1980 Mille Bornes Card Game Advertisement
I’ve mentioned the Mille Bornes* card game before (back in 2016), but that older post…
1980
Gabriel’s Pop-O-Matic Games
Well, I know what my next task has to be. This 1980 newspaper ad caught…
Patrol Dewback and Creature Cantina at Kiddytown in 1980
November 22, 1980. In addition to the Star Wars Dewback and Creature Cantina playset, this…
Battery-Operated Batmobile and Spider-Man Car
December 14, 1980. Why did Spider-Man have a car in the seventies and eighties? Because…
Tomy’s Strolling Bowling and Funny Football Games at Walgreens in 1980
Where else can you go on a Sunday morning to be reminded of the existence…
“Star Wars . . . At Western Auto!” in 1980
October 29, 1980. If my two books devoted to Star Wars newspaper ads of the…
Battlestar Galactica Boardgame and Puzzles in 1980
This 1980 newspaper ad shows us how much Battlestar Galactica had lost at retail by…
“Fantasy games capture imagination” in 1980
July 20, 1980. This 1980 newspaper article by Terry Kirkpatrick comes at the early edge…