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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

The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. The VCS was bundled with two […]

The Atari VCS (later renamed Atari 2600) was released in 1977. This vintage game catalog is from just the second year of the 2600’s existence: 1978. Featuring only twenty (20) games, this time capsule is not only a snapshot in time of the early Atari, but also a look at just how whimsical and cartoony […]

Comp IV is an electronic deduction game similar to "Mastermind". The comp has a number pad and a readout area with two columns: a number column and a sequence column. To play, the comp selects a random number and the players try to determine what it is. For example, if the comp generated the number 436, and your first guess was 423, the comp's number column would light the 2 (meaning you have 2 numbers correct), and would light the 1 in the sequence column (telling you you have 1 number in the correct sequence). Players get one guess and must then pass the unit to the next player. The first player to enter the correct number wins. The game can generate 3, 4 or 5 digit numbers to increase the difficulty. #vintage #retrogaming #genxgrownup - LINKS Comp IV Manual » https://archive.org/details/compiv - SHOP http://genxgrownup.com/amazon http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch - PODCAST http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod - SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/genxgrownup - WEB & SOCIAL http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp https://bsky.app/profile/genxgrownup.com https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ http://GenXGrownUp.com - SPONSORS King of Nerds » http://kingofnerds.tv Order of Cosmic Champions » http://www.orderofcosmicchampions.com - CHAPTERS 00:00 Comp IV 00:56 Thanks to Eric 02:14 Box & Contents 05:29 Paperwork 07:15 Hardware Tour 08:10 Battery Box 09:35 Game One 12:05 Game Two 13:45 Summary

Kingpin II, from Castle Toys, is a portable electronic pinball game released in 1979. It incorporates sophisticated microprocessor technology to give you the lights and sounds and action of a real pinball in a handheld version. This immaculate example of the 45-year-old toy was found at a vintage/antique mall and gifted to Jon for his […]

This Bambino-brand "Knock-Em Out Boxing" game was first released in 1979, and has a surpising amount of playability for a game of that vintage. Join Jon as he cleans this one up and takes it for a few rounds! #handheldgaming #boxing #retrogaming #genxgrownup - SHOP http://genxgrownup.com/amazon http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch - PODCAST http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod - SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/genxgrownup - WEB & SOCIAL http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp https://bsky.app/profile/genxgrownup.com https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ http://GenXGrownUp.com - CHAPTERS 00:00 Thrifing 01:12 Box & Contents 02:47 Manual 04:14 Hardware Tour 07:18 Cleanup 09:05 Power On 11:20 Four Rounds 15:38 Summary