Autobot Minicars and Cars on Sale in 1984 
G.I. Joe Battlefield Accessories and Action Figures at Osco 
Shockwave Only $9.99 in 1986! 
Arco’s Ro-Gun and Tomy’s Starriors on Sale in 1984 
BattleTech: Battlemaster 1987 Blueprint
Presented as a two-page spread in the first issue of Blackthorne's BattleForce and BattleTech comics in 1987, this blueprint for...
“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...
“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...