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

Like, the stuff they're making today is amazing.

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

But I think Zelda is kind of regarded as, or The Legend of Zelda, as one of the first open world, like really good open world games, I guess.

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

Sure.

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

But it's almost too good, you know what I mean?

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

Like, yeah, there's some amazing stuff out there, but that was one of the great things about these, especially the three and three quarter inch guys.

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

Right.

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

An advanced one.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century

Hey, just finished drawing up that quick one-page business plan for you.

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

And it was by the same guy who did Super Mario Brothers, so that's not surprising.

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

They were meant to be played with.

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

They were meant to have imagination bestowed on them and little child's hands.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century

Here's the link.

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

Yeah.

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

What else you got, Chuck?

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

I mean, not a whole lot else.

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

It's not supposed to sit on your desk at work or something like that and just as adornment.

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

I guess we should definitely talk about blowing in those cartridges because I even made that joke before we recorded because my microphone wasn't working.

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

Like, they were meant to be played with, and they were...

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

And Dave, who's sitting in for Jerry, said, unplug the cable and just plug it back in.

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

subtly downgraded from you know the stuff that's out today downgraded to an upgrade yes like John Hodgman is literally screaming right now into his earbuds because we're nostalgic about something that was sorry John decidedly crappier sorry but it's true though for me like I think that they were they were great have I told you how I feel about the three and three quarter inch GI Joe's no we should talk about that some more