What??? A boy playing with a doll??? Are you insane? These weren’t dolls, they were ‘Action Figures’. There’s a big difference . . . Dolls are for girls, action figures are for boys, okay?
Video Pinball Despite some industry fears, video didn’t kill the pinball star. Flipper-fuelled action had been an arcade mainstay since long before…
WWF Action Figures Action figures had many faces in the early 80s - the blonde brawn of He-Man, the buzz-cut ruggedness of G.I.…
Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure If there was ever a television series that demanded a toy line for its merchandise, it was The Six Million…
Donkey Kong The video game Donkey Kong was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and is owned by Nintendo. It follows the adventures of…
Zaxxon 1982 gamers had never seen anything like Sega/Gremlin’s Zaxxon. Players had flown spaceships into strafing raids and interstellar dogfights before,…
Evel Knievel toys Ideal Toys, the major manufacturer of Evel Knievel toys, got their start in the Knievel business in 1972 when they…
Star Wars Figures Director George Lucas passed up an extra $500,000 in director fees when he made Star Wars (1977) in exchange for retaining…
Intellivision It was an Atari world back in the late 70s and early 80s, but Mattel’s Intellivison staged a pretty good coup.…
