Today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the original Nerf ball. Most geek dads’ first memory of Nerf involves innocuous sports equipment of various descriptions. The brand’s ...

Nerf has been around for 40 years (the first product was a small foam ball), and foam ballistics have come a long way in that time. They now sport advanced features like lighted scopes and battery ...

Nerf unveiled the Rival lineup back in 2015 when it introduced its new form of ammo. Instead of foam darts, the Rival blasters shoot small foam balls with golf-ball style dimples on the outer surface.

Now, Nerf is ruining all that with tiny yellow balls. You see, Nerf decided it wanted a foam blaster that could appeal to slightly older folks, the ones who might otherwise be playing paintball or ...

The Rival line wasn’t the first time Nerf turned to foam balls as an ammo alternative to darts, but the real appeal was that it could hurl those tiny spheres (which looked like soft miniaturized ...

Jack Taylor / Getty Images. In 1989 Nerf debuted the Blast A Ball, small pinkish cannons that fired golfball-sized foam projectiles, but the 1991 introduction of the Nerf Bow and Arrow cemented ...

Irving posted this Vine from a nerf game going on inside a house -- which while we acknowledge is being played with a soft small nerf ball on… BetFTW NFL NBA NHL MLB WNBA Newsletter NBA ...

Neon foam—that's all Twister inventor and toy developer Reyn Guyer needed to launch NERF in 1969 under Parker Brothers. Dubbed 'the world's first indoor ball,' NERF was such an instant success ...