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"Hey Dad, I want a calculator for Christmas!" The good old days of 1986, when even calculators were featured in ads
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These were cutting edge graphics for a handheld back in the day. Before that you just had blinking red dots.
The boxers actually look like boxers here. The realism must have blown their minds stepping up from this!
Pretty sure LCD games had been around long before 1986.
Oh yeah there where a ton. They were all neat but pretty much unplayable after a time. I had a Ninja Turtles one I remember. Forget the name of the company but it started with a T, Teco something.
Might it have been the big chunky green Turtles LCD handheld from Konami that it seemed everyone (but me) had back then?
Yeah that probably it. Don't remember much on the game play just know I had it. Because I had every Ninja Turtle toys, clothes you nane it.
If my mom crack head boyfriend hadn't sold them it be worth thousands upon thousands now. (Mother claim she lost it all in storage)
I know bullshit because we had oak furniture that worth more then the car she drove. It was the furniture she got when she divorced my dad and we had for years.
I'm still pretty salty about it.
Nintendo's Game and Watch came out in 1980.
Oh shit! I had that game! Got one Christmas Forgot all about it. It was fun for all of 20 minutes then I didn't touch it much after that.
LOL, I played mine incessantly. But I'm not very bright.
Found one at the thrift the other day, just couldn't drop $30 for it.
What the fuck, what makes them think it worth 30 dollars? Think they were 10 dollars new back in the day.
I had that one. Played it all the fucking time!