Published in 1971 by Whitman, Heckle and Jeckle’s Ski Trail Game was a spin-and-move race in which players competed to be the first to reach the finish line at the bottom of the ski hill.

Released in 1964, Mattel’s V-RROOM Guide-Whip Racer (#0589) was a manually powered vehicle designed to simulate the sound and feel of real speedway racing without batteries.

Released in 1960 from Revell, The Game of Yertle used the turtle character created by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) as the central figure in a simple balancing game designed for young players.

Released in 1966 by Remco, Fist Faces Funny Face Toy was an inventive but straightforward novelty item that turned a child’s fist into a moving puppet-like character.

Released in 1981 by Cadaco, The Cannonball Run! board game was based on the action-comedy film of the same name.

The annual Toy Tales Holiday Gift Guide features contemporary gifts inspired by classic toys and games.

Published by Milton Bradley in 1960, the Men into Space board game put players in command of a fleet of rockets tasked with delivering supplies to the moon.

Ohio Art’s Carnival Shooting Gallery (#575-K) offered a compact, mechanical version of a midway-style shooting game, complete with moving ducks and rotating rabbits.

Nicolas Ricketts looks at three essential board games from game designer Sid Sackson.

Released by Playmates in 1989, the Muppet Babies Imagination Park Playset capitalized on the popularity of the Jim Henson Muppet Babies characters that were introduced in the 1984 theatrical release of The Muppets Take Manhattan. 

In Flap Jack: The Flip-Flop Game, Remco turned the art of flipping pancakes into a dexterity game for children.

An early entry in Remco’s line of educational science sets, the Electrocraft Beginner’s Electrical Workshop (No. 405) introduced children to the basics of circuitry through a variety of simple, self-contained experiments.