Stories worth keeping.

Kenner put the equipment in your hands. The haunted house could be your own.

Monster in My Pocket turned a handful of tiny figures into a cabinet of strange possibilities.

A nervous hero, a flashlight, and a vacuum cleaner made a haunted house feel worth exploring.

Before the movie began, a shelf of boxes had already started telling stories.

Before the black box reached the living room, a handful of people had to persuade Microsoft to build it.

A warehouse, a test route, and a Redmond address: the local work behind a familiar name.

The Northwest company began with remembered characters, strange little figures, and people who wanted to keep them.

A small map of the Washington places behind this issue’s games and collectibles.

A heart-shaped compact, a turn of the wrist, and the moment a television fantasy became something you could do.

A red car, three radio choices and a road that keeps asking which way you would rather go.

Patlabor makes its machines part of the city—and gives the people around them a working life.

Marmalade Boy’s small robot could hold a message—and carry a piece of an anime romance into everyday life.

How a Japanese toymaker brought screen heroes into children’s hands through metal, mechanisms and imaginative engineering.

In Asheron’s Call’s early years, friendships, strange winters and a notorious item scam made Dereth memorable. One server even tried to protect it from the plot.

On April 21, 1990, rival cartoon studios and television networks joined an anti-drug special. A free-rental videotape carried the collaboration beyond that Saturday morning.

A Portland newspaper dateline, a studio figure and a storyboard marked FCB/CALRAB reveal the work behind the California Raisins’ dancing gloves and sneakers.