Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games, and Other Stuff from the 80s That Rocked

In this fond trip down memory lane, Just Can’t Get Enough celebrates all the awesome products kids collected, begged their parents for, threw tantrums about, and obsessed over in the 1980s. From Hit Stix to Hungry, Hungry Hippos, My Little Pony to My Buddy, this book has all the toys and games that made the ’80s one of the gnarliest decades of the century.

Packed with colorful photographs and illustrations and written in an entertaining, irreverent style, Just Can’t Get Enough is filled with personal anecdotes, funny facts, and random trivia, along with special features like the Redonkulous Meter, which measures how beyond ridiculous each product truly was. Hilarious and original, this book is a must-have for anyone who ever snuggled with their Care Bear, staged epic battles between He-Man and Skeletor, played with their Lite-Brite for hours, or all of the above.

Matthew Robinson was born and raised on a steady diet of action figures and Saturday morning cartoons. When he’s not writing, he’s a member of the popular comedic rap group the Trilambs. He lives in Los Angeles.

Jensen Karp is a professional 1980s pop culture historian, talented rapper named Hot Karl, and owner of Gallery 1988, a pop art gallery named after his favorite year. He once met Anthony Michael Hall and lives in Los Angeles.