24 Sep
2004
24 Sep
'04
10:37 p.m.
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
In early 80's, there WAS a 5" x 9" x bit
over 1" thick black toy.
Powered by battery, totally mechanical motor runnning all the time,
one dim red LED as "ball". Paddles slides side to side on each end.
To play, Turn on red dot glows (LED) press start button and motor
starts whirring audiably, the dot moves in fixed directions if it
bounces off the paddles, LED mechanically stiffly "rebounds" and goes
in different direction so on. A miss, the motor stops LED "ball"
still glowing. I did recall clearly that LED never ever rebounded
off the "side wall".
That was the game "Blip!" by Tomy. I've got one (they're not that hard
to
find).
http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/Tomy/Blip.htm
There was another similar mechanical flat toy but you
"steer" the
race car around the objects on the invisible "belt" and miss them toy
keep going. Fun stops with flashing LED where racecar "exploded"
when racecar "bashed" something.
Mattel Auto Race
http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/Mattel/AutoRace.htm
The first hand-held electronic game (source: Evan Koblentz ;)
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