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The 2-XL was a “robot with a personality” manufactured and released by Mego Corp. in 1978. This small ‘talking’ robot came complete with an 8-track…

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This weekly British science fiction-oriented comic was first published by IPC Magazines in February 1977. IPC owned the rights to Dan Dare and decided to…

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“Skate or Die!” With its funky circular joystick and boom box cabinet, there was no mistaking 720° in your local arcade. Starring a brightly-attired slacker…

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Ice hockey enthusiast Bob Lemieux dreamed up this popular table game for billiards manufacturers Brunswick back in 1972. Almost instantly, the craze spread across the…

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Just before the outbreak of World War II, Nicholas Kove, a Hungarian living in Britain, was making inflatable rubber toys. He called his company Airfix.…

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In the mid-1950’s, Milton Levine was enjoying Fourth of July festivities in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, when the ant minions that he was watching…

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In the years after Star Wars (1977), anything involving outer space, zippy interstellar craft and dangerous battles was golden. Into this arena of sci-fi fantasy came…

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