exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Well I started to reminisce about my childhood over these last six months and the electronic games be them board type games or hand held. I ended up going down a path of hunting some of the ones I had and also some that friends had back in the day. I have quite a few to post as separate blogs here but and starting with Conics' Hand Held Electronic Soccer. I had this game when I was about 14 / 15 years old so quite some time ago. I remember playing this a lot and trying to build up the skill to score goals.


I one I got hold of has the original box


And manual

These early hand held games are quite interesting... just LED or plasma displays with fixed shapes.

I never had any myself as they were too expensive.

Very cool, I do like these sort of thing.

When I was young there were a lot of these things about, and also things like Space Invaders with electroflourescent displays and also the electromechanical games that Tomy used to make.

I never did like the LCD games so much though, the ones with the pre-drawn images, such as the Game N Watch.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 24 Mar 2024 14:37 When I was young there were a lot of these things about, and also things like Space Invaders with electroflourescent displays and also the electromechanical games that Tomy used to make.

I had one of those Tomy games, licensed by Palitoy, "Demon Driver".

I agree about the LCD things.

stephen_usher wrote: 24 Mar 2024 15:14

rubber_jonnie wrote: 24 Mar 2024 14:37 When I was young there were a lot of these things about, and also things like Space Invaders with electroflourescent displays and also the electromechanical games that Tomy used to make.

I had one of those Tomy games, licensed by Palitoy, "Demon Driver".

I agree about the LCD things.

Demon Driver, that's the one. Pretty mad setup inside that's for sure.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 24 Mar 2024 14:37 Very cool, I do like these sort of thing.

When I was young there were a lot of these things about, and also things like Space Invaders with electroflourescent displays and also the electromechanical games that Tomy used to make.

I never did like the LCD games so much though, the ones with the pre-drawn images, such as the Game N Watch.

Watch this space, there is a Space Invader blog incoming.

Icky wrote: 24 Mar 2024 15:42

rubber_jonnie wrote: 24 Mar 2024 14:37 Very cool, I do like these sort of thing.

When I was young there were a lot of these things about, and also things like Space Invaders with electroflourescent displays and also the electromechanical games that Tomy used to make.

I never did like the LCD games so much though, the ones with the pre-drawn images, such as the Game N Watch.

Watch this space, there is a Space Invader blog incoming.

I'll be watching!

A friend of mine used to have astrowars. Might have to see if I can find one as we spent hours playing that