them. They don't make them here anymore. The fad ran its course and people moved on to the next cool thing.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:49 pm

Dammit, now I want one.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:39 pm

We can still get "bouncy balls" in America, though I'm not sure they're made of the same rubber as these particular balls.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:39 pm

3 story high bounce

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:37 pm

i've never played with one of these trademarked SuperBalls(tm) before. but something fun to do with any rubber-bouncy-ball-thing is play a strange game of squash (you know, on a squash court) with them.

with crappy balls you are eventually left with no ball, but splinters of rubber all over the court (all over the premises really, squash courts generally arn't completely sealed on all sides

)

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:30 pm

I didn't even realize that there was an actual Superball-brand ball...I've only known the little rubber ones like those you can find in the coin-dispensed machines in Wal-mart. Even those are fun, though. Try hitting one of the larger ones with a metal baseball bat...never gets old.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:29 am

Kids also took up baseball bats and entertained Ruthian fantasies by hitting sub-orbital shots.

ROFL.. i can imagine some kid just destroying the ball in LA and have it end up in Portland.