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YoYo Balls


Submitted by Mugg, who could never quite master a real yo-yo

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CBS Storybreak


Submitted by Dandy Whiskers, who loved his special programs

From Wikipedia:

CBS Storybreak is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network during the 1985 season. Hosted by Captain Kangaroo’s Bob Keeshan (and in its 1993 return by The Cosby Show’s Malcolm Jamal-Warner), the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of some of the most beloved children’s books published at the time of airing, including How to Eat Fried Worms. Other episodes included Dragon’s Blood and Ratha’s Creature.

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The Action Max Console


Submitted by Rusty Castles, who demands a VHS-based console for quality

From Wikipedia:

Action Max is a console using VHS tapes for games. It was created in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder. The system required its owner to also have a VHS player, as the console did not have a way to play tapes itself. Using a light gun (or two for 2-player games) players would shoot at the screen. To make this work a red sensor first had to be connected to the television screen, which would flash a circle when something on the screen was targetable. The gaming was strictly point-based and dependent on shot accuracy. Players could not truly “lose” or “win” a game. This, along with the fact that the only real genre on the system were light gun games that played exactly the same way every time, greatly limited the system’s appeal and led to its quick downfall.

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Blip!


Submitted by Kristi A, who loves to grip it and blip it!

I loved this one when I was a kid….check out the advanced – almost futureistic – setup and font! ;) A handheld game dating to 1977, Blip was advertised as a portable digital electronic game; a go-anywhere version of Pong.

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Winnie The Pooh Overhead Projector


Submitted by Sarah J, who loves being a tracer

I had one of these when I was about 6 or so. The main concept is to pick a drawing from one of the film slides, place it in the top and turn it on, so it projected the image onto a piece of paper that you then could carefully copy & colour in. It then folds away into the convenient storage box! If I remember rightly, it also came in a Beauty and the Beast version too.

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Misfits Of Science


Submitted by Bobby Trendy, who gets his kicks from super science

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Misfits of Science is an American superhero fantasy television series that aired on NBC from October 1985 to February 1986. It featured a cast of super-powered humans and their madcap adventures. A double-length pilot and 15 additional episodes were created; all episodes but one were broadcast in the United States during its original run.

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Plastic Kool-Aid Mugs


Submitted by Deadly Dripper, who drinks his sugar water like a king

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Bigfoot Power Wheels


Submitted by Crusty Cravings, who loves to go fast

From Wikipedia:

Power Wheels is a brand of battery-powered ride-on toy cars for kids ages 12 months to seven years old. Power Wheels ride-ons are built with kid-sized, realistic features – in some cases, real working features like FM radios, opening/closing doors and hoods, power lock brakes, and both forward and reverse motion.

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Warriors Of The Wind


Submitted by Buster K, who soars upon the wind

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika?) is a 1984 post-apocalyptic Japanese anime film, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. The film has environmentalist undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984. While created before Studio Ghibli was founded, the film is considered to be the beginning of the studio, and is often included as part of the Studio’s works, including the Studio Ghibli Collection DVDs.[1] Among its numerous awards, it won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1984.

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The 7th Guest


Submitted by Cord R, who loves a good haunting

From Wikipedia:

The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993[4], is a FMV-based puzzle video game, not unlike The Fool’s Errand and predating Myst. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac. The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its unprecedentedly large amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. In addition, the game was very successful, with over two million copies sold, and is widely-regarded as a killer app that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives.

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