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

His name was Frankie Vitruello.

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

I'm not quite sure how to put it.

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

And, you know, it's a very rudimentary study, but, I mean, how else are you going to do it?

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

So... I don't hate it.

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

I just really don't like it.

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

You're going to have a control game you don't blow into, and you're going to have a game you blow into.

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

The final key to this whole thing is packaging and shipping.

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

And after, how long did he do this?

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

So...

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

You think big deal, what's the big deal with the package?

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

30 days.

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

Every day for 30 days.

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

But a lot of thought goes into the packaging like you were talking about earlier with the G.I.

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

The guy spent a month blowing on this game, took the blown cartridge out at the end, and showed that it was corroded and kind of gross.

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

Joe actually advertising the other dudes on the package.

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

But that classic cardboard-backed clear plastic casing.

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

And it's funny, like you don't know what kid, you always wonder who invented this because every kid did it because every kid saw another kid do it who just got it from some other kid.

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

The shell.

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

Yeah, the shell, that was sort of became the standard and what everyone came to think of as an action figure package.