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

All right, so that's a tease.

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

Everybody, should we take a break?

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

Yeah, we should.

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

Was that it about Star Wars, you think?

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

I don't have anything else, really.

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

I mean, there's a gazillion other things we could talk about, I guess, but what more do you need to know besides that they were huge hits?

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

That's it.

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

All right, we're going to take a break, and we're going to come back and talk a little bit about how these things are actually made.

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

Okay, Chuck.

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

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

So there were a couple of other peripherals that came along that were as meh as Rob was, maybe even a little meh.

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

One was the power pad.

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

The other was the power glove.

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

And again, these were things that were really cool and helped advance the NES system and made a bunch of money for everybody.

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

But when you played with them, they weren't very good.

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

Yeah, the Power Pad is... It was a pad.

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

It had another use from another company.

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

It was called the Fun and Fitness Pad from Bandai.

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

And Nintendo bought them out and basically repackaged it and said, hey, now you can do, like, track and field games by running on this dumb thing.

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

And that technology is still very popular.