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Games In Pens!

Strange, stupid little article for you today, and it's all about Games In Pens. What are Games In Pens? Classic board games and other much-loved toys, miniaturized and stuck on pens! I picked up eight different this weekend, from Pop-O-Matic Trouble to the Play-Doh Fun Factory. Sure, it's not the feature the world's been waiting for, but if I'm going to spend fifty bucks on novelty pens, I damn well better get an article out of them.

Posted by Matt on 08/07/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 156 comments

I used to love going to Michaels. I guess I still do, but I don’t go too often. My Grandma was a crafter, so I was doing the craft store thing before we had a Michaels and we were going to Franks Nursery and Crafts (which is now out of business). Michaels is still pretty fun, but Franks was really depressing, especially toward the end. I could never stand the smell there- fertilizer, yay.

I used to paint ceramic ornaments, but I kind of got burned out around 8th grade, and all I’ve done since then was an awesome gingerbread house thing that I gave to my other Grandma for Christmas last year. I also spent like a week painting this wooden box. I wanted to make it look good, even though it was only two colors.

I also have avoided the spoiler thread because I am currently avoiding spoilers for just about everything. No joke. Even if I have no plans of reading/watching/whatever any certain thing, I still don’t want to know because there’s always a chance.

Maybe I’ll pick up some of those pens for my cousins this year.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 08/08/2005 8:10 PM

I once had this pen that you filled with water. There was a little submarine and 3 rings (mines), that you tried to get around the periscope. Damn that thing was cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 08/08/2005 8:55 PM

Lazy Girl:
My wife and I got a chance to visit quite a few cities during our month long stay. Here is a list of the cities we visited: Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shaoxing, Tianjin, Shanghai,Wuxi, Beijing, and Harbin. The reason why we traveled so far north is because my wife is from Harbin. So, in a way, it’s become a sort of second "home" for me. Since you were living in China for four years, I suppose you must have learned to speak Mandarin quite fluently. I, on the other hand, can barely get by ordering food in a restaurant…;)

To the other posters:
Sorry if I caused any confusion with my previous post. To clarify, I had a blast in China and heartily recommend it as a potential vacation destination.

Chestnuts roasted by aint_baroque @ 08/08/2005 9:31 PM

Matt: Now this is the kind of article I think of when I think X-E. Great job :)

DarthBudzy: I have a few of those Game and Watch toys. I got Donkey kong Jr. and Super Mario Bros. a long time ago, way before the GameBoy came into the world. They still work too.

I remember watching a kid play with the Legend of Zelda G&W toy once (two screens if I remember correctly, just like a certain handheld)… I begged and begged him to let me play it, and he strung me along for close to an hour but never let me even touch it. Motherfucker.

Anyway, I figure I’ll sell them someday on eBay, but I don’t know… I’m a huge packrat and I don’t want to get rid of some part of my childhood like that.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 08/08/2005 9:36 PM

China is cool. Too bad I’ll never go there. Anyways, I’m surprised all these novelty pens were in an art store. You know, instead of a useless crap merchant or a gas station or soemthing. Useless crap is cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 08/08/2005 9:37 PM

I always used to be dragged to Michael’s when I was little. It would always start out as a "little trip to the store" and 5 hours later my mom and I would still be in Michael’s. I hated that place, so depressing and musty. My mom’s now moved on to Hobby Lobby, which I always thought was a local Missouri place but now have found out differently. Hobby Lobby isn’t as bad as Michael’s, but something about it is still off, maybe the fact that I’ve never seen more than 3 people in the store at a time. There’s always lots of cars in the parking lot, but nobody inside.

Chestnuts roasted by Stacey @ 08/08/2005 10:13 PM

the problem with Hobby Lobby (actually, there’s lots, but one of the biggest), is the incessant muzak. Now, if this was some quality music of Top 40 hits of yesteryear and easy listenin’ favorites, I could deal.

Nope. All day every day, from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M., I am subjected to Muzak renditions of all your favorite hymns done in such wacky styles as a "zydeco-calypso" hybrid.

