If you're of the age when you remember playing with Jarts — plastic lawn darts with metal points — coveting a Cabbage Patch Doll and carrying a large boombox, then congratulations! Some of your ...

Lawn darts, or Jarts, were all the rage in the 1980s. With a few Jarts, a few friends, and a few beers, American backyard-barbecue-goers would lay down small plastic hoops as targets and play a game ...

Lawn Darts were a game from a simpler, more naive time. Sure, they could embed themselves in your little sister’s head just as easily as the lawn, but they were fun. Now they’re back. They’re back ...

Typically, outdoor summer lawn games include bocce, volleyball, cornhole, etc. All of these games have been synonymous with beer, barbecues and fun rivalries. While these games are all well and good, ...

This post is part of Mashable's You're Old Week. Break through the haze of nostalgia with us and see what holds up, what disappoints, and what got better with time. There are a lot of dangerous ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Jarts, the lawn dart game apparently invented by Satan. Jarts consisted of two small hula hoops, or "targets." Also included in the package were four to eight ...

I don’t remember thinking much about how dangerous Jarts could be. I mean, when you’re riding around in a 1965 Plymouth Valiant without seatbelts driven by your 17-year-old brother, and you’re walking ...

Ah, the early 1970s. A time when cars may or may not have had seat belts, and there were certainly no car seats for the little ones to ride safely. A time when one of the hottest toys were the ...