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Atari and PLAION have a number of new products about to be released, and they were generous enough to drop-ship a care package to GenXGrownUp HQ with some samples a few weeks back. At the time we could only look at the oustide of the packages, but now we can take a deeper look at […]

Manic Miner is a platform game written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith. It was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. The first game in the Miner Willy series, the design was inspired by Miner 2049er (1982) for the Atari 8-bit computers. Retro Gamer called Manic Miner […]

Welcome to another episode of Bit By Bit, your go-to source for the latest in gaming news! In this video, we’re revealing a little-known secret: how to play FREE retro games on your Nintendo Switch without breaking the bank! We’ll also dive into the latest developments around DRM in gaming, what it means for players, […]

All the thrills and spills of the arcade game in a cardboard format in the Pole Position board game! Released in 1983 by Parker Brothers, players use various movement cards (move 5, move 4, move rookie/move 2, move 2/shift track) in an attempt to be the first car around the track. Adapted from the popular […]

Some time ago, Jon found this 1976 racing game at a game shop. Let's try it out! ? MORE Thrift Finds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN9TsRuuVCY&list=PL13zHeyDr6xvKE5HBOAcEgdIs1cqUt6t4&index=2&ab_channel=GenXGrownUp Mattel Electronics Auto Race was released in 1976 by Mattel Electronics as the first handheld electronic game to use only solid-state electronics; it has no mechanical elements except the controls and on/off switch. Using hardware designed for calculators and powered by a nine-volt battery, the cars are represented by red LEDs on a playfield which covers only a small portion of the case. The audio consists of beeps. George J. Klose based the game on 1970s racing arcade video games and designed the hardware, with some hardware features added by Mark Lesser who also wrote the 512 bytes of program code. From a top-down perspective, the player controls a car on a three-lane track and moves between them with a switch. Opponent vehicles move toward the player, in an effect similar to vertical scrolling, and the player must avoid them. A second control shifts gears from 1-4, with the speed increasing for each. Auto Race was followed by other successful handheld sports games from Mattel, including Football and Baseball which were both programmed by Lesser. The design was tweaked into multiple other handhelds, including Missile Attack (1976), which became Battlestar Galactica Space Alert (1978) as a tie-in with the Battlestar Galactica TV series, and Ski Slalom (1980). Auto Race was cloned in the Soviet Union as Elektronika IER-01. #retrogaming #handheldgaming #handheld #genxgrownup ? S H O P (affiliate) http://genxgrownup.com/amazon ? S U B S C R I B E http://GenXGrownUp.com/yt ? P A T R E O N https://patreon.com/genxgrownup ? M E M B E R S H I P Early access, custom emoji & more! https://bit.ly/395HEr9 ? G X G O N T W I T C H https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup ? M E R C H http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch ? P O D C A S T http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod ? D I S C O R D http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord ? S O C I A L http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp http://GenXGrownUp.com/twitter https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ ? W E B S I T E http://GenXGrownUp.com ? S P O N S O R S King of Nerds » http://kingofnerds.tv Order of Cosmic Champions » http://www.orderofcosmicchampions.com ? T H E M E "Grown Up" by Beefy » http://beefyness.com ? C H A P T E R S 00:00 Auto Race 1976 00:56 Bundle Deal 01:38 Box & Contents 03:19 Hardware Tour 04:47 Power On 05:22 Race One 06:39 Race Two 07:50 Summary

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