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

Tetris is a very simple game.

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

If you've never played it, it's... Oh, I don't even know if it's worth describing, but it's a game where you stack different shaped blocks, and when you got solid lines, a line would disappear, and the whole goal of this game is to keep those lines low, and as it built higher and higher and higher, there was less room for those blocks to drop, and it would seemingly go faster and faster.

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

You want me to try it?

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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

I think it's acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.

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

ABS, nice work.

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

Three types of plastic in one.

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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

So that's the harder plastic for the main body.

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

They may use something like polypropylene or polyethylene for the various parts or pieces.

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

You've got your fabrics if you have capes and things like that.

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

Oh, man.

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

It could induce panic.

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

That's so weird.

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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

Especially as they just kept building up and they're dropping.

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

Well, no, I mean, even the little small figures had, like the Jawas had capes.

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

It drops right onto another block.

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

You're up that high.

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

It's just like, you know, it is very stressful.