The hundredth iteration of this game

At this point I think there must be a place that sells the logic board for this type of LCD game intact for finishing and repackaging as you see fit. I think I may have picked this up from the dollar bins at Target. Gameplay: Things come down the road and you push buttons to avoid them. Very boring. Kind of funny considering you used to have to pay upwards of $70 ($20 from 1977 adjusted for inflation) for the same programming logic with less interesting graphics. Yes. I’m talking about Mattel Electronics handheld games. Instead of a 2 dimensional LCD silhouette, you were stuck with LED blips. How did those old handheld games cost? I want to say around $20, but it might have been $35 or so. There was no skateboard version, but it was the same game as Auto Race. Aesthetics did pay tribute to Mattel Electronics with a board series. I like them because I’m nostalgic for old toys (HELLO!!!!!!!) but I’m pretty sure these are just lifted straight from the old advertisements.

Here’s the board set from Aesthetics, as found over at the Museum of Handheld Electronic Games. Geez, what are the grammar rules for ending a question with a name that has an exclamation point in it? Did I mention that I had the game Zap!? The game, not the Scott Baio movie.

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3 thoughts on “The hundredth iteration of this game

  1. nweyesk8 on May 5, 2010 - Reply

    i spent a lot of time playing the ‘football’ blip hand held football game. the graphics were a bunch of red ‘dashes’ or red ‘x’s

  2. that aesthetics board series was tyt…all of the wu welsh’s sold out in my hood in a few days, (or all the ones that the shop was going to get) and most people were left with the sal barbier or the clyzza ones…

  3. I have the soccer one and bring it on road trips. The blip-blip-blip-horn noises really really piss the driver off, as if going with me isn’t annoying enough.

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