1. Granite Guy
   Pet Rock
2. Flint Friend
   Stone Solider

The creator of the Pet Rock made more than a million dollars selling these seemingly simple toys in the '70s. Of course, the secret was all in the marketing; each Pet Rock came in a box complete with straw bedding and air holes, plus a guidebook called "The Care and Training of Your Pet Rock."

1. Little People
   Tree Tots
2. Monchichi
   Weebles

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down! At least, that's the promise Hasbro made when these cute children's toys were introduced in 1971. Designed to resemble everything from people to cartoon characters, Weebles also came with cool play sets, such as a Haunted House, Tree House and Camper.

1. Rubber Ranger
   Stretch Armstrong
2. Elastic Edward
   Simon

Here's the secret—that stuff that allowed you to extend Stretch Armstrong a a full 4 to 5 feet was nothing more than boiled corn syrup! Introduced by Kenner in 1976, Stretch Armstrong was re-released in 2016 by Hasbro to appeal to nostalgic toy lovers.

1. Little People
   Weebles
2. Micronauts
   Lego

Inspired by the Japanese line of Microman toys, Micronauts action figures were made of metal and plastic and stood just under 4-inches tall. They tended to have more movable parts than many other figures of the period, and included plenty of futuristic and space designs—like robots and aliens.

1. Roller skates
   Unicycle
2. Scooter
   Skateboard

Skateboarding got its start in the '50s, but it wasn't until the '70s when this toy became a mainstream hit. Longboards were hugely popular during the decade, though younger kids often scooted around on their bottoms rather than on two feet like the pros.

1. Atari 2600
   Nintendo Entertainment System
2. Sega Genesis
   Playstation

In 1977, Atari introduced the 2600 system. Priced at around $200—that's close to $800 today—the 2600 was one of the first home gaming systems to play interchangeable games using ROM cartridges. Some early Atari units were packaged with "Combat," while others came with the classic "Pac-Man."

1. Colorwheel
   Match Game
2. Simon
   Joe

Marketed with the tagline "My Name is Simon," Simon was a huge hit among '70s kids. In the days before video games were widespread, this seemingly simple game wit its patterns of lights and sounds was way more cutting edge than many other toys of the time.

1. G.I. Joe Action Figures
   Star Wars Action Figures
2. Bionic Man Action Figures
   Evel Knievel Action Figures

In 1977. a little sci-fi flick called "Star Wars: A New Hope" hit theaters: perhaps you've heard of it? Kenner produced a line of action figures to accompany the movie—with Luke, Leia, Chewbacca and R2D2 among the earliest options—but struggled to meet huge demand. By 1985, more than 300 million Star Wars Action Figures had been sold to eager kids.

1. Shrinky Dinks
   Color and Carry
2. Creature Critters
   Colorforms

Colorforms consist of vinyl stickers that can be reused again and again. In addition to standard shapes and letters, sets released in the '70s included a "Star Trek" theme, a "David Cassidy" set and a "Sesame Street" version for the younger set.

1. Tic Tac Toe Drop
   Checker Wrecker
2. Dropline
   Connect Four

Toy maker Milton Bradley came out with Connect Four in 1974. Players took turns dropping red or black checkers into a plastic frame in an attempt to score four in a row—and taking Tic Tac Toe to a whole new level.

1. Barbie Dream House
   Tree Tots Family Tree House
2. Swiss Family Robinson Tree House
   Sunshine Family Dollhouse

The Tree Tots Family Tree House was a beloved '70s classic. This pop-up tree top could be closed to keep the figures and furniture contained, or lifted up for easy access at playtime. It even came with a special dog bush for the pet canine, Barky.

1. Nerf Ball
   Magic-8 Ball
2. Roboball
   Foosball

Made from polyurethane foam, the Nerf Ball was marketed as the World's First Official Indoor Ball when it came out in 1970. By the next year, the company had sold more than a million units to parents who were sick of kids breaking things while playing with harder balls in the house.

1. Pitfall
   Pac-Man
2. Pong
   Bing

Pong came out in the arcade in 1972. By 1975, a home version, known simply as Pong Home, was released just in time for Christmas. It was sold only at Sears and quickly spawned dozens of imitators.

1. Electronic Football
   Game Boy
2. Atari Switch
   Peewee Player

Before the Game Boy or the Nintendo Switch, Mattel's handheld '70s games were all the rage. In the 1977 LED version of Electronic Football, kids followed a bright dot representing the quarterback across a 10-yard field. An upgrade the next year—cleverly called Football II—added a passing option to the mix.

