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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And some stuff that may delight you.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

That's a working title, huh?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

My roommate had one, so that's where I first started playing Super Mario World.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, but we're talking about action figures.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

That's the point of what I think that exercise just was.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And I played stuff like Tetris and Mario and the Game Boy that my brother had.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, I was going to say everything you wanted to know, but this, I mean, we could do.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I'm sure there are entire podcasts on action figures.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

But I've never owned a Nintendo before.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

For sure.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, and if you have a podcast on action figures, write in.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Well, I can tell you that Nintendo came out, and I was 10, 11 years old, not driving yet.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Let us know.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

We'll tweet it out for the people whose boat this floated.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Wheelhouse.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And I owned one, too.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

This one definitely follows in the vein of the Barbie episode, which I have to say is one of my perennial favorites.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So it was definitely in my wheelhouse.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Yeah, I mean, later in college, my good friend Clay got the first PlayStation, and that's where we started going with Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.