Evan Ratliff

Yeah.

And if you want to get feminist about it, every action figure, including G.I.

I mean, Atari was dead as disco.

We talked a little bit about it before, especially in the ET episode.

Joe, ultimately came from Barbie.

That's a good way to look at it.

And I did a full Atari guest two-parter with Strickland back in the day on tech stuff.

Alright, here's a deal that I never knew.

G.I.

Joe debuted in 1964 before Christmas.

I'll bet that was a fun one.

It was a lot of fun.

It's almost as if they had planned that.

But yeah, E.T.

came along and certainly didn't kill Atari, but it helped usher in the end of Atari.

The original, I knew all this stuff, the original was 12 inches and had 21 moving parts and the thing I did not know was that G.I.

And it wasn't just this one game.

It was sort of a flash in the pan for a few years.

Joe was the collective name of all four of these armed forces dolls.

And parents were also weighing in and saying, you know, I don't like my kid playing this much garbage on the television.