Wichita, KS
Quoted from Rezdog:claims to be almost foolproof.
Ha Ha Ha. It won't cut off your finger but you could lose just a finger tip. 
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Here are a few things I had as a kid that I haven't seen posted yet.
1_1 (resized).jpg91reAVZ3LFL._AC_SX425_ (resized).jpgb3fac2fea39d30c5a5a581c7f7b25870 (resized).jpge1dbc3ba0c9f295bbaa8ab854fa3a215 (resized).jpglf (resized).jpegvintage-ideal-1964-crazy-clock-game_1_dfb8ed55867686d1c01c5c11f2a20e8d (resized).jpgSeen several earlier posts of Mattel football and baseball in this thread. Here are the other somewhat lesser known games in the L.E.D. sports series.
The Auto Race was pretty intense for red blip graphics
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Quoted from Rezdog:Thought had them all until I image searched Mattel Electronic for this post. I had no idea this existed.
There was also Missile Attack in 1976, but it was withdrawn from distribution and rebranded as Battlestar Galactica in 1978 because the city at the bottom was New York and they didn't want kids thinking New York was getting bombed.
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Oh, what was that called? I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing it, but I had somehow forgotten all about it until you posted a pic.
Quoted from EternitytoM83:Oh, what was that called? I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing it, but I had somehow forgotten all about it until you posted a pic.
Crossbows and Catapults. 
Kitchener, ON
Quoted from gliebig:Crossbows and Catapults.
Reminds me of a board game I have called Siege.
Soo many toys I either had or recall friends having that I HAD forgotten about. One of the best threads on PS these days.
What I find interesting is the stuff I never have seen. It seems like some toys are regional
and others more global. I guess it has to do with the individual suppliers of the times.
I remember being in Montgomery Wards watching my older brother buy this system because it was cheaper (Not sure by how much) then the newly released Atari VCS. Think I was 9 years old at the time...old enough to I know he was making a mistake.....I learned that day to not be frugal when it comes to leisurely pursuits : )
Quoted from Rezdog:I remember being in Montgomery Wards watching my older buy this system because it was cheaper (Not sure by how much) then the newly released Atari VCS.
Whoa. Didn't recognize that one. ^
I had a neighbor that had the Sears Atari 2600.
sears atari (resized).jpgQuoted from Atari_Daze:I had a neighbor that had the Sears Atari 2600.
I still have one of those. It has been in a drawer for close to 40 years.
Was too young at the time to even factor cost into these early systems. I just played the hell out of em’
Curious....what was the reason to buy the Sears version of the Atari and not the original.
Cheaper Price? Could only get the Sears model on credit? Ran like a Kenmore?
*Just realized that people may have preferred the Sears brand name over the upstart Atari
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Whoa. Didn't recognize that one. ^
I had a neighbor that had the Sears Atari 2600. [quoted image]
I had a load of Atari 2600 cartridges. But I remember I had one game called Stellar Track that you could only buy at Sears.
2A3ABA03-4E09-45FA-B38A-1285D1064F82 (resized).jpegAs a kid every Saturday I would end up at the big shopping mall after jr league bowling. I didn't have enough coin to visit Aladdin's Castle so I would hang out at Sears playing what I thought was Atari 2600. Maybe it was the Sears version all along. Very fond memories either way.
Quoted from mooch:But I remember I had one game called Stellar Track that you could only buy at Sear
Would Stellar Track only play exclusively on the Sears 2600?
Quoted from Rezdog:Would Stellar Track only play exclusively on the Sears 2600?
I had the regular Atari system and it played fine on that. Must’ve just been some exclusive item to get you to shop at Sears.
Quoted from Rezdog:Was too young at the time to even factor cost into these early systems. I just played the hell out of em’
Curious....what was the reason to buy the Sears version of the Atari and not the original.
Cheaper Price? Could only get the Sears model on credit? Ran like a Kenmore?
