Today is the 40th Anniversary of Nerf

Posted by John Farrier in Toy & Video Games on September 9, 2009 at 6:35 am


The first Nerf product debuted forty years ago today. It began as a humble orange ball created by toy developer Reyn Guyer. His team designed several games that could be played with it and marketed it to Milton Bradley. That company turned him down. So Guyer took his product to Parker Brothers, who bought his idea, threw out the game rules, and began selling the ball as a single product. The company named the product “Nerf” after the packing material that off-roaders used to wrap around their roll-bars.

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3 comments to "Today is the 40th Anniversary of Nerf"

  1. FishBottleT
    September 9th, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Cheers to you NERF!! Thanks for all of good times of shooting your best friend in an all out war or throwing that crazy shaped football that seemed to go soooooo much farther.. Thanks

  2. Johnny Cat
    September 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am

    And let's not forget the contributions of all the scruffy-looking Nerf Herders this product gave rise to! :P

  3. mishelley
    September 9th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    Today marks the 27th anniversary of me bouncing a "Nerf" off my little brothers skull. I believe this warrants some sort of cake.


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