Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your children are already asking for a hand-held video device called Game Boy for Christmas, better act fast. Nintendo, the Japanese manufacturer of this year's hottest toy, expects to produce 1 million Game Boys for sale in the U.S. this season -- but that will meet only half the estimated demand. A portable video-game system that is controlled by a microprocessor chip, Game Boy uses interchangeable cartridges, and it offers stereo sound...
Priced at $90, the toy is more expensive than the average stocking stuffer. But it comes with headphones, a high-resolution screen and an accessory called Video Link that enables players to hook two machines together for head-to-head competition. Not all the games involve zapping; some call for role playing. Nintendo hopes the diversity of the games will help attract girls, who represent 25% of Game Boy's following...
...Nightmare on Elm Street horror movies, no one has ever succeeded in killing off the fiendish Freddy Krueger, who mutilates and murders teenagers in their sleep. But in toyland, Freddy has been given the ax. Last week Matchbox Toys acknowledged that it had halted production of its 17-in. talking Freddy doll. The company was bowing to pressure from the archconservative Rev. Donald Wildmon, who called for a boycott of stores selling the toy...
...Another segment supposedly showed rebels stalking government guards and blowing up a mine. The Post says Etabari claims the footage was faked by Hoover at a camp in Pakistan. The Post adds that CBS in 1987 aired a tape of an exploding red toy and described it as a bomb planted by Soviet soldiers. An unidentified BBC producer called the "bomb" a phony device made for Hoover. Whatever the truth of these allegations, they are a reminder that skepticism is an editor's best -- and perhaps most reliable -- friend...
...toy, of course. There is enough room in its midget trunk for two tennis rackets and one can of balls. Is it a yupmobile? A delicate question, but the answer is not really. Yuppies lack a sense of nonsense. They buy BMW or Saab Turbo convertibles, ragtop versions of sedans that are irreproachably expensive and slightly stodgy. If you must pick up your elderly aunt, her Doberman and her scuba gear at the airport, you can manage it in one of these. In the Miata...