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

And then there was an Army one called Jackal.

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

And then if you liked skateboarding at the time, which I did, there was Skate or Die, which was pretty good.

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

And then once you have the molds, and you also have to make a decision when you're making the molds, do you want to make the torso and the legs together?

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

But my money was on Town and Country Designs Skate and Surf, I think it was called.

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

Is he going to move his arms?

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

If so, you probably want to do two different molds for the arms.

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

And you could skateboard and then you would go surf.

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

So there's a pretty decent amount of decision making work that goes into just coming up with what molds you're going to make.

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

And it was a lot of fun to play, too.

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

Yeah, I was so into the sports games, and I still play the PlayStation PGA 2K for their golf game.

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

And then once you make the molds, then yes, you have to make the molds, you have to operate them, and then you have to decide what kind of, what's the word I'm looking for, where you actually make the plastic figure.

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

It's still a lot of fun.

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

But I was addicted to the Atari beach volleyball game, wherein it was two players aside, and both players were connected to one another.

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

Molding, which I should have been able to come up with because we were talking about molds at the time.

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

They could not move independently.

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

So when you're moving your joystick around, they're both running in the exact same pattern.

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

That's right.

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

So there's different kinds.

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

I looked up one kind called rotational molding.

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

Yeah, that's hilarious.