For my kids it was trucks and cars for the oldest. Dinosaurs for the middle and books and Barbies for my daughter.
Also Baseball cards and Comic Books I am afraid to think about all the money I spent on those.
All loved the park, the beach. Watching movies on hot days with popcorn.
We played a lot of board games. Chutes and Ladders, Trouble, Monopoly, Risk, Checkers, Clue, Battleship, so many more I can't remember them all.
Lots of verbal word games.
Puzzles
Tons of sports.
And thousands of card games with popsicles and popcorn as snacks.
We still play board games especially Risk and Monopoly.
One toy I never allowed was a gun. Funny because both boys went into the military and daughter goes shooting all the time.