This week at Flashbak, I remembered Coleco’s Quiz Wiz hand-held
game.
Here’s a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/who-remembers-colecos-quiz-wiz-361035/)
“In 1979, Coleco introduced to the world a small computerized toy
called “The Quiz Wiz,” a rectangular device designed to test the limits of your
knowledge.
This small beige electronic “question and answer game” was
equipped with a numerical keyboard, and green and red indicator lights for
noting correct and incorrect answers. The portable Quiz Wiz could also
“lock” into various booklets -- colored red, green and blue -- which posed
questions on many different topics.
The Quiz Wiz came
packaged with the booklet “1001 Questions,” but Coleco also released other
booklets for subjects including Movies and TV, The World of Sports, People and
Places, Trivia, Music and Books, The Ocean, Energy, The Book of Lists, Super
Heroes, The Bible, Ripley’s Believe it or Not and, Monsters, Vampires, Witches
and Ghosts.
Today, we have iPhones
that are smaller than Quiz Whiz and can do a whole lot more than “buzz” at
incorrect answers. In 1979, however, this was cutting-edge, miniaturized
technology....”
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