1990. What a year it was! I don't remember too much of it as I was busy being a new born baby. But I'm sure it was fantastic. Being a new born baby, I missed out on a lot of the good shit that was on the shelves in toy shops back then. I also …
Continue reading Superhero Saturdays! Marvel Superheroes ‘Quick Change Armor’ Iron Man, 1990!
It was Christmas '95 or '96 and I was tearing the paper off a present from my great grandmother. Somewhat surprisingly I wasn't overly enthusiastic when I pulled the last bit of wrapping away and I was holding this. Obviously with hindsight I can see that I was a fucking idiot. If I could …
Continue reading Kenner Lava Predator action figure from 1994!
A little while ago my girlfriend went up into the attic to have a rummage around for some documents. She came back down with a bag full of toys which was exciting and unexpected and it made me make a mental note to check my parents attic when I am next in England visiting them, …
Continue reading Attic finds! My Little Pony toys and Littlefoot hand puppet!
After starting to plan for my Halloween countdown that I am doing this year, I got my Mighty Max toys out again. Every time I get 'em out, I realise that being a grown man, how far from being an adult I really I am. I sat for entirely too long playing with Mighty Max …
Continue reading Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon playset!
I loved and still love Ninja Turtles. It is such a weird combination, get some turtles, make 'em mutated ones that are roughly the size of humans and who can talk. And make 'em ninjas as well. What part of that isn't the best thing ever? I had quite a few Turtles toys as a …
Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wacky Action Rock ‘N Roll Michaelangelo action figure!
Due to a variety of reasons (most of them boring) it has been a while since I last did a blog post. So I am going to do my best to rectify that now. I am guessing it would have been around 1999 and I had gone over to a friends house (we had been …
I wasn’t a very modern kid growing up. When my friends were all playing on their Super Nintendos or Sony PlayStations in the 90s, I was still playing on my Gameboy or my parents Amstrad computer. A lot of the titles for the Amstrad and other home computer systems of the time like the ZX …
Continue reading Video game Retrosp’egg’tive, The Dizzy Series!
I like to play retro games as they usually aren't quite so 'heavy' as modern games. They don't demand a huge amount of time or effort to be put into them. You could easily pop Super Mario Bros. on for an hour and a half and finish it. A lot of games from the 8 …
Continue reading Video game Retrospectives! The first three Metroid games. NES, Gameboy and SNES!
I used to think it was strange the things that kids from times gone by used to play with. Like hitting a hoop with a stick for example. What person thought, "Christmas is coming up, I want 20,000 sticks and hoops on shelves by September! Every kid is going to want Santa to bring one …
Continue reading Opening packets of alien Pogs from 1995, and Star Wars Tazos!
Probably to my girlfriends dismay, I acquire a lot of crap. I make that sound like it just appears and I shrug my shoulders and go about trying to find a space for it. This isn't the case so I should probably rephrase my previous statement. I willingly purchase a lot of crap. I obviously …
The Forgotten Starship 