1. Magic Blackboard
   Lite-Brite
2. Rainbow Brite
   View Master

Introduced in 1967, Lite-Brite became a huge hit by the '70s. A simple light bulb illuminated a box covered by black paper. By pressing translucent colored pegs through the paper, kids created glowing designs using templates or their own imaginations.

1. Colorforms
   Lite-Brite
2. Etch-a-Sketch
   Magna Doodle

Introduced in 1974, Magna Doodle was a liquid-filled message board that used magnetic particles to capture words or pictures. Since the '70s, more than 40 million Magna Doodles have found their way into the hands of happy kids.

1. Red Baron Shaved Iced Maker
   Snoopy Sno-cone Machine
2. Charlie Brown Baking Set
   Lucy and Linus's Snowball Stand

After baking a cake with their Easy Bake Oven, '70s kids could turn a crank on their Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine to grind ice cubes into a snowball. While this toy has been around since the '60s, it had a Frosty the Snowman theme until 1979, when Hasbro elected to use a Peanuts motif.

1. Speak & Spell
   See and Say
2. Mike and Ike
   My Spelling Pal

One of the earliest electronic handhelds with interchangeable cartridges, the Speak and Spell came out in 1978. Thanks to letter and number buttons and an electronic display, it helped kids learn to read and spell more than 200 tough words.

1. Sunshine Family Doll House
   Tree Tots Family Tree House
2. Barbie Dreamhouse
   Sesame Street Playhouse

In 1975, Fisher Price took steps to compete with Hasbro's popular Weebles by introducing the Sesame Street Playhouse. Inspired by the beloved Jim Henson creation, the play set came complete with the familiar apartment building, a street sign, a garbage truck and even a nest for Big Bird.

1. Speed Square
   Rubik's Cube
2. Bruce's Box
   Stan's Square

Professor Erno Rubik introduced his iconic Magic Cube in 1974. By the end of the decade, the toy had been named the Rubik's Cube in honor of its creator, and more than 350 million have since been sold. And if you need some motivation to dust yours off, there's this— the record for solving a 3x3 cube in less than 7 seconds.

1. Baby Alive
   Cricket Doll
2. Baby All Gone
   Love-A-Bye Baby

Introduced by Kenner in 1973, Baby Alive chowed down on food packets then eliminated the food by peeing, pooping or throwing up—requiring diaper changes and plenty of other cleanup. Thankfully, technology changes in future models of the toy eliminated the throwing up option.

1. Daisy Duke Action Figure
   Princess Leia Action Figure
2. Barbie Doll
   Bionic Woman Action Figure

The success of "The Six-Million Dollar Man" inspired a spin-off about Steve Austin's girlfriend. Like many '70s series, the "Bionic Woman" series came with its own line of action figures, including the title character herself, as well as her arch-enemy the Fembot.

1. The Sunshine Family
   Weebles
2. Little People
   Tree Tots

Little People came out in 1950, but were hugely popular by the '70s. These chunky little figures came with play sets like a barn or firehouse, and were officially known as the Play Family People. Parents and kids referred to them as Little People for many years before the name was finally changed in the '80s.

1. Magna Doodle
   Shrinky Dinks
2. Colorforms
   Etch-a-Sketch

Shrinky Dinks came out in 1973 and are still delighting kids today. Made from sheets of polystyrene, they can be colored in and baked—including in an Easy Bake Oven!—where they will shrink to a third of their original size, retaining their color and design.

1. Tiny TV
   View Master
2. Micro Machine
   Robonauts

The View-Master came out in 1939, but was designed to provide a glimpse of travel sites for adult users. By the '70s, it was being marketed to kids, along with reels or disks featuring images from cartoons.

1. Chatter Phone
   My Talking Telephone
2. Phone-a-Friend Telephone
   Walking Talking Telephone

Fisher-Price came out with its Talk-Back Phone—also known as the Chatter Telephone—in 1962. When pulled by a string, the phone made a chattering sound and raised its eyes up and down, delighting young kids over the decades. In 2000, the company switched from a rotary design to a push-button style to keep up with the times.

1. Marla Doll
   Pippa Doll
2. Kate Doll
   Jill Doll

The Pippa doll and her friends, Marie, Tammie and Britt were smaller and more affordable alternatives to Barbie and other full-sized fashion dolls of the decade. Pippa and friends had countless clothing options, a car and an apartment, as well as several other play sets to choose from before they were discontinued in 1980.

