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

You didn't know that?

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

I thought the guy was Joe.

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

No, for my era, the main guy was Duke.

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

Like,

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

I don't think it's good for their brains.

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

I don't think it was a part of the satanic panic necessarily.

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

And for your era, the main guy was Rocky.

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

It was pre-satanic panic.

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

Well, depends on which one you had.

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

It was more along the lines of you're riding your brain.

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

Okay.

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

So there was Rocky was the Army and the Marines.

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

Right.

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

So was that the thing that triggered it or was it the terrible, terrible games that really triggered what's called the North American video game crash of 1983?

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

Skip was the Navy guy.

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

And Ace was the Air Force guy, the fighter pilot.

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

It was the games, wasn't it?

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

Right, so they ran out of names after name three and circled back to Rocky.

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

Well, I mean, I think it was a two-part thing.

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

Like kids got a little less interested because the games started to suck, quite frankly.