Chestnuts roasted by Bonzo @ 08/08/2005 11:20 PM

I work at Michaels and these things are a PAIN in the ass..lol. Every night I find dozens of them randomly scattered throught the store…Still they are cool. Is your girlfriend the kind of girl who likes to stay in the clay isle and squeeze all the little Fimo and Sculpey clays to see which ones are the best? That stuff is funny…

Chestnuts roasted by EsperAqua @ 08/08/2005 11:49 PM

Us crazy canucks hav a chain of craft stores called lewiskraft, the one time i entered one was to buy wire so i could break into my car after i locked myself out of it, and i strangely felt the same sense demasculation that comes with entering such a store.

Chestnuts roasted by Diarrhea Dave @ 08/09/2005 12:45 PM

wow that connect four game pen looks like it’s gotta be played with tweezers

Chestnuts roasted by annalala @ 08/09/2005 1:29 AM

i am sure most will get fired from laughing to much at work from this

Chestnuts roasted by josh @ 08/09/2005 1:47 AM

well, no one will read this post(probably) byt i just wanted to say that a lava lamp pen would be so cool.

Chestnuts roasted by flarekatana @ 08/09/2005 3:05 AM

I HATE Michaels, because they got rid of all of the plastic models and model railroad stuff. Michaels sucks. The only time I’ve been in there in the last 5 years was to get something framed, which I will admit, they did a good job at.

Hell, most Wal-Marts now have a craft section. Why don’t you try going there next time? At least you can look at the toys whilst the Woman looks at crafts…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/09/2005 7:18 AM

Well, most Wal-Mart craft sections are one aisle, two at the MOST, so his girlfriend would be horribly enraged by the lack of selection, and by the time they actually got to Micheal’s, Matt would have to spend 8 hours there…and that would not be a good thing.

I have a spoiler, but I don’t want to go back in that thread…it scares me!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/09/2005 10:10 AM

I want the Lite Brite pen. I had a toy in the 80s that was kind of a rip-off of Lite Brite. I remind my mom how deprived I was, but the toy that I had was cooler–you stamp plastic cookie cutter cools and run pizza cutter tools across a black peg board with a light bulb in it. The lines and shapes you made were all different colors. To restore the board, you had to flip it upside down.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 08/09/2005 11:02 AM

I like running across the cheap imitators of things like Lite Brite. "Light Board," "Lazer Pegs," and the like. Maybe I’ll go play with the Astro-Lite gadget on HomeStar Runner.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/09/2005 11:34 AM

There was an old WCW Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan pen kinda like the Rockem Sockem Robots pen. Except it had this huge ring with Hogan and Sting circa 1998.

I saw it on card at a flea market in Baltimore for a dollar a year ago . I still didn’t want it no matter how much wrestling garbage I have in my house.

By the way, if I may ask, is X-E going to do the Mystery Boxes at all in the future?

Chestnuts roasted by The Chad @ 08/09/2005 12:10 PM

I think Play-Doh should replace dollars and coins as America’s currency.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 08/09/2005 1:16 PM

Nooker, I remember those Nerf tator tot bullets. I couldn’t find any other info on them either, not even on eBay.

The set I remember having was a small rubber pistol that you stuffed the bullet into and squeezed to fire. It also had a holder for the rest of the bullets that you could attach to your belt.

Chestnuts roasted by cravipat @ 08/09/2005 1:19 PM

I used to have the Hogan/Sting NWO pen, I got it as a goof from some friends who were into "’Rasslin" at the time. It was kinda cool though, the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em feature was that they would kick at each other, i don’t remember any head poppin though.

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 08/09/2005 1:23 PM

But then what would be do if our money dried out? Would all kitchen clay recipies (you know, the ones with flour and salt and water) have to be banned as counterfieting?

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 08/09/2005 3:31 PM

How could anyone hate craft stores? You’re home for models, both johnny lightning and disassembled plastic.

additionally where else are you going to find cork?

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce @ 08/09/2005 7:14 PM

The Micheal’s around here was notorious among teenagers as a shoplifter paradise, but eventually they went out of business and now there’s a produce market there. There is a Michelle’s across town.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 08/10/2005 2:15 AM

–>> ??..o you want $$.. ok i’ll write ya a check
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you gotta ..

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Chestnuts roasted by ~tOkK @ 08/10/2005 3:01 AM

^^shaved her legs and then he was a she, she said hey babe, take a walk down the craft aisle.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/10/2005 3:01 AM

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