Pet rocks and Rubik's Cubes: The greatest toy fads since the 70s - Irish Times

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNHkGqeX8iLvXVEyLoI5ju2VEfZq3w&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=C5NBWKD6NYvaWNLHn8AF&url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/pet-rocks-and-rubik-s-cubes-the-greatest-toy-fads-since-the-70s-1.2890725"><img src="//t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVz8KM3wcxuYJrPvKb7xYE_HhGXyYLo jsUAxtDMdh5WEZUSVTWj8q5yA5CYfBUtmWdvrW_gPiG" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">Irish Times</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNHkGqeX8iLvXVEyLoI5ju2VEfZq3w&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=C5NBWKD6NYvaWNLHn8AF&url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/pet-rocks-and-rubik-s-cubes-the-greatest-toy-fads-since-the-70s-1.2890725"><b>Pet rocks and Rubik&#39;s Cubes: The greatest toy fads since the 70s</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Irish Times</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">Then computers such as the <b>Commodore 64</b> came along and gaming improved - slowly, very, very slowly . Boffins at Nintendo developed a games console in the late 1980s that changed the world . In the United States in 1988 one out of every six dollars&nbsp;...</font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dGVU32ImI9ORTYM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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