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Clue
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Answer
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A
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Game where the object is to fling all of your color coded insects into someone's trousers.
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Ants in the pants
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B
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Doll invented by Ruth Handler, who named the toy after her daughter. She later made a male doll named after her son.
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Barbie
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C
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Little pieces of vinyl that can be affixed to a smooth surface without adhesive and can be removed. At first just shapes then various licensed characters like Popeye, Gumby,The Beatles, the Smurfs and Star Wars.
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Colorforms
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D
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For it's time a very high tech electronic role playing game. Orson Welles did the commercials. Commands a high price on ebay.
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Dark Tower
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E
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Future pastry chefs could hone their craft with this low wattage culinary heat source.
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Easy Bake Oven
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F
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Talking toys that looked like mogwai's. They grew "smarter" as time went on. They were also pretty damned annoying after a while.
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Furby
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G
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Once he was a generic soldier. Later the code name for America's daring, highly trained special mission force. Always a real American hero.
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G.I. Joe
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H
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Satisfy the appetite of your semi-aquatic land mamal by having them devour the most white marbles.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
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I
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Video game console put out by Mattel. First major competetor for the ATARI 2600.
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Intellivision
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J
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Stack up 54 rectangular wooden blocks. Try to remove one of them from the stack and put them on top without causing the tower to topple over.
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Jenga
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K
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A kit containing plastic rods, bircks and connectors that can be used to make any number of objects. Distant competitor to Lego's.
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K'Nex
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L
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Line of playsets put out by Fisher Price starring small little pegged shape humans that can fit in various vehicles, locals, etc.
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Little People
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M
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Little rainbow colored equines that have developed an unusual, some would say unsettling following among adult men.
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My Little Pony
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N
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Toy stores wouldn't stock video games after the market for them crashed in '83, so this consol was bundled with a toy robot that acted as a "trojan horse" to get retailers to carry it.
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Nintendo Entertainment System
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O
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Originally known as "Reversi" then renamed after a Shakesperean hero. Variation of the Chinese game "Go" but with plastic disks instead of stones.
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Othello
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P
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Modeling compound that comes in a variety of colors. Was originally used to clean wallpaper.
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Play-Doh
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Q
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Electronic trivia game put out by Tiger Electronics.
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Quiz Whiz
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R
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For most kids this was their little red wagon. It was so sturdy few of them had to ever be fixed.
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Radio Flyer
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S
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Electronic spelling game that E.T. used to make a transmitter.
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Speak & Spell
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T
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Toy trucks that are so sturdy they come with a lifetime guarantee.
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Tonka
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U
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Card game with a spanish title where you have to match the previous players number and/or color.
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Uno
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V
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Disks with various photographs are put inside this camera-like contraption that allows one to view stereoscopic images.
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View Master
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W
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Don't worry, this plastic baseball won't break your neighbors window.
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Wiffle Ball
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X
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Game console put out by Microsoft.
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X-Box
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Y
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Roll dice and gain points based on patterns that you roll. Basically it's poker with dice.
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Yahtzee
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Z
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Water pistol game where teams shot different color ink at eachother. Don't worry, the ammo vanished.
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Zap It!
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