In 1977, Martin Abrams of the Mego toy corporation was in Japan negotiating with a company called Takara for the right to produce a version…
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Minibrix construction kits were manufactured from 1935 to 1976 in the UK by the Premo Rubber Company (a subsidiary of the I.T.S. Rubber Company), which…
Forget about buying pre-made souvenirs. In the future (and by “the future” we mean the 1950s), true souvenir connoisseurs would make their own, courtesy of…
Monchhichis have been around since the mid-70s in their native Japan, but the furry little critters didn’t spread around the world until the early 80s.…
Can anyone agree on a set of rules for playing Monopoly? The game of capitalist supremacy celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1975. Over 200 million games…
Monster-mania gripped America in the Sixties: There were monster movie marathons on TV; monster magazines like Famous Monsters and Monster World, and (to the consternation…
First released in 1963, this colourful, kooky trap game was complex, but a set of blueprints on the game board made sure even the youngest…
Manufactured by Japanese toy company Tomy, Mr DJ was the star of the British International Toy and Hobby Fair in 1987. Mr DJ was an…
Mr Machine was a robot-like mechanical man manufactured by the Ideal Toy Company that could be taken apart and reassembled without tools. In theory, at…
The Mr Potato Head story begins in New York City during the early 1950s. It was a modernised update of the ‘make a face’ toys…
“My Buddy, My Buddy, Wherever I go, he goes, My Buddy, My Buddy, I’ll teach him everything I know” So went one of the most…
It all started with a pony figure in 1981. Hasbro’s new toy wasn’t much to look at. Called ‘My Pretty Pony’, it was 10 inches…
The board game ‘Mystery Date’ was conceived by Marvin Glass, created by Henry Stan and released by Milton Bradley in 1965. Marketed to girls aged 6…
“The Nauga is ugly, but his vinyl hide is beautiful” In the 1960s and 1970s, you couldn’t turn on the TV in America without seeing…
It started with a dream – a dream of breaking one of the biggest no-no’s in the world: No playing ball in the house. Inventor…
The original first-person driving arcade game took players on an endless race to nowhere in 1976. Speed was the only object of Night Driver from…
Before there was Atari, before there was even Pong, there was the Odyssey. We take it for granted now, of course, but try to remember…
The key to successful surgery is a steady hand. Of course, it is also handy to have a patient whose nose lights up red when…
Released in 1976, Outlaw wasn’t the first arcade game to explore the Old West tradition of the shootout (Midway/Taito’s Gun Fight had done the same…
Released in 1984, Pac-Land was a video game based on a cartoon series based on a video game . . . The ghosts, the fruits…