I agree that board games have gotten cheap as the market for them has shrunk. Spinners are particularly bad. Conventional toys are much, much better. Are you k

I agree that board games have gotten cheap as the market for them has shrunk. Spinners are particularly bad. Conventional toys are much, much better. Are you kidding? The plastic manufacturing techniques available today put 70s toys to pale. Computer modeling also makes more complicated designs possible. In the 70s, action figures were lucky to have a blocky head with eyebrows painted on in about the right place. Modern GI Joe figures have full naso-labial folds and neck musculature. It isn't even close. In 1985, Optimus Prime was able to transform from a blocky truck to a truck rotated vertically with a robot head and arms that kinda swung out. You had to add the fists and you lost them almost immediately. Modern Optimus figures transform from an aerodynamic semi-truck into a fully articulated robot samurai that looks better than the one drawn in the original cartoon. Have you compared a modern plush to one from the 80s? Take a look at the stitching. You can get plushes for $10 now that would have cost $80 in 1985 and had less facial detail. Toys are mostly better made now. We just don't care about them as much and they fade into the generic plastic darkness.