Toys ‘R’ Us had the best exclusives back in the day. Remember their video game section? I'd spend hours just staring at the games, reading the backs of the boxes. Now I collect retro toys, stuff I first saw there. Wish the next gen could experience that.

Ah, the N64DD — the playground of cancelled dreams. Did y'all know that Cabbage was being worked on by the creators of Pokemon? It was gonna push the DD's disk-save capabilities to the limit with real-time growing mechanics. Players were supposed to nurture creatures with unique AI, kinda like a …