Crazy Foam is a shaving cream type bath product in the 70′s with Superhero cans which allowed your favorite comic book hero to spew right on you.
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For Yahtzee, a player can roll the dice three times. The goal is to enter the heftiest five-dice combined score possible in each of the scoring categories.
Buy one dispenser and you’re sure to buy more, and before you know it, there’s a fledgling collection lining your shelves.
A compact, wood-grain cabinet formed the console base, and wired out from that base were a pair of unique controllers. Instead of the standard joystick/button configuration, the Intellivision’s long and thin controllers were operated with a 16-direction golden disk, four “action keys” and a 12-key numbered keypad. Colorful overlays came with most games, placed over the keypad to show what each button did in that game.
Its plastic casing changed shape and color over the years, but it always contained a bright projector light bulb and a slot that allowed the user to feed a strip of film through the light it emitted to create projected images.
From: hotwheelscollectors.com
You either had no pegs of the right color or too many (because they were all over the place). From: Wikipedia.org
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The original set that launched the Colorforms brand in 1951 is still a winner with kids and a nostalgic favorite for adults.
Blip was a hand-held, electronic tennis game that made a very annoying buzz sound when played. A red light “bounced” from each side of the game, providing that you pushed the correct button that it landed on.
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Wham-O released the Super Ball in the summer of 1965, and the reigning kings of toy fads had yet another winner.
“Easy to learn. Easy to play. But not so easy to win.”
Nothing makes (noun) more (adjective) than a/an (adjective) game of Mad Libs
Remember Intellivision?
The Give-A-Show Projector was equal parts slide projector and flashlight.
Hot Wheels are die-cast model vehicles manufactured by Mattel introduced in 1967, originally approximately 1:64 scale cars and trucks. The multitude of varieties of vehicles were designed to be used on associated Hot Wheels track sets.
Lite-Brite is a toy created by Hasbro in 1967, creates fantastical glowing designs through a light box with small colored plastic pegs that fit into a matrix of holes and illuminate to create a lit piece of art.
The Slip ‘n Slide manufactured by Wham-O was first introduced in 1961. The toy is a long sheet of thin plastic, flanked lengthwise on one side by a heat-sealed tubular fold. If it wasn’t wet you’d end up with a nice big rug burn on your belly.
In 1970, Parker Brothers introduced the world’s first indoor ball with its original "Non-Expanding Recreational Foam" material, or NERF. Fun name for aerodynamic projectile device.