1. Smack 'em Rack 'em Robots
   Smash 'em Mash 'em Robots
2. Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots
   Bust 'em Rust 'em Robots

Seventies kids will remember that buzz as one robot's head popped up on Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Though this game came out in the '60s, it got an outer space makeover in the '70s to take advantage of the "Star Wars" craze, resulting in the short-lived game Clash of the Cosmic Robots.

1. Crissy Doll
   Lola Doll
2. Kid Sister
   Janey Doll

Move over Barbie—the Chrissy Doll was an 18-inch tall redhead produced by the Ideal Toy Company between 1969 and 1974. Pushing a knob on her back allowed you to retract her hair, while a button on her belly could be released to make her hair long again.

1. Barbie Doll
   Jill Doll
2. American Girl Doll
   Baby Alive

Barbie hit toy store shelves in 1959 sporting a black and white bikini. The '70s saw the introduction of Malibu Barbie, with loose blonde locks, a three-story Townhouse play set and Teresa—the first Hispanic Barbie doll.

1. Future Seeker
   Magic 8-Ball
2. Rubik's Ball
   Nerf Ball

Introduced by Mattel in the '50s, the Magic 8 Ball was the perfect tool for decision-making—or attempting to see the future. A isocahedron floating in blue alcohol answered yes-or-no questions with replies like "Outlook Hazy" or "Ask Again Later."

1. G.I. Joe
   Star Wars Action Figure
2. Evel Knievel Action Figures
   My Soldier

G.I. Joe got an update in 1970 as Adventure Team Joe, an attempt to reduce the whole military connection as the Vietnam War raged. This version of the toy was designed for exploring jungles and deserts rather than going to battle. The '70s also brought movable "eagle eyes" and a "Kung-Fu Grip" to the toy.

1. My Little Kitchen
   Caker Maker
2. Easy Bake Oven
   Creepy Crawlers

Kenner introduced the Easy Bake Oven in 1963 and sold half a million units that first year. By the '70s, countless kids were mixing up a cake to bake under the of-so-efficient heat of a single incandescent light bulb.

1. Battleship
   Boggle
2. Scrabble
   Yahtzee

Still being produced today, Boggle came out in 1972 to test our spelling skills. It came with 16 dice with letters on each side. By spilling the dice into a 4x4 grid, players could quickly search for words among the letters and see who could find the most before time ran out.

1. Micronauts
   Star Wars Action Figures
2. Dukes of Hazzard Action Figures
   Evel Knieval Action Figures

You couldn't find a building or natural wonder that Evel Knievel wasn't trying to jump over in the '70s. The popularity of this stuntman led Ideal Toys to introduce the Evel Knievel Action Figure in the '70s, followed by a stunt cycle for the toy in '76. Play sets like a Stunt Stadium and Skull Canyon set quickly followed.

1. Etch-a-Sketch
   Magna Doodle
2. Spirograph
   Lite-Brite

Spirograph has been around in various forms since around 1900, but it wasn't introduced as a toy set until Kenner released it in 1965. By the '70s, kids were using the geared wheels to create curves known as hyprotrochoids and epitrochoids—not that most users ever knew that's what they were drawing!

1. Potato Pet
   Mr. Potato Head
2. Spuds MacKenzie
   Johnny Applehead

Mr. Potato Head started out as a set of parts kids could stick into a real potato. It got its plastic shell in the '60s, and doubled in size in the '70s to meet new toy safety standards.

1. Torpedo Town
   Bombardment
2. Battleship
   Mastermind

Milton Bradley introduced Battleship—where a pair of opponents attempt to guess the location of a plastic ship—in 1967. By 1977, the game had become so popular that the company came out with an electronic version, complete with lights and explosion sound-effects when a ship got struck.

1. Crater Critters
   Boglins
2. Critter in my Pocket
   My Little Pony

Made in Australia, more than a billion Crater Critters were shipped around the world in the '70s, and most ended up in boxes of Kellogg's Cereal. These bug-like space creatures are hugely collectible to this day among kids who always lost the cereal prize to older siblings.

1. Baby Alive
   Jill Doll
2. American Girl Doll
   Dawn Doll

Produced between 1970 and 1973, the pint-sized Dawn Doll managed to make quite a splash among kids despite her short stature. Smaller than Barbie, Dawn was a model at the creatively-named Dawn Model Agency. Children could also put Dawn and her friends in play sets such as Dawn's Beauty Parlor or Dawn's Disco—hey, it was the '70s, after all.