Christmas toys of 1980
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In a Tazwell Publishing Co., offering guide from Nov. 20, 1980, Ben Franklin placed an ad with all of the hot toys of the mature.
Some of the toys I get a kick out of are:
• The Chips motorcyle for $19.88. It appears to be one that a infant can ride. Remember that show? I used to watch it all the on occasion and may have thought Eric Estrada was cute.
• Babe in arms Cries for You doll from Matel. The ad reads, "Fill her stifle b trap with water and feed her. Pull her string and she waves salutary-bye and tears come from her eyes." You could have this annoying doll for $12.97. I never wanted anything like that.
• Centre Simon and Merlin: The Electronic Wizard. These games were overwhelming! Of course, today's youth would scoff at them. They were very Spartan compared to the games of today. The Merlin was $26.97, which seems costly to me, even in today's standards. We must have been spoiled because we had both of these. We even had a full-proportions Simon, not a pocket-sized one. The basic concept of the games was to keep in mind a light-blinking pattern and then repeat it by momentous buttons. I wasn't that great at it. I wasn't meet at Rubik's Cube either.
Source: East Peoria Times-Courier (blog)