Originally invented in 1969 as what Parker Bros. billed as "the world's first indoor ball," Nerf was a round ball until the game-changing Nerf football arrived in 1972. In 1989, however, the company triggered an arms race among children everywhere with the introduction of Blast-a-Ball, wh...
The small gaming system, which came packaged with the wildly popular Tetris, combined elements from Nintendo’s NES gaming console and the Game and Watch, the original 1980 handheld from the Japanese company. Although it was less advanced than competitors from Sega and Atari, the 30 hours of ...
19、Millions of copies of which game are allegedly buried in a landfill in New Mexico because of poor sales? A、Custer's Revenge B、Bubsy 3D C、E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial D、Superman 64 Answer:C 20、Which country lies on the Adriatic Sea? A、Macedonia B、Serbia C、Kosovo D、Montenegro...
We tend to dream a lot more about boring, repetitive activities—stocking shelves, playing Tetris all day—than we do about interesting and diverse ones. In other words, we are most likely to dream about low-variance behaviors that are especially prone to overfitting. Those dreams do not recou...
, the largest privately owned jeweler in the country, wanted to unleash their '90s inner child by gauging the popularity of various '90s items in each and every state in the country.To begin with, the Shane Co. team analyzed Google Trends search interest in each state concerning 45 items ...
How many of you fine Massachusetts folks reading these words right now are secret fast food junkies? Seriously. Almost nobody I know admits to eating fast food, but there's a reason fast-food chains are hugely popular. Plenty of people LOVE McDonald's. And you know what? I'm one of ...
Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls were one of the most popular toys in the 1980s, generating nearly$2 billion in salesduring the decade. The huggable dolls, of which no two were alike, came with a birth certificate, and were so sought after thatconsumers rioted across the countrywhen supplies ran ...
(played by Nikita Yefremov), who developed the game in his spare time. Pajitnov was inspired by a lifelong love of puzzles to developTetris, a name that combined “tetra” (or four) and “tennis” (which has very little to do with the finished game, but whatever). As the film shows,...
Tonka brought Pound Puppies to the United States. They sold out across the country in short order, and that year alone more than 2.5 million puppies were adopted. As with many toys from the 1980s, an animated series further reinforced the commercial power of Pound Puppies. A contemporary line...
1941: Winston Churchill visits a country at war Christmas this year was subdued, with the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 and the United States' subsequent entry into World War II hanging over the populace. For the holidays that year, President Franklin Roosevelt hosted Winston Churchill, pri...