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Philip Reed December 1, 2017

This 1982 newspaper advertisement comes from before the crash of the Atari video game system, though the warning signs are...

Philip Reed November 22, 2017

December 19, 1980. Monopoly and Boggle are classified as staples, evergreens, annual sellers that holiday shoppers expect to find in...

Philip Reed November 21, 2017

I've mentioned the Mille Bornes* card game before (back in 2016), but that older post was an advertisement for Touring,...

Philip Reed October 30, 2017

This 1980 newspaper ad shows us how much Battlestar Galactica had lost at retail by the start of the decade....

Philip Reed September 15, 2017

Decipher's Star Wars CCG of the nineties (find at Amazon.com*) found an entirely new audience when Parker Brothers worked with...

Philip Reed September 7, 2017

Back when this 1979 newspaper ad was new, many of the boardgames sold in stores were the same classics that...

Philip Reed September 7, 2017

The past keeps on giving! This 1986 newspaper ad for various Parker Brothers toys and games has the usual --...

Philip Reed April 20, 2017

This newspaper ad comes from October 31, 1978, and features such toy greats as the Barbie Dream House, See 'N...

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