Classic Video Games - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jul 1997

At 06:38 PM 7/11/97 -0700, you wrote:

...
 When I was in high school, there was a precursor to the
Lynx/Gameboy/etc.
crowd that was a football game.  There were little red LED's(?) to represent
players, and you had up, down, and run buttons to control the quarter back.
It was very simplistic; you basically just ran the quarterback until you got
a touchdown (but I think you could do a fieldgoal?)  Anyway, I think Radio
Shack sold one, but it may have been someone else.   
        Yes, I remember these quite well...they made the most annoying
'blips' and 'beeps'!  I don't recall who made them or what they were
called,
though I believe Coleco made something like it at one time.  I remember they
were really popular when I was in junior high, about 1979-80 or so and that
the teachers must have had quite a collection of similar games the way they
were always confiscating them!  I also had a fairly neat blackjack handheld
at about the same time.

        Jeff                  jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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