This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite stores that no longer exist.
Cobb Center was a shopping mall in Smyrna, Georgia, originally opened as the Cobb County Shopping Center on August 15, 1963, making it the second mall built in Georgia. Inside they had a rare, Milton Bradley retail store! During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Milton Bradley was far more than a board game publisher,
Players control a small, gnome-like character, called the Bug Blaster.
Centipede is a classic arcade video game that was released in 1981 by Atari, designed by Ed Logg and Dona Bailey. It is often regarded as one of the pioneering examples of the shoot ’em up genre. In Centipede, players control a small, gnome-like character, called the Bug Blaster, tasked with defending a garden of mushrooms from waves of descending insects, including the iconic segmented centipede.
The toy industry’s first successful line of television-inspired merchandise came from the 1973 hit, “The Six Million Dollar Man.”
The 1970s witnessed the rise of iconic and enduring toys that have become nostalgic treasures for those who grew up during that era. I was born in 1958, so I was 12 years old in 1970.
The game is neither a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia.
Chinese Checkers, also called Sternhalma, is a German strategy board game that can be played by 2-6 players. It is a simplified version of a game called Halma (a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks). My parents had the version pictured here, a round metal container that stored the marbles and checker pieces. Flip it over and it was a checkerboard.
B,B,B,B Bugaloos!
Sid & Marty Kroft’s Bugaloos Game is a Milton Bradley, 1971, board game based on the 1970-72 NBC television series airing on Saturday mornings.
