The Great Outdoors: Sum-Sum-Summertime Simulation Games
Tabletop Games, Vintage Toys & Games
Nicolas Ricketts explores vintage games that mirror summertime recreational activities.
Tabletop Games, Vintage Toys & Games
Nicolas Ricketts explores vintage games that mirror summertime recreational activities.
This 1975 dealer advertisement for Kiddie Fondue from Kenner! features kids having fondue fun.
Introduced in 1962, Remco’s Barracuda Motorized Atomic Sub allowed children to imagine underwater adventures without needing water.
Toy Catalogues, Vintage Advertising
California-based Entex Industries’ 1979 catalogue showcases the company’s electronic and non-electronic toy offerings.
Tabletop Games, Vintage Toys & Games
Released by Milton Bradley in 1975, the Blockhead! stacking game incorporated spatial reasoning, hand-eye coordination, and steady nerves to construct a tower of colourful blocks.
In 1965, Topper Toys released Johnny Express, a modular line of battery-operated, remote-controlled trucks and accessories designed to simulate their full-sized counterparts.
Before Kenner struck pay dirt with their Star Wars toy line, the company released a series different action figures that included a fully articulated canine named Duke.
Tabletop Games, Vintage Toys & Games
In Mattel’s Slime Monster, players competed against each other to defeat a creature that invaded a town and oozed the green, viscous compound.
Released in 1972 by Mattel Preschool, Talking Pictures Schoolhouse was a sight and sound system that taught children about themselves and the world around them.