Evan Ratliff
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And so when you bought a Barbie, you wanted all the other stuff too.
Yeah.
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.
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.
a doll for boys, and that's kind of what it required.
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.
It was coming up with a doll for boys, and no one had cracked that nut.
But Barbie made the whole thing all the more appealing, I guess.
Yeah.
I'm with you.
Yeah, finally this dude named Stan Weston, who actually knew Ms.
I think that's healthy.
That's a healthy way to play video games, you know?
Yeah.
I still enjoy it, though.
It's a lot of fun.
Handler, and he was in the toy racket, and I guess I shouldn't call it a racket.
But, yeah, my buddy Doug Dillard growing up had one rich friend, and he had a Intellivision.
It's a bit of a racket.
And so I had kind of some fun today watching the old, because I remember thinking the Intellivision football was really great.