Parker Brothers video games were tied with Activision for my favourite games in 1983. I had a lot of these and the ones I didn’t have? I wanted. My top five PB video games would be: 1) Tutankhamen (to be fair next to Shinobi, this may be my favourite game ever) 2) Amidar 3) […]
The Odyssey video game system was the #1 choice of dads who purchased a video disk player instead of a VCR. Don’t forget to join our new facebook group. Get the expanded digital edition of Rack Toys here.
I had three of the four games on this page, I’ll leave it to your imagination which one I passed on.
Parker Brothers really seemed to dominate my video game purchases in the early eighties and seeing this toyfair ad from ’83 made me smile. They had my favourite arcade game of all time (Tutankham) and the Star Wars license, so my loyalty was assured… If I didn’t have one of their games, it surely was […]
My heart belongs to a woman whose heart once belonged to Bo. Sometimes I’m a bit suspicious…
Seeing that it’s close to Christmas, let’s take a trip back 30 years and see what toys were on special with the 1981 Child World Flyer, celebrating the best playthings that 1981 had to offer. You’ll find a lot of familiar faces in this one including Star Wars figures, Mego Superheroes, Intellivision, Jordache dolls, Fisher […]
An open message to all children of the 1990s, this is what we had and we liked it dammit! Sure, Super Mario was cool but did his console have a wood grain finish? I didn’t think so…
The Oddessey by Magnavox (the TV people) was the world’s first home gaming system, it came with plastic sheets you could put over your TV to simulate colour game play. I found one of these in my aunt’s basement one day around 1980, even though it was only a few years old it looked like […]
I am a veteran of the video game wars, fought mostly on my schoolyard. I, being of the clan of Atari, waged daily combat against those who had sworn allegiance to George Plimpton and quoted from the Book of Mattel. Mostly about how much superior the Intellivision system really was. I can remember HATING kids […]
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