electronic toys

[hush]

This was the first hand held game i own i played it for hours the only down side is i am missing the battery cover for it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4185304...7622129185602/

[Steve W]

Well, before this toy thread fades away, I thought I'd try to gather as many of my electronic toys together and take a few pictures. I still couldn't find them all, sadly. It's late, and I don't want to dig through dangerously wobbly stacks of storage tubs and general piles of junk. So this is the easiest stuff to reach. I know I've got other football handhelds, and a Luxor tabletop Scrabble spin-off game. I just don't know where I put them.

And yes, I know that I should have dusted off the Big Trak first. The flash makes the dust layer look so much worse.






I didn't include a lot of stuff, like my Tomy Atomic Arcade or my Super Mario Bros. pinball game. I consider those more toys than electronics.

[Pantechnicon]

Nice. Looks like the Coleco Total Control you got from me at OVGE has found some friends.

[Ryaan1234]

Originally Posted by Steve W

This is glorious.

I might just post a picture of my little toy/electronic game collection because I have I few that aren't in your picture :P

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Ryaan1234

I might just post a picture of my little toy/electronic game collection because I have I few that aren't in your picture :P

Go for it, dude. I'd love to see your collection!

[Steve W]

They aren't electronic, but they're still cool little handhelds from the '70s. I bought two packaged Tomy Pocket Games today (as mentioned in the Thrift Finds thread). Pocket Poker and Sentence Nonsense. I'm pretty sure I knew a kid who had the Pocket Poker one, although I never figured out how to play it. And I can't explain why the price tag on them say "cheese". Unless they're acknowledging the inherent cheesiness in these things, but I don't think the flea market stand owners are that meta.

[Zap!]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Today I picked up a pristine Bandai tabletop game called Pair Match. It's got to be one of the coolest looking electronic toys from the '80s. In fact, a few of them were used as props on Star Trek: The Next Generation as some kind of table decoration in Ten-Forward.

That is an amazing looking handheld. Hadn't heard of it, good find.

[Steve W]

Weirdly enough, the whole box is in Japanese, but the bottom of the box is English text and instructions.

At some point today I plan on sorting through a bunch of my disorganized stuff, putting it in a bunch of storage tubs I picked up yesterday, and sorting everything by category (console games, handhelds, controllers, etc.). Hopefully I'll find some more of my wayward handhelds for another group photo.

[Yukima]

I never collected a lot of electronic toys when I was a kid, but I'm starting to collect a few! I have a weird-looking Sailor Moon wand that lights up (probably a bootleg), a Japanese D-arc Digivice, and a Japanese Pokedex and Pokegear from Pokemon G/S.

I remember my cousin had an Armatron (completely forgot about it until I saw the picture!) Another cousin had a Tiger LCD game of NiGHTS Into Dreams - he sold it to someone a while back, which was sad because I was going to ask him if I could have it! If I ever find one, I'd get it immediately!

[mnbren05]

I had Robbie, Armatron, and a Matel football handheld goos stuff. Although Armatron never worked right and ended up only going up and down? Anyway I also remember having a watch that played a Mario game where you moved up a road. It was the good old black outlines on a solid background type.