Back in the day, we had things like Speak & Spell and Speak & Math, courtesy of Texas Instruments. There was nothing more satisfying than learning how to spell “chrysanthemum” or how to multiply 53×6 in a creepy, robotic voice, quite reminiscent of the Family Guy version of Stephen Hawking’s voice. These days, kids have [...]
It’s summer, it’s hot, it’s only getting hotter – it’s definitely time to bring out the water based toys. Super Soaker has been the name in water guns ever since they first came out, way back in 1989 (when our parents still mostly let us aim a shockingly cold squirt of icy water right at [...]
It’s a continuing trend: the same toys that we grew up playing with and loving to bits and pieces are now reemerging and becoming popular among our generation’s children. With toys like Barbie and G.I. Joe, that’s to be expected, but a lot of toys that seem to have disappeared throughout the 90s are now [...]