1983 brought Mario, the chicken nugget, and the Swatch Watch. A trivia game on air reveals all of them and gets one answer spectacularly wrong.

The clues come one at a time: shoulder pads as the worst fashion trend, Ford Escort as the best-selling car, the chicken nugget as the food debut of the year. The video game clue is the one that stings. Pac-Man was the guess. Mario was the answer.

The Swatch Watch launched in 1983 as the new wave in Swiss watches. Decades later, the question on the table is about auction sites: the same pocket watch, working and in good condition, sells for $50 or $1,000. What is actually different?

Topics: 1983, Swatch Watch, Mario debut, throwback Thursday, pocket watch

Originally aired on 2026-05-21