Toys! Quiz! Toys! Quiz!

[Susan Arendt]

Toys! Quiz! Toys! Quiz!

You were obsessed with them as a kid, but how much do you remember about the toy commercials from your youth?

You're all grown up now, but when you were little, this time of year meant one thing: toys! You undoubtedly remember your favorite toy from when you were a kid, but do you remember the commercial that went along with it? Time to find out!

We've got two quizzes for you today, one featuring old toys from the 90s, and one featuring really old toys from the 80s. (Yeah, we know they're not really all that old, but relax. It's just for fun.)

For clarification, we're basing answers on the American names for the toys featured; all of the commercials used were aired in the United States. We apologize in advance for the somewhat less than optimal condition of some of the clips, but some of this footage is pretty darn old.

As always, you can take as long as you like, but your overall time will affect your position on the leaderboards. When you're done, make sure you tell us your favorite toy from when you were small. Mine, as you may have guessed, was Lite Brite.

We had a lot of fun putting these together. Hope you enjoy them as much as we do!


(Take the Old Toy Quiz [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/quizzes/view/47])

(Take the Really Old Toy Quiz [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/quizzes/view/48])

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[Deofuta]

Awww unable to load resources

Nostalgia blast for the win, by the way.

 

[hazabaza1]

The videos aren't loading for me. Just thought I should report that.

 

[Deofuta]

The videos aren't loading for me. Just thought I should report that.

Yep same here, and yet people still have 100% already. damnnnnn

 

[hittite]

same here, but I got 80% just by finding the ones that had real names.

 

[Swaki]

once the videos are up i suspect ill do alright just from what ive seen on American television, but i do need the visual, also i saw one of the options where something along "hairy balls of fury" i really hope thats a joke and that we weren't all that innocent/corrupt back in the 90s.

uh and favorite toy was my batman action figures, ah back in the days where all i needed was a batman figurine and some homemade sound effects to have fun.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I'm getting error messages on both videos.

Please fix it. This quiz looks like a lot of fun.

 

[MrMisfit]

Videos not loading for me either.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I know this has been said before, but the stupid videos aren't loading, and I can't do the quiz without them. Please advise.

 

[Rhayn]

303: Failed to load a resource. Unable to load resources: Error #2124.

Just in case you were interested in what it said.

Otherwise, looks quite fun, it'll be interesting to see how I'll do in this, to say the least.

 

[Super_Nintendo_Chalmers]

Mm, had the same problem. Videos won't load.
However, my favourite toy was probably my Buzz Lightyear action figure. No jokes.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Hmmm...strange. It's working for some people, but not others. We'll do some troubleshooting on this end, see if we can get it sorted. Sorry about the delay, gang.

 

[jpakaferrari]

I totally owned the really old toy quiz without the video, but for some reason the newer toy quiz is very difficult to get about 2 of the questions right without the video.

 

[SharPhoe]

Holy crap, I made 4th place! If I hadn't had to watch the video for some of them, I'dve totally gotten it sooner...

Now for the REALLY old quiz...

EDIT: And I did even BETTER on that one. I'm not even that old, though... >__>

 

[Jon Etheridge]

100% on the first go! Never done that before. I remembered every one of those toy lines from the commercials when I was a kid. Never played with all of them though. I should go back and do that. I've always wanted to put my balls in Mr. Buckets mouth.

 

[Virgil]

Anyone having trouble with the videos, can you see them if you go to the normal view page?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-escapist-presents/1316-Holiday-Old-Toy-Quiz
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-escapist-presents/1317-Holiday-REALLY-Old-Toy-Quiz

Also, if you can let me know what browser/OS version you're using, that might help.

 

[Eric the Orange]

It's really sad how much of those commercials I actually remember.

And I feel old...

 

[Ophiuchus]

Hmm. Bit US-centric, half of them never made it over here. Still, 80% on the 90s thing and 70% on the 80s.

 

[Magnatek]

8/10 on the first, and 7/10 on the second one. Ha ha! Classic toys. In all seriousness, this was a fun quiz week.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Hmm. Bit US-centric, half of them never made it over here. Still, 80% on the 90s thing and 70% on the 80s.

Well, I'm American. To be fair, I did warn you that this was completely US-based.