Surveying the Gen X landscape and the origins of geek
Score. Coleco Vision came with Donkey Kong, and I see a Donkey Kong Jr. cartridge as well. Word Yahtzee? Please. That box was “lost” before the day was over.
We’ve got a G.I. Joe box, but I can’t tell what it is. Bigfoot is a monster truck toy from Playskool. You turned it on with a key and it had forward and reverse gears.
(Photo via colorcritical/Flickr)
(Video via RetroTY/YouTube)
Toys R Us, 1987. (Jim Mahoney/The Boston Herald)
Living the dream. And please note Geoffrey the Giraffe among the onlookers.
(Photo via The Boston Archive)
September 15, 1975. (Tony Lopez/St. Petersburg Times)
I can identify The Taffy Machine, the Toy Mixer, and G.I. Joe’s Coils of Doom, seen below via My Toy Museum’s Flickr.
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(First image source: Vintage Image Photos)
(Video and image via Yo Joe!)
All images via the illustrious WishbookWeb.
The Hoth Imperial Attack Base might have been the last Star Wars toy I ever got, because of…
2 Warps to Neptune 