Wildfire Pinball
Wildfire was an electronic pinball game introduced in 1979 by Parker Brothers, the makers of the hit handheld game, Merlin. Both games were created by...
Inspector Gadget – Curse of the Pharaoh Read-Along Record Book
If you took the comedic bumblings of The Pink Panther‘s Inspector Clouseau and the goofy gadgets of TV’s Get Smart and threw them in a...
Ghostbusters Records
My Ghostbusters fandom has been kind of strange. I was nine when the original Ghostbusters hit theaters in 1984 and, like everyone at the time,...
G.I. Joe – Adventure Board Game
My wife and I went to our first board game convention this year. On the last day of the con, they had a game flea...
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
I first watched The Abominable Dr. Phibes when it played on PBS on a random Sunday afternoon when I was about 12 years old. My...
Donkey Kong Record
Here’s another Kid Stuff record from my collection, Donkey Kong, from 1983! And little did I know there’s a connection to my hometown area with...
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind Record
Wonderland Records put out quite a few audio drama vinyl, but they were mostly records of old stories like The Time Machine, The Lost World,...
Buckaroo Banzai
I first saw The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension when I was about 10, early in its run on cable. My family...
G.I. Joe: Castle of the Doomed Record
Today, let’s take a look at a Kids Stuff record from 1983, GI Joe: Castle of the Doomed. Kid Stuff was a pretty cheap-and-fast production...
Star Wars – Ewok Family Hut
When the Star Wars trilogy concluded in 1983, Kenner and Lucasfilm decided Ewoks should be the thing to keep the merchandise ball rolling, so an...