1983 Ad for Parker Brothers’ Spider-Man Video Game
There’s no shortage of great advertisements hiding in various online archives, and today I’d like…
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1982 Not Quite Star Wars Artwork
Looking through the March, 1982, issue of Electronic Games Magazine I ran across a full-page…
Mattel’s Masters of the Universe/Dungeons & Dragons Handheld LCD Games Reviewed in 1983
I first mentioned these two classic games earlier this year (posted here), and now it’s…
MotorBoating Yahtzee in 1981
If you’ve read just about any book that covers the history of twentieth-century toys and…
May, 1978 Playthings Magazine and Star Wars
I dug through decades worth of Playthings magazine issues when I visited the Brian Sutton-Smith…
1959 Milton Bradley Advertisement in Life Magazine
Fans of Milton Bradley games (Amazon.com search*) will no doubt enjoy this 1959 ad from…
“Milton Bradley Games make FUN a family affair!”
Earlier this week I posted a Milton Bradley ad from the sixties. Well, I figured…
1965 Popular Science Article on Adults and Games
Mainstream media usually focuses on toys and games during November and December, exactly that time…