• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Old School handheld electronic gaming - remember this?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
lxskllr said:
Yup. I never had one, but friends of mine did. I had some kind of driving game where you steered a car that was fixed at the bottom, and opposing cars came at you via images printed on tape :^D
Click to expand...

Oh man, I had that. There were two lanes of cars that came at you. If you stayed in third gear the whole time, you eventually got jammed up and wrecked, but downshifting changed the relative speed of the cars... er, tape... so you could get by.
 
I liked this one too:

ParkerBros-Wildfire.jpg
 
I had one of those car games for a while - except it was later (1985 or 1986). This one was red and was meant to look like a full dashboard.
 
I had the Mattel baseball & Football ones, and these 2

1upcoleco1.jpg


pacman-5.jpeg


Well the 2nd was the US Pacman version, I cannot find a pic of it, but it was basically the same thing I'm thinking, it looked exactly like that.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
I think I remember that one. It looked sorta like a Speak and Spell but was an owl.

Hmm, I think its this:
http://www.fourthgradenothing.com/2010/06/texas-instruments-little-professor.html

It just kinda makes you think an owl (like the one in the old Tootsie Pop commercials).

Hmm, I don't know, because I remember the owl and the red LED display. It was like that little professor but looked a bit different.

I saw another pic but can't find it now, that showed the little professor with a red LED part up top.

Here's a link that might help:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/TI/LittleProfessor.htm
Click to expand...

That's it!

I had the older(I assume) model with the red LEDs :^)
 
I used to have this until some asshole kid stole it from me when I was 12 or so. Was at an airport 🙁

tigerbojacksonfootballb.jpg
 
I had the Blip game. The movement of the little light was all mechanical and even back then I knew it was lame.

Had Merlin too and that was fun.
 
QueBert said:
I had the Mattel baseball & Football ones, and these 2

1upcoleco1.jpg




Well the 2nd was the US Pacman version, I cannot find a pic of it, but it was basically the same thing I'm thinking, it looked exactly like that.
Click to expand...

I still have the Ms. Pacman version somewhere. For many years I had the box it came in. It's coming up on the time it'll be worth some real money. I wish I'd kept it all in better shape.
 
I know, right! I played it constantly. Football was hard to score more than twice, but if you passed it every single play and ran it, you could. Best I ever made was 21.

Baseball was great. Interesting how they did the whole bat/ball interaction.
 
Jeez - I actually have do to some..... WORK.... here at work, come back into ATOT and my thread has taken off.

Glad some are enjoying it and bringing back some memories!

Something magical about the toys and friends one has around that 7-12 age range. My son is 9 now - I often wonder what he will think back on nostalgically in 30 years!
 
Hummmm looking at that hand held museum site Casio had a calculator that had a boxing game built into it. I MUST find one of these, I would have died to have one of these when they came out in 81.

I had this one growing up

Tomy-Tron.jpg
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top