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

That reminds me of another game that Dave dug up called Chase the Chuck Wagon, which was just about as bad as it got for Atari, where a dog chases the wagon from the Chuck Wagon commercials.

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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: A Partial History of Action Figures

I guess that's what Star Wars was going to try at first, but they lost too much detail on the figure.

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

So they went to, I think, an injection molding process.

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

It's a branded game.

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

But with rotational molding, you've got a mold, and it's on this computerized arm, and this arm just kind of spins around inside an oven.

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

Yeah, who would have thought?

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

And then it would poop out food and the dog would eat the food.

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

That was the point of the game.

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

You should speak a little bit about Zelda, though, The Legend of Zelda.

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

And inside the arm is like powdered plastic resin, and I guess it just melts it by kind of slowly spinning it around.

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

That's a game, again, that by the time that came out, it felt like a kid's thing.

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

And again, we couldn't afford an NES.

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

I don't understand what the problem is, but I guess injection molding is far superior.

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

So what was Zelda all about?

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

So I never liked Zelda.

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

Yeah, I guess so.

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

I mean, the deal with injection molding, they pump it into two pieces, and then they apply pressure to those two pieces to mold them together while it cools and hardens.

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

Oh, interesting.

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

It did something to my mind or my brain that was not comfortable.