The 10 best presents 80s kids got for Christmas

Nintendo Console hit Europe in 1987, one of the grandparents of modern gaming. NNL-151221-155250001

Time-honoured tradition dictates that this Christmas morning thousands of wide eyed children will bolt out of bedrooms and shoot down the stairs to see what the ‘Big Man’ dropped off.

Carefully-wrapped presents will be torn asunder to reveal everything from Nintendo DS and PS4 consoles and games, to sought-after toys such as Disney Descendants, Pieface game, BB8 from Star Wars and Paw Patrol.

Till then, we thought we’d go on a bit of a time warp.

After dusting down our checked jeans and slip-ons, crimping our hair, and donning the ear muffs and leg warmers, we have headed up to raid out the attic with the sole purpose of bringing you some of the toys which topped wish lists for Santa during that decade.