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

And it was a lot of fun to play, too.

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

Yeah, I was so into the sports games, and I still play the PlayStation PGA 2K for their golf game.

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

And then once you make the molds, then yes, you have to make the molds, you have to operate them, and then you have to decide what kind of, what's the word I'm looking for, where you actually make the plastic figure.

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

It's still a lot of fun.

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

But I was addicted to the Atari beach volleyball game, wherein it was two players aside, and both players were connected to one another.

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

Molding, which I should have been able to come up with because we were talking about molds at the time.

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

They could not move independently.

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

So when you're moving your joystick around, they're both running in the exact same pattern.

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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 there's different kinds.

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

I looked up one kind called rotational molding.

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

Yeah, that's hilarious.

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

That reminds me of another game that Dave dug up called Chase the Chuck Wagon, which was just about as bad as it got for Atari, where a dog chases the wagon from the Chuck Wagon commercials.

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

Yeah.

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

I guess that's what Star Wars was going to try at first, but they lost too much detail on the figure.

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

So they went to, I think, an injection molding process.

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

It's a branded game.

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

But with rotational molding, you've got a mold, and it's on this computerized arm, and this arm just kind of spins around inside an oven.

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

Yeah, who would have thought?

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

And then it would poop out food and the dog would eat the food.