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

And so when you bought a Barbie, you wanted all the other stuff too.

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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

And, you know, my deal is, you know, said before is I was heavy Atari kid, big time arcade kid, and then played this kind of stuff with friends here and there.

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

And toy companies wanted to figure out how to do that with boys toys, but they just couldn't quite figure it out because no one had ever come up with toys.

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

a doll for boys, and that's kind of what it required.

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

And then now every year I'll usually or every couple of years I'll get two or three PlayStation games, play them obsessively for a couple of months, and then it sits for nine months to a year.

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

It was coming up with a doll for boys, and no one had cracked that nut.

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

But Barbie made the whole thing all the more appealing, I guess.

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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

I'm with you.

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

Yeah, finally this dude named Stan Weston, who actually knew Ms.

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

I think that's healthy.

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

That's a healthy way to play video games, you know?

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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

I still enjoy it, though.

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

It's a lot of fun.

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

Handler, and he was in the toy racket, and I guess I shouldn't call it a racket.

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

But, yeah, my buddy Doug Dillard growing up had one rich friend, and he had a Intellivision.

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

It's a bit of a racket.

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

And so I had kind of some fun today watching the old, because I remember thinking the Intellivision football was really great.