My latest article Flasbak looks back at the electronic toy craze of the late seventies.
Here's a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/the-five-coolest-electronic-toys-of-the-1970s-21167/ ) :
Today, we have iPhone apps and video game consoles…and thank goodness
for them.
But when I was a kid in the l970s -- a long, long time ago -- the
home video game market was only in its infancy, and another kind of toy ruled
the market instead: the “electronic” toy.
This was the era of Quiz Whiz, Simon, BLIP, and the first
Electronic Battleship (1977). These and
other electronic toys seemed incredibly futuristic at the time with their
light-up indicators, keypads, and buzzing sound effects.
Today, of course -- over three decades later -- these toys would
hardly pass muster with any eight year old.
And yet the following five electronic toys I still remember with
incredible fondness. Indeed, they all
have prominent real-estate in my home office to this day."
My cousin in West Virginia had a Merlin. I remember trying to recreate the Munsters theme with music machine. I wasn't entirely successful.
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