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 …
There are many many toys I remember owning as a kid and enjoying so damn much. But sometimes I got things for Christmas or birthday that kind of got lost in a landslide of other toys. Not actually lost, but definitely forgotten about and not appreciated as much as if I had received this a …
Continue reading Tomy’s Pokémon Viridian Forest ‘Polly Pocket’ micro playset!
My memory is pretty darn good regarding unimportant stuff from back when I was a kid. But I don't remember if I saw the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show before or after I owned these toys . I probably did watch the show first. I remember watching the show with my cousin, but I …
Continue reading ’90s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ‘Auto Morphin’ action figures!
In 1999 I can't really say that as a 9 year old kid that there was really much that I needed back then. If I was to write down a list of necessities in order of importance, it would probably be something like this: 1) Pokémon 2) Oxygen 3) Food and water …
Remember Polly Pocket? Of course you do. If you or your sister didn't own one, then I am sure you knew someone who did. Much less well remembered (which to me seems odd as they were muuuch better in my opinion) is the Mighty Max toyline geared more towards boys. No, it isn't …
Continue reading Forgotten toys! Mighty Max Versus the Kronosaur playset.
The Forgotten Starship 