Electronic Board Games Of The '70s, '80s, & '90s
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Published 2024-04-13
From Electronic Battleship to Dark Tower, kids of the '70s, '80s, and '90s had a wide variety of board games featuring some electronic component to choose from. Join us as we explore some of the most memorable of these electronic wonders!
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All Comments (21)
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Dark Tower was and still is one of the coolest board games of all time.
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I have to agree the hand held football game was the best!
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I remember my grandparents having the electric football. At the begening of the video. Great Content! 👍🏻🇺🇲
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Still have my copy of Electronic Talking Battleship and Electronic handheld Battleship from when I was a kid in the 90's
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Oh my god, Orson Welles. Wild to see a legitimate genius auteur advertising a board game.
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This was awesome! Nobody talks about Stop Thief anymore. Thanks for ths video!
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This video appealed to me to watch it - not only because I've enjoyed the ones I've seen so far, but also because Electronic Battleship was featured! I got the first version for Christmas in 1977 and LOVED playing it! I hung on to it after moving out, intending to bring it out again if anyone wanted to play it! Of course, by then people were just as happy to play the old manual versions again! Haha!
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I had an "electric" board game called "Beware The Spider". Similar to "Operation" if you touched the wrong spot on the board a little motor flung a foam spider at you. Even though it was foam, it was scary when the spider was flying toward you!
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That D&D game is gorgeous. I have the LCD handheld game called Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game, which is a similar dungeon crawling experience.
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D&D computer game was my favorite but Dark Tower was great too. Electronic Battleship was annoying in that to reset you needed to press each location button to reset it.
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I remember Omega Virus. I always read it as O mega Virus. It was such a cool game.
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To this day, I still have the old Electronic Battleship (1:10), Operation and Simon (2:20) and Merlin (2:40); unfortunately, the electronic components have gone bad so they don't work. But I loved this video's surprises, I actually didn't know of some of the games presented in it. Seeing them for the first time now in 2024, I was delighted to remember how I felt seeing such games for the first time back in the 1970s-1980s. Gen X rules! (but now with an achy back! lol)
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I still have Arcade Mania in my basement 😊❤️
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Omega Virus was freaking loud as hell and had no volume adjuster. Lol
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Not ones I owned myself but I seem to remember a couple of 'made for girls' electronic board games back in the day, one based around shopping at the mall, with the device styled as a credit card reader, and another based around dating boys, with the device being styled as a phone, which among other things played voice clips from the 'boys'.
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I think you've got me. In my story, it takes place on Earth and then the magic world obviously, I like Gen Z kids to experience a simpler way of life. I think I might just utilize this niche from Gen x culture. Like maybe they find an old cabin with a bunch of old electronic games and stuff like that. I don't think it'll be used for the plot just for something I'm working on with the overall plot being that they're on the run and have to get something significant done while still having to improve their relationships. I don't know. I'll definitely consider putting dungeons & dragons in it as well very nice. You've opened up my eyes to have fun is electric video games could be. I've always wanted a light bright so I might just get one one of these days yeah I've always been fascinated by battleship. I was a little girl my dad had a little box that had sound effects from radio shack so I can see the appeal although sadly I'm more of a 90s girl I sort of missed out on these electronic games but I appreciate them
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i had the Winnie the pooh Electro board game but i also dabbled in a TON of Omega Virus i was 100% a Disney kid growing up and of course i played a ton of Battleship
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We weren't rich. Between all my friends I had only seen Operation and Simon. Mostly is was plain board games, or D & D.
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Electronic Stratego was the best, I wish Hasbro would re-release it
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Aha, I watched this, wondering if you were going to cover the electronic/boardgame hybrids along with the purely electronic ones. I own a copy of Omega Virus, and it's still sitting in the next room. :-)
