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

It's the creepy factor brought on by this clothing that didn't fit quite right.

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

No, Tetris was pretty great.

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

I loved it too.

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

It was awesome.

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

I want to shout out some other ones.

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

There was another one, Metroid, which I rented countless times for an entire weekend from Blockbuster.

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

Yeah.

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

It was the kind of clothing that you would make for a son who was a serial killer, but you didn't want to turn him in, so you just keep him locked in the basement, and you've got to make his own clothing.

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

And would spend the entire weekend with friends trying to beat it.

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

And if I remember correctly, I never beat Metroid.

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

But it was really groundbreaking in that there wasn't, like, some path you had to stick to.

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

You have to make clothing for him.

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

This is the kind of clothing you would make him.

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

Like, you were meant to explore these vast areas and find stuff before you could advance to the next level.

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

That's, I think, what creeps me out about it.

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

Well you're working through some stuff so I'll check in with you at the end.

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

We'll see exactly what it is you hate about the tall balls.

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

That was pretty new, actually.

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

So Metroid was groundbreaking, too.

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

So the manufacturing process, you gotta create the mold next.