1980

Philip Reed March 18, 2016

Here's a 1980 newspaper ad showing off the Buck Rogers Draconian Marauder toy that we saw yesterday, and the thought...

Philip Reed March 18, 2016

I've mentioned Milton Bradley's Big Trak toy before (Byte magazine article, Starlog magazine appearance), and during yesterday's visit to Rogue...

Philip Reed March 17, 2016

I've mentioned the Interplanetary Star Fortress playset before (posted here), and even wrote about the toy in Each Sold Separately*,...

Philip Reed March 10, 2016

I shared two newspaper ads for this old game last year (1981 advertisement, 1983 advertisement), and despite being fairly certain...

Philip Reed March 7, 2016

It's amazing what a few years can do. This 1980 newspaper article, written by David Diamond for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, offers...

Philip Reed March 6, 2016

The Spirograph (find at Amazon.com*), this time in a 1980 newspaper advertisement from The Deseret News on December 15, 1980....

Philip Reed February 23, 2016

I've still not located that issue of Fantasy Modeling that includes an article on Kenner's Star Wars Mini-Rigs (mentioned here),...

Philip Reed February 22, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, back when TSR was making a killing with their Dungeons & Dragons line of...

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