Maybe you can help me, /toy/.
When I was little I won this thing at chuck e. cheese. I couldn't even begin to guess a year.
It was some sort of sea exploring crab/insect robot with multi-jointed mechanical limbs. It came with little guys that could ride in it. I'm pretty sure there were no other components to the toy. I remember the box being pretty big, though the toy itself was maybe 4 inches across not counting the legs.