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The only thing to fear was the sphere itself
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:28 pm
by Dedman
I found
this and thought I would share for nostalgia sake
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:51 pm
by Mr. Perfect
Super Balls ® 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 ® were common to the fad, but were not enough to dampen enthusiasm.
Today the same thing would bring about lawsuits and bans.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:56 pm
by Hahnenkam
Heh
From the title of the thread, I thought this was about Phantasm.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:02 pm
by Hattrick
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 ® were common to the fad"
Ahhhh, the memories!
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:25 pm
by Darkside Heartless
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.......
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:54 pm
by Mobius
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!
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:12 pm
by Tyranny
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:49 pm
by Avder
Dammit, now I want one.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:39 pm
by Mr. Perfect
We can still get "bouncy balls" in America, though I'm not sure they're made of the same rubber as these particular balls.
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:39 pm
by Boo
3 story high bounce
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:37 pm
by roid
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
)
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:30 pm
by Top Gun
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:29 am
by Ferno
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.