(04-12-2016, 06:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: How is that sadder than all of the other guys here who spent just as much time alone playing a game that was 1000 times more simple and required 1/1000th of the mental acumen?

Repeatedly pushing three different buttons for hours is much sadder than playing complex strategy games.

If you can keep yourself entertained that way the better for you. I played a lot of games by myself im my younger days. And probly even more now. although video games

(04-12-2016, 06:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: How is that sadder than all of the other guys here who spent just as much time alone playing a game that was 1000 times more simple and required 1/1000th of the mental acumen?

Repeatedly pushing three different buttons for hours is much sadder than playing complex strategy games.

You make a good point.

(04-11-2016, 09:19 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: I remember this stupid piece of crap game.

Wow, another game I had that I'd forgotten about.  

Also remembering some Bambino games I had.  I didn't remember the brand name, I just knew I had a football game and a safari game, and apparently there weren't many competing electronic safari games.  

(04-12-2016, 12:17 PM)GodFather Wrote:

I used to play in my grade school's pep band.  Well, "pep band" was a bit of a stretch, it was volunteers from the 5th though 8th grade bands that would play at the 7th and 8th grade boys basketball games.  I brought this to one of the games, and in between numbers we passed it around.  I was a big hit that night.  

(04-12-2016, 06:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: How is that sadder than all of the other guys here who spent just as much time alone playing a game that was 1000 times more simple and required 1/1000th of the mental acumen?

Repeatedly pushing three different buttons for hours is much sadder than playing complex strategy games.

I don't know....
Many women have been pretty happy with my "button thumb".

(04-13-2016, 01:15 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: I don't know....
Many women have been pretty happy with my "button thumb".

This is code for "I am very happy with my joystick hand".

(04-09-2016, 09:41 PM)Rotobeast Wrote:

I have this one and it still works.
Uses 9v.

I had the first Classic Football, played the hell out of it....not sure of the differences, but the 1st one was very similar to this, but white.

(04-10-2016, 09:19 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: And then we advanced to be able to play at home !

Many a rainy day playin this, wishin we could go out and play the real thing.  Six mfers in a football game....

(04-10-2016, 10:02 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I had that and the hockey one, but I have to admit they were handed down to me from older cousins so I'm aged but not quite THAT aged.  Atari football was more my time frame, but the Tecmo Super Bowl games my cousin and I had were the bomb.  Boomer and the Bengals take on Warren Moon and the Oilers (we lived outside of Pittsburgh but hated the Steelers) in TECMO SUPER BOWL MADNESS!!!!!


I also recall a version of these games appearing in the 1981 film Friday the 13th Part II.

Yeah, mine was a hand me down from my brother, I was in the era you're talking about, but I did have one of those metal, vibrating football games bought new.  I didn't think anything would top Tecmo Bowl......until Tecmo Super Bowl arrived on the scene.

(04-10-2016, 11:47 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Super Techmo Bowl has caused the untimely death of many controllers.

Yyyyyyaaaaaasssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!  LOL, scared the shit out of a buncha guys in college when I wound one up by the chord, and bashed it against the door....buttons and plastic bits hittin fools in the face....  .  The lone guy in the room that had known me for years just shrugged and shook his head and grinned.  He had seen it a few too many times.

(04-11-2016, 08:50 AM)Bengalzona Wrote:

Good way to get in trouble during class....  

(04-11-2016, 09:08 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: And of course there were these before the handhelds. I think this is the one that I had...Vikings/Raiders.

They were still makin 'em in the 80s, I think mine was the Bears and Patriots....been a few beers ago.

(04-13-2016, 10:57 AM)Wyche Wrote: I had the first Classic Football, played the hell out of it....not sure of the differences, but the 1st one was very similar to this, but white.

You could pass on the green one.

(04-10-2016, 09:19 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: And then we advanced to be able to play at home !

(04-13-2016, 12:08 PM)michaelsean Wrote: You could pass on the green one.

Man, I got jipped!!!!

(04-11-2016, 09:08 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: And of course there were these before the handhelds. I think this is the one that I had...Vikings/Raiders.

THAT'S what I had for a football game...the old LA Rams and not sure about the other team, Giants maybe? Amazing how little it took to entertain us back then!

(04-13-2016, 12:08 PM)michaelsean Wrote: You could pass on the green one.

(04-13-2016, 12:10 PM)Wyche Wrote: Man, I got jipped!!!!

Maybe it was the commercial that turned you off...

(04-13-2016, 12:06 PM)Wyche Wrote: They were still makin 'em in the 80s, I think mine was the Bears and Patriots....been a few beers ago.

Was even your childhood measured in brewskies?  

(04-10-2016, 09:19 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: And then we advanced to be able to play at home !

(04-13-2016, 10:39 PM)Tiger Teeth Wrote: Was even your childhood measured in brewskies?  

Well......yeah!!!

I had one of these