The gameplay of Warlords (from Interplay) revealed the strong Dungeons & Dragons role-playing influence on the generation of game programmers throughout the early 1980s. These…
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In 1968, Charles Prior Hall, a furniture designer in California decided to create the world’s most comfortable chair. Taking his cue from the very popular…
Wayfinders were approved by the Scout Association and featured patterns on the soles, including animal tracks (to help you recognise the tracks of the potter,…
“Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down” The minute they came to town in 1969, Romper Room’s Weebles gave Fisher Price’s Little People a run…
Wendy Emerton – later to take the stage name Richard – was born in Middlesbrough on 20 July 1943. Later, her parents moved to London…
Developed in 1970 by Bob’s Space Racers, the anger-abating coin-operated game Whac-a-Mole did exactly what it said on the tin! There were five holes out of…
Toys of the 1950s often look very simplistic compared to modern ones, yet many toys from this era have endured and continue to populate toy…
The 1980s was responsible for many strange fashion innovations. One of which – for reasons forever unknown – was the sudden rise in popularity of…
This children’s comic from Fleetway was launched on 18 October 1969. It absorbed Knockout (1973), Krazy (1978) and Whoopee! (1985) before finally being merged with Buster on 27 October 1990. Whizzer and Chips…
It all began when the producers of the two-year-old Dallas devised a cliff-hanger ending to their popular super soap. “Who shot J R Ewing?” was a…
This IPC comic ran from 1974 to 1985, absorbing Shiver and Shake, Cheeky Weekly and Wow! over the years. It eventually merged with Whizzer and Chips in 1985. Popular strips included: Ad…
For eight years, if you were into Northern Soul, there was only one place you wanted to go: Wigan Casino. At 2.00 am on Sunday…
1 9 0 8 – 1 9 8 8 McMahon was born in Sydney, Australia. He graduated in law and economics from Sydney University and…
Winklepickers: such a strange name for the pointy-toed shoe of the 50s and 60s. To understand the lore behind the winkle picker shoe, you, dear…
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England – the seat of his grandfather the 7th Duke of…
“Fight me! I am the Wizard of Wor!” Part Pac-Man, part Alien, part Dungeons and Dragons, Bally Midway’s Wizard of Wor took gamers down into…
This weekly boys’ story paper was published by DC Thomson from 22 September 1922 to September 1963. It was relaunched in 1970 as a comic…
The Spinfire, the Mach-1, the Night Winder, the Prowler, the Wedge and the Bonehead. Excepting (maybe) the Bonehead, this reads like a list of manoeuvres…
“Good guys, playing for you, We’re more laughs than a trip to the zoo Here where the fun never quits, Dial us good guys first…
The first-person shooter game Wolfenstein 3D (created by id Software) was released on 5 May 1992 for DOS by Apogee Software and FormGen. The game…