Evan Ratliff

All I know is the YouTube channel where they make really high-quality YouTube videos that are really interesting.

It's good stuff.

But someone, a gaming historian, came up with this very apt metaphor about a Trojan horse.

Yeah, and the other thing about Mego too was that all action figures had been like 12 inches tall up to that point, and Mego's line was eight inches, so action figures are starting to shrink a little bit now.

And that's kind of what they were looking for was a way to get these things in the home by almost tricking parents into thinking it wasn't a gaming system and it was more just sort of like a toy because kids still got and bought or received toys and stuff.

That's right.

And the one I actually had, even though I have no idea why, I had the Star Trek Enterprise bridge.

It's not like they shut down the toy industry.

Yeah.

It was just home video games.

So what they invented was the ROB, the R-O-B, the Robotic Operating Buddy, which is a very sweet name.

Oh yeah?

And then I guess, I mean I know I had Spock and Kirk and a couple of others, but

You should totally go look at ROB online and especially YouTube videos of ROB in action and just be prepared for the speed of ROB.

I'm well known to not have ever seen any Star Trek at all.

Except for maybe one movie or something.

So I have no idea why I got that.

Right.

But the thing is, Rob was a robot.

I mean, if it was a cool action figure.