*Just realized that people may have preferred the Sears brand name over the upstart Atari
Atari would never had been as big as it was without Sears. The first home unit from Atari was put out exclusively as the Sears Telegames.
I have a Sears Telegames Pong Sports IV with the box and optional AC Adapter.
Quoted from Rezdog:Was kinda like a mobile etch a sketch
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Your Skedoodle reminds me of my Skediddler.
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B082FC39-4B8A-4691-9D37-735E4B4BDFCF (resized).jpegQuoted from Rezdog:Would Stellar Track only play exclusively on the Sears 2600?
no, the sears model and atari's model were identical (hardware-wise). they only differed in physical appearance. the partnership between atari and sears robuck merely allowed atari to extend its distribution in the late 1970s/early 1980s
Quoted from Silverballer:I would hang out at Sears playing what I thought was Atari 2600
I did that a lot, too. There was a mall within walking distance of my house. Sears was one of the anchor stores. I played their Atari 2600 knockoff, and later the Mattel Intellivison floor demos. I spent a good amount of time on the TRS-80s at the Radio Shack, too.
This was my first home console in 1977:
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Table tennis (Pong), handball, hockey. (There is a pretty good case that Atari stole Pong from Ralph Baer/Magnavox).
Then in '78 I got this for Christmas. Most of my friends got the Atari 2600. I think my dad felt like this was a better option because it had a keyboard and was a rudimentary 'computer'. The problem was that there was little third-party development like there was for Atari, and the platform never took off.
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Finally, a couple of years later, I got the Commodore Vic-20. Who else remembers loading programs from cassette tape?
Quoted from zombywoof:Who else remembers loading programs from cassette tape?
Who else remembers being bummed out when reaching the memory limit trying to load a hand coded BASIC program?
Quoted from zombywoof:I'll let this image stand for the countless models I built as a kid.
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I sort of wish I hadn't blown most of them up with firecrackers and M-80s.
Quoted from zombywoof:I did that a lot, too. There was a mall within walking distance of my house. Sears was one of the anchor stores. I played their Atari 2600 knockoff, and later the Mattel Intellivison floor demos. I spent a good amount of time on the TRS-80s at the Radio Shack, too.
This was my first home console in 1977:
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Table tennis (Pong), handball, hockey. (There is a pretty good case that Atari stole Pong from Ralph Baer/Magnavox).
Then in '78 I got this for Christmas. Most of my friends got the Atari 2600. I think my dad felt like this was a better option because it had a keyboard and was a rudimentary 'computer'. The problem was that there was little third-party development like there was for Atari, and the platform never took off.
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Finally, a couple of years later, I got the Commodore Vic-20. Who else remembers loading programs from cassette tape?
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Yes I do! finally got the floppy drive. and The 16K memory cartridge too
Had somey game cartridges too.
A friend had the VIC-20 then a C-64. He wore the keyboard out on the C-64. So I swap keyboard out with the old VIC-20 and it worked great!
Just in the process of organizing and purging through all my old toys. To set up in the games room. And sell of doubles I picked up over the years. I lost interest in toys around the time the real Ghostbusters and tmnt came out. But I still have some of them too. At that point, it was all about getting a part time job. To pay for video games. But my parents kept my old stuff. Crazy to think some of it has lasted 40+ years in my parents basement. The marx shooting gallery is from around 1967.
I started collecting vectrex stuff again about 5 years ago.
Sold off all my Star wars toys around 2004. Made a good buck on it at the time.
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Quoted from Rezdog:Damn you Google!
Thought had them all until I image searched Mattel Electronic for this post. I had no idea this existed.
Damn you ebay!
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My folks bought this for a me at one of those county fair grounds auctions in the early '80s. Just dug it up recently from storage.
You would not believe the price these command for especially with the box!
My bad schusler... thought you meant the Atari pinball.So the Mattel ski slalom is expensive? That doesn’t surprise me. Think most of the toys in the thread are now a pretty penny.
Just checked...One in box on eBay sold two weeks ago for 200. None are currently for sale. Definitely the rarest in the series.
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