Almost every boy at some time in his life has owned a toy train set. And we've no doubt spent many an hour watching it cruise around on its circular/oval path. Oh, if only my model train set looked like this:
And it takes a NASA launch center to run this layout.
As a kid, I wanted to be one of two things when I grew up: Engineer or Ninja. Unfortunately, I became neither of these. However, perhaps I would now be a world class ninja, if only the following were available to me in the 80's:
It's a gosh darn replica of Snake Eye's sword!! Imagine dressing all in black and creeping around the neighborhood with this bad boy. My foes would cower before me in terror.
Now, I could go for the offically licensed sword at $250.00. Or, I could purchase the knock-off version for $40.00.
Unfortunately, I believe Storm Shadow would then own me when my sword broke in two.
Remember the days before a couple hundred cable stations. Yep. Those were the cave man days alright. Or were they?
I present to you The Captain Power Powerjet XT-7.
We didn't have no fancy, dandy plasma screen televisions back in the day. But we did have TV shows that could interact with your toys. And the cool thing bout the Powerjet XT-7 was that you could rack up points shooting stuff on the Captain Power Television Show.
But beware. Get you rear kicked enough by the boob tube, and Captain Power gets ejected from his Powerjet.
I had no idea how in the world something on television could become tangent in the form of blowing my toys up. But dang if the Powerjet XT-7 didn't provide me with endless entertainment. Well, endless until the show got cancelled and my videotape wore out.
I am a nerd. No, not the kind that can do your homework. And not the kind forced into giving up my milk money. Instead, I'm the kind of nerd fascinated with bad horror movies, toys, and cartoons. I don't know squat about playing D&D, but I can tell you all about its Saturday morning cartoon. Forget X-Box. I'm talking about the Atari 2600. If my wife rolls her eyes at it, you'll find it here. This is the perfect place to nerd-out without the Alpha Betas or my wife kicking my butt. So won't you join me?