{"id":597,"date":"2020-01-31T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T17:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penguinpetes.com\/wordpress\/?p=597"},"modified":"2020-03-24T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:09:03","slug":"new-at-geekydomain-geek-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penguinpetes.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/31\/new-at-geekydomain-geek-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"New at GeekyDomain: Geek Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a heck of a week over at my GeekyDomain gig.<\/p>\n<p>First there was <a href=\"https:\/\/geekydomain.com\/the-80s-called-to-say-they-had-the-best-action-figures\/\">80s action figures<\/a>. All the top action figure franchises launched with their own cartoon, back when toys were cool. I dunno what happened to toys now. Tell me something named &#8220;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&#8221; would have made it if they came out in the 2010s. Most people never even know that they were originally done as a <em>parody<\/em> of comic book franchises. To see more of the action figure 80s including the really arcane stuff, see <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/MAgYlQS\">my IMGUR gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But then, as if that weren&#8217;t enough geek nostalgia, I noticed that Radio Shack \/ Tandy post-mortems were all over the web&#8230; but they only told half the story. As a Generation Xer, I have a duty to document my unique observation point of view in history, so I made <a href=\"https:\/\/geekydomain.com\/retro-tandy-handheld-games-whatever-happened-to-radio-shack\/\">the most definitive retrospective on Radio Shack&#8217;s rise and fall<\/a> you&#8217;ll ever see online. 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