Tetris Radica Plug and Play Game 2 Players

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Published on Saturday, 17 September 2011 13:00

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Tetris  is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984. Radica Games Limited (founded in 1983) is a company that produces electronic games. On October 3, 2006, Mattel, Inc. announced the completion of their acquisition of Radica.  The Radica Tetris unit comes with two specially designed controllers containing several variants of the classic Russian puzzler: Tetris, Battle Tetris, Garbage, Timed and Hotline. Two player frenzy-plug in a second controller, play head to head. Controller is 6x2-1/2x3-1/2". Uses 4 AA batteries

The game is in the controller itself, and plugs directly into your TV

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Nintendo Game Boy Color Pokémon

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Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 12:52

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Pokémon is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlink able Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own Mario series. [From WikiPedia]

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Cheetah “Characterstick” Bart Simpson Nintendo NES Joystick

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Published on Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:49

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Cheetah’s Character Stick of Bart Simpson. A rare item for Nintendo NES collectors! (but valued at $15 to $20)

A and B buttons in front of the joystick, and start and select buttons in the back.

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Master Merlin (1982) the Electronic Wizard by Parker Brothers

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Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 12:06

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Merlin (sometimes known as Merlin, the Electronic Wizard) was a handheld electronic game first made by Parker Brothers in 1978. Merlin is notable as one of the earliest and most popular handheld games, selling over 5 million units during its initial run, as well as one of the most long-lived, remaining popular throughout the 1980s. A version of the game has been recently re-released by the Milton Bradley Company.
Merlin was created by Bob Doyle, a Harvard PhD. and inventor who had previously worked with NASA. Merlin took the form of a rectangular device about eight inches long and three inches wide. The play area of the game consisted of a matrix of eleven buttons; each button contained a red LED. The array was encased in a red plastic housing, bearing a slight resemblance to an overgrown touch-tone telephone. Four game-selection and control buttons were also placed at the bottom of the unit; a speaker took up the top section. Supporting electronics (including a simple microprocessor) were contained within the shell of the game.

Parker Brothers later released Master Merlin with more games, and the rarer Split Second, where all games involve time with a more advanced display, sporting line segments around the dots. Both of these share the same general case shape, and came out a few years after Merlin.

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