Christmas time has always been the time when kids anxiously awaited Santa's arrival and the delivery of their cool holiday goodies, and it was no different when GamerDude was a kid.  This week, he talks about the toys and games he received that were not the traditional board games.  He talks about how, when he was growing up, there were defininte "boy toys" and "girl toys," and how those toys maintained the mindset that girls needed dolls and kitchen appliances to play with, while boys, well, boys got to be boys. He remembers Suzy Homemaker, Chatty Cathy, and the E-Z Bake ovens were typical "girl toys."

GamerDude also talks about the cool toys he received, or at least got to play with, and explains how they worked.  He remembers Hot Wheels and the track set you could get to go with your Hot Wheels cars.  He talks about the U-Fly-It and how he turned the dining room into an airfield. He remembers when he got Skittle Bowl, and talks about the many shoot-outs he had with Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.  He talks about Battling Tops and how certain tops always seemed to perform better than others.  He also remembers the SSP racers, and the Smash-Up Derby set, and how much fun it was to send car parts sliding through the kitchen after a crash.