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

Yeah, absolutely.

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

All right, that makes much more sense.

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

I thought they had a Montgomery Ward play set.

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

So they knew they had to have almost like a trick to get their foot in the door.

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

That's what I thought at first, too.

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

Bruce Wayne worked there or something, which, of course, he didn't even work.

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

And they came up with one.

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

And they found this – is Gaming Historian – I know it had a YouTube channel, but is it also just a full website?

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

I don't know what I'm thinking.

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

No, he just gave orders.

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

They were making tons and tons of money.

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

In 1973, they moved into movies with their Planet of the Apes line, which was some plastic primates and then the astronaut that was taller, and that was a huge hit.

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

I don't know.

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

All I know is the YouTube channel where they make really high-quality YouTube videos that are really interesting.

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

It's good stuff.

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

But someone, a gaming historian, came up with this very apt metaphor about a Trojan horse.

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

Yeah, and the other thing about Mego too was that all action figures had been like 12 inches tall up to that point, and Mego's line was eight inches, so action figures are starting to shrink a little bit now.

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

And that's kind of what they were looking for was a way to get these things in the home by almost tricking parents into thinking it wasn't a gaming system and it was more just sort of like a toy because kids still got and bought or received toys and stuff.

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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

And the one I actually had, even though I have no idea why, I had the Star Trek Enterprise bridge.