Captain Power and Starcom in 1987
This Southeast Missourian newspaper ad from 1987 may be the worst Captain Power and Starcom advertisement ever. Where are the...
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Coleco’s Rambo Action Figures in 1986
November 26, 1986. This page from the Ottawa Citizen newspaper gives us another look at Coleco's Rambo action figure series....
Coleco’s Rambo Action Figures in 1986
We've already seen two old newspaper articles about Coleco's Rambo action figures ("Bernard Loomis Comments on Coleco’s “Rambo†Action Figures",...
1982 Ad for Coleco’s Tabletop Arcade Games
Back in the eighties we took our arcade games seriously, dumping quarter after quarter into machines and generating millions of...
“It’s not the toy business today.”
If you've read my two books about action figure marketing in the eighties -- Each Sold Separately* and Action Figures...
Zaxxon Artwork from March, 1983
The March, 1983 issue of Electronic Games Magazine includes this fantastic two-page spread showcasing the Coleco Zaxxon home cartridge. The...
1980 Coleco Catalog and the Star Trek Electronic Game
If you flip through the 1980 Coleco catalog (hosted at archive.org) then you're going to run across this two-page spread...
Bernard Loomis Comments on Coleco’s “Rambo” Action Figures
August 2, 1985. A New York Times article I found in the Washington, PA Observer-Reporter newspaper shares Coleco's plans to...
