There was a season for different Street games. There was a period where all we did was play with tops, some of my friends could make them spin seems like forever. I was never really good at spinning them but I enjoyed trying.
I had those. Then a company came out with plastic ones with a battery, a light and a centrifugal switch...it was probably Duncan. I believe mine had a white body with a clear orange/amber cap.
In the '50s we had a cap bomb or some called as a cap grenade. Later they came out with a cap rocket.
We take the whole roll and put it on the sidewalk and hit it with a hammer or whatever else we had like a rock.