“Fantasy games capture imagination” in 1980
July 20, 1980. This 1980 newspaper article by Terry Kirkpatrick comes at the early edge of the Dungeons & Dragons...
Year: 2017
“Dateline: Robotech” in 1986
Here we see a few different battlegrip.com subjects align in a strange sort of way. This two-page spread from Gateways...
2006 G.I. Joe Hasbrotoyshop.com Advertisement
Hasbro's "Direct to Consumer" G.I. Joe line (Amazon.com search*) was one attempt a decade ago to keep the G.I. Joe...
Kenner Six Million Dollar Man with Bionic Grip on Sale in 1977
November 27, 1977. This newspaper ad for a handful of Kenner's Six Million Dollar Man action figures follows a K-Mart...
Mekton Starstriker?
I've mentioned the Mekton Roadstriker supplement a few times before (ad, cover art), but I'd not heard of "Starstriker" until...
“Please return empty Coca-Cola bottles to your dealer.”
This 1944 Coca-Cola newspaper ad points at one of the company's biggest requirements of the war years: Recycling bottles so...
1990 BattleTech Mail Order Form
This single-page mail order form was found inside a copy of BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge, the 1990 BattleTech computer...
2006 DC Superheroes Advertisement: “City’s safe. All in a night’s work.”
The precursor to Mattel's DC Universe Classics action figure series (find at Amazon.com*), the DC Superheroes line actually shared a...
