Target stores nationwide are carrying five limited-edition General Mills cereal boxes featuring fun “Retro” package designs and premium offers from the 60s and 80s. These will be in store until March 7. Now it pains me to hear these called ‘retro” as they’re the boxes I remember as a kid! I grew up on Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Trix, and Lucky Charms. I have fond memories of watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, eating my fav cereal, and being entertained by their commercials.
I also loved the free prizes inside, although being one of five kids, it wasn’t very easy to get one. I liked the mail in offers better because my siblings were more interested in the instant gratification and hated anything that took a little work. That left it open for me!
I no longer eat most of these cereals, having switched to natural or organic cereals, but when they sent me a box of each, I did sneak a taste or two before my oldest son finished them off. He didn’t seem to have a favorite, they all disappeared very quickly!
Retro on the left; current on the right
ENTER TO WIN! winner chosen
General Mills has provided me with 6 prize packages to share with you! Five different retro box prize packs and one grand prize, an Atari Game Console! Today is Cheerios day! To win a Cheerios prize pack, comment below your favorite childhood game. Then come every day for a chance to win additional prize packages and then we’ll choose one comment from all five days to receive the Atari prize package!
Comment below your favorite childhood game. Regular contest rules apply. Open to US residents only. Your information will be provided to General Mills and they will send you the prize pack directly. Contest ends 02/23/10 at 11:59 PM PST.
Disclosure: I received 5 boxes of cereal, a retro t-shirt, and $10 Target Gift Card. I am not expected to return them. Opinions are my own.
***WINNER CHOSEN**** Patricia Hill!
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Bingo was my favorite.
My favorite childhood game was Candyland.
My favorite childhood game was Monopoly.I always liked being the banker
My fave childhood game was Monopoly by far….
My favorite childhood game was Monopoly!
The Game of Life.
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Mouse Trap
Candyland and Monopoly have been constant favorites.
I can remember playing Candyland as a youngster and loved it!
We loved playing Careers and Masterpiece. Wonder if they still make those???
I used to love playint Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite game as a child was Life.
Hide and go seek was my favorite
I loved playing with my game merlin I wanted one so bad for christmas and when I got it I played with it forever
My favorite childhood game was pit-fall.
I loved Hugry Hungry Hippo!
my favorite childhood game was chinese jumprope.
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You don’t see it anymore but when I was growing up I was a Jacks professional.
Mousetrap is my favorite and I still like playing it!
We used to play Life all of the time!
Thanks
Monopoly was my favorite
We loved Monopoly!
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite game when I was younger was Super Mario on the old school Nintendo! Thanks for providing a great giveaway!
My favorite childhood game was Connect 4!
My favorite childhood game is candyland.
I always loved The Game of Life.
We loved boggle and monopoly!
i always love that game trouble with the plastic popper in the middle i used to love the clicking sound it made
My favorite game was Go Fish.
i loved connect four when I was a kid. that or candy land.
I used to love Connect Four!
My childhood favorite games were probably Parcheesi and The Game of Life — thanks!
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I love Monopoly.
My favorite game was the game of Life.
I always loved playing the card game War.
There are too many games that I used to love playing, but one of my top faves was Tetris on my Gameboy (both of which I still have). I’m currently playing the DS version. LoL.
I loved Twister.
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My favorite game was Monopoly. Thanks for the giveaway.
I loved playing Clue!
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mine was always Clue
My favorite game as a child was Candyland
monopoly
My favorite game was Operation!
Outdoors was kick ball and indoors was Candyland.
Chutes and ladders was my favorite board game.
monopoly
I was into video games and my favorite was Galaga.
The board game “Which Witch?” was my favorite!
My favorite game was Battleship!
My favorite game was Monopoly – and it still is
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My favorite board game was Monopoly. My favorite outdoor game was Hide and Go Seek.
I liked playing Candyland.
I loved Sorry!
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I liked to play Life and Trouble.
Twister was fun!
For my earliest years, I liked Uncle Wiggly (board game)
I was one of those kids who LOVED checkers! I would beg everyone to play with me and I thought it was the most fun I’d ever had!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I’m going to email my brother and remind him of my checkers challenges!
If memory serves – Monopoly was the only game we had when I was a kid.
I have loved clue for as long as I can remember!
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I had this Smurf board game that my sisters and I loved. Thanks for the chance.
My favorite childhood game was Go For Broke. Me and my mom would play almost everyday!
Candyland, and now I get to play it with our granddaughter.
We always loved playing monopoly, or sorry as a family.
Candy Land
We played Monopoly and Scrabble
I loved Scrabble, Upwords and Scattegories.
My favorite childhood game was Candyland! Thanks for the chance!
My favorite game was Monopoly we played every fridaynite as a family. Loved it!
I loved to play Life!
Cross Over the Bridge was my favorite board game when I was little. Thank you for the fun give-away.
As the oldest of six kids, I liked to play house, school, etc. Anything that allowed me to boss around my 5 siblings.
Candyland!
My favorite game was hop scotch.
My fav was LIFE.Don’t know why.
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My favorite game was kick the can
I loved Mastermind.
Aggravation was my favorite game.
I really liked Cootie Bugs!
we have always love scrabble.thanks
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I loved to play Uno. We used to put several decks together and play for hours. Sometimes we would have more than a dozen kids playing. There wasn’t much else to do in the summer in South Tx
I liked playing Hopscotch when I was young! Great giveaway! Thanks! Chrysa says:
I loved to play Careers!
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My favorite game was monopoly, but on Atari it was PITFALL!
My favorite game is Monoply. My kids like to play it too.
We liked Candy Land and later Scrabble.
My favorite was always Scrabble. My mom and I were crazy about it.
Chutes and Ladders was my favorite childhood game. As I got older, I started to love Scrabble!
I loved Asteroids.
My favorite childhood game was four squares. Four children play. With chalk or stone, a grid is made on the cement that has four squares. Each child stands in the square and throws the ball to one of the other children in the squares. The children never know which player will be thrown the ball. The constant throwing of the ball is the fun of the game. I played this at recess with my friends in junior high and loved it!
Mousetrap! Now I play it with my 4 kids.
Pacman!
I liked The Game of Life.
Our favorite game to play as a family as a kid was always Monopoly. It was also a favorite with my own family. We have 6 different versions that we still play a couple of times a month.
DARLA KIDDER says:
My favorite game as a kid was UNO.
Oh man, there are too many to list! We didnt have much as kids but we did have a deck of cards. My favorites were kings corners and crazy 8′s! My Grandma taught me well!
P.s Love the retro picture of the Cheerios box! I love seeing that stuff!
We played Monopoly almost weekly when I was younger.
as a kid life was fun and so was kismet
My favorite game was Monopoly! Thanks Cheerios for great products and supporting bloggers!