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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 jpero at 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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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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