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KoE Blog: Hungry Hungry Hippos vs Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots

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  Hungry Hungry Hippos vs Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots Blog Hasbro vs Mattel "Sometimes... the only way to heal our wounds is to make peace with the demons who created them," -Dr. Ishiro Serizawa Intro Board games have existed for years, but 3D plastic board games didn’t come out till the 1960s, as they just figured out how to use plastic molds to mass produce products. While these two weren’t the first 3D board games, they are unique to the fact you control the pieces by pressing buttons and levels. These two have been around for decades and are still popular to this day. Hungry Hungry Hippos , the marble munching game from Hasbro. “We’re hungry!” Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots , the first boxing robots from Mattel. “Knock his block off…” So this one is a bit more confusing than usual due to the nature of both. So we’ll try and go over all the things we will be using, which will be complicated seeing as both have decades of media to cover. Them being toys and b...