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Archive for the ‘Mattel’ Category

July 6th, 2008

Whatever happened to Strategic Simulations Inc.?

I’ve been asking this question since the early 2000s, and I don’t know for the life of me why I didn’t bother looking the answer up with Google, or any other search engine for that matter. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to ruin the mystery. It turns out, however, that the disappearance of Strategic […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

May 22nd, 2008

Egad, I’ve been tagged!

And, yes, I owe Aiza over at Gamerlite, one of b5media Video Games Channel’s newest blogs, an apology for not “promoting camaraderie” by answering her tag at the soonest possible time. Well, Aiza, blame it on Bayantel (whose service, sad to say, began to suck deteriorate [again] after my supposed speed and bandwidth upgrade—surprise!) and […]

By Joel -- 5 comments

January 28th, 2008

Mattel’s Intellivision: Not for the dexterity challenged

Darn. Sorry, folks, it just hit me like insects smashing into windshields in the dead of the night.
Back in the 80s, when Atari was still the in thing, I remember getting my grubby hands on the controls of Mattel’s Intellivision at the house of a family friend.
Boy, they weren’t kidding when they dubbed the machine […]

By Joel -- 5 comments

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