Pretending to be shipwrecked behind the black vinyl sofa á la Robinson Crusoe but slyly incorporating aspects of the Australian outback. Being brought up on classics doesn't limit imagination in my opinion, it fed mine.
Btw I was in North Belfast at the time in the height of the "Troubles".
Scalextric. We had a small lounge in our council house in Bradford and mum and dad fostered lots of children. So although Inwas an only child, I had a constant stream of "brothers and sisters" and we'd set up the figure of 8 and put on the scale model mini clubman racing cars and happily sit for hours with those star trek phaser like triggers whizzing or crashing the cars off the track....at least until we fell out and started scrapping and then mum would rule the roost and make us pack it all away
Who enjoyed playing clackers as a school child (strings and hard balls) ?