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

So if you have a love of Mego, or you just want to know what we're talking about, also go check out the Mego Museum online.

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

But the point was they don't seem, in retrospect, to have really thought Rob was going to take off.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

M-E-G-O Museum.

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

And it's just basically like this...

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

wonderful online museum dedicated to everything that Migo ever put out.

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

In fact, the games that he came with in North America were the Japanese versions.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

It's pretty cool.

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

I wasn't even around when these things came out and yet they still somehow make me nostalgic, you know?

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

They hadn't even bothered to make the North American version of these.

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

Exactly.

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

All right, so let's jump back a little bit to 1966 and we're gonna explain how they went from eight inches, even though they were still making the eight inchers after 66, how they eventually got down to the three and three quarters inch.

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

They just put kind of this fix on it that made it compatible with the North American system.

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

But when you loaded up Gyromite, the intro screen showed the Japanese name for it at the very beginning of it.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

G.I.

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

Joe was licensing their stuff out to other countries.

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

I feel like I saw other games that had Japanese writing and stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

all over the place.

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

There was a UK company who released it under the name Action Man and eventually they licensed it to Japan to a company called Takara.

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

Yeah?

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

I don't know.