They just don’t make good marble slot hole games like they used to. I clearly remember this commercial being effective enough to make me ask for it for a birthday present. It was pretty fun, but my sister rarely wanted to play it , so like most multi-player games, it just sat in my closet. [...]
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Remco’s Baby Laugh A Lot Commercial … Pure Evil!
February 27th, 2010 
rberry Wow! I’m a bit late to the Baby Laugh A Lot craze, as there appears to be several weird remixes of this on YouTube, but ho-lee crap this is one scary ass commercial.
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Unintentionally Funny Commercials #2: Mr. Bucket
February 25th, 2010 rberry Love this one a lot! “Put your balls in my top, and out my mouth they will pop!” It doesn’t get any better than that!
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Deadly Toys of Yesteryear
February 16th, 2010 rberry I originally wrote this article about 10 years ago and thought it would be interesting to bring back amidst the countless dangerous toys made in China that have made the news in recent weeks. See, when I was a kid, our toys were dangerous because of misuse. At least kids from my time had a [...]
Heroes In Action (1975)
January 27th, 2010 rberry I was 6 years old when Mattel released these back in 1975, and they seemed like the coolest thing ever on the TV commercial. Each figure was animated when you moved a lever back and forth. My friend David Dowdy had a few of these, and though they looked neat, it was clear that the [...]
Real Life Bananaphones!
January 22nd, 2010 rberry I can only imagine what sort of banana related gizmos the fine folks at Chiquita Marketing were pitching before they settled on Banana Walkie Talkies. This was a comic book ad from 1980.
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X-Rated Atari Games
January 21st, 2010 rberry Though it’s hard to believe, somebody once thought that the incredibly crude graphics from the Atari 2600 videogame system from the late 70s was just the place to showcase adult videogames. Sure there’s been sexy tease scenes and nubile volleyball players jiggling about in modern videogames, but a company Mystique made games [...]
Gre-Gory The Big Bad Vampire Bat!
January 21st, 2010 rberry Here’s a great ad from 1980 for Gre-Gory The Big Bad Vampire Bat. Like many toys, he was big and fearsome, but also…HE’S FUN! Much like the Pulsar action figure that pumped blood, Gre-Gory had an exposed chest with a full working circulatory system. Unfortunately, like many toys with fluid inside of them (like Real [...]
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No Comments »The Worst Lunchboxes Of All Time
October 20th, 2009 rberry I was one of those kids that always had shitty lunchboxes. Once I had a great Planet of the Apes box back round 75, but it was lost about as quickly as I got it. [...]
A look at the 1978 Atari Catalog
October 4th, 2009 rberry Ahhhh, 1978! Atari was emerging as a video game giant with their 2600 VCS system that thrilled millions oblivious hi-def, internet connected, motion controller future that awaited 30 years later. These were times that [...]
Mars Attacks!
October 3rd, 2009 rberry One of the single coolest mayhem filled adventures of all time is contained in the 1962 Mars Attacks trading cards from Topps. Taking H.G. Wells’ WAR OF THE WORLDS concept to an insane extreme, Mars Attacks was just unadulterated pure mayhem. They were only available for a short time in stores when they first appeared, [...]
Posted in Movies, Television, and DVDs, Spooky Stuff, Toys and Videogames Tags: mars attacks 2 Comments »Why I Hate Transformers
September 16th, 2009 rberry With all the new attention and revival of all things 80s, the one thing I’m most sickened to see is the renewed interest in TRANSFORMERS. I never liked this cartoon. I never liked the toys. And I certainly never liked the GO-BOTS, ORBOTS, or the other ripoff ilk they spawned.
As a toy, I always felt [...]