Vintage Toys & Games

Remco released Universal Monsters in 1980, a line of figures capitalizing on the popularity of the famed monsters of filmland.

Released in 1961 by Lowell Toy Mfg., the Sea Hunt Underwater Adventure Game was based on the TV series of the same name.

Mattel released The Sunshine Family line of posable dolls in 1974. The line centred around a wholesome family of three living life in the country.

The 1964 Johnny Seven toy line of playsets and facsimiles of military equipment from Topper Toys was marketed exclusively to boys.

In Topper Toys’ Clock-A-Word, players competed to form the longest possible word from a random selection of 9 letters in the shortest amount of time.

In 1961, Ohio Art released Magnastiks, a construction set that allowed children to “experience the wonder of magnetism.”

Released in 1974 by Milton Bradley, the King Oil board game challenged players to acquire land, drill for oil, and financially decimate opponents. 

In 1974, Hasbro released Ricochet Racers — action toy playsets that combined target shooting and race cars.

Atari released the Lynx in September 1989, a revolutionary handheld that looked to take sales away from the Nintendo Game Boy.

In 1971, Topper Toys launched Ding-a-Lings, a line of robots from an imaginary universe.

For almost three decades, Aurora Plastics Corporation was a prolific manufacturer of scale model kits. This 44-page catalog from 1967 highlights the various lines that captivated model makers during the company’s heyday.

A famished frog demanded feeding in Milton Bradley’s now-classic Mr. Mouth game from 1987.

These zero-tech tablets allowed children to draw and quickly erase their work repeatedly without needing to charge between uses.

Two years before the company went out of business in 1967, The A.C. Gilbert Company released 65 The Year to Go Gilbert, a catalogue promoting their active toy lines.

In Mattel’s Slime Monster, players competed against each other to defeat a creature that invaded a town and oozed the green, viscous compound.

Several years before Shrinky Dinks hit the scene, Wham-O unveiled Shrink Machine, a creative toy that allowed children to create “shrinkies” out of plastic.

Jumping goats were center stage in Parker Brothers’ whimsical Hey Pa! There’s a Goat on the Roof.

Released in 1986 by Coleco, Talking Teacher was an electronic learning toy that offered play-and-learn spelling and math activities.