Micronauts In 1977, Martin Abrams of the Mego toy corporation was in Japan negotiating with a company called Takara for the…
Captain Action With a change of clothes and mask, Captain Action could alter his identity into some of the mightiest heroes on…
Stratego Simpler than chess, quicker than a game of Risk, Milton Bradley's Stratego was the strategy board game that young generals-in-training…
Scrabble Scrabble was invented in 1938 by unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts. Butts created the game as a variation of another…
KISS Pinball Machine In the late 1970s, celebrities became a popular theme for pinball machines. In fact, everyone from Ted Nugent to Evel…
Little Professor Calculator Calculators became portable during the 1970s following a breakthrough that enabled their development with just a few low-powered chips. In…
