Category: Gaming Gadgets
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Namco TV Games Back in Stock at Amazon.com
Reading Time: < 1 minute During the 2003 holiday season, I raved about Namco TV Games, an integrated joystick-game controller with five classic Namco arcade games: Pac-Man, Rally X, Galaxian, Dig Dug, and Bosconian. The biggest complaint I had about the game, in retrospect, was that it was virtually impossible to buy. If you were…
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LEGO Says Mindstorms Product Series Manufacturing Will Continue
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week I pointed to on a Slashdot that said LEGO would stop producing the Lego Mindstorm series of construction toys. Slashdot now points out that LEGO has committed itself to Mindstorms, as a press release from LEGO Group indicates. The press release also says that the Harry Potter line…
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Lego Announces End of Lego Mindstorm Products
Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier today, Slashdot pointed out that Lego reportedly will stop making electronics, including Lego Mindstorms products, and also stop making building kits that are tied in to major movies. These actions are being taken in response to bad financial results for the group for the 2003 fiscal year. The Lego…
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Reuters Picks Up on the Vintage Electronic Games Revival
Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier today Reuters published a story called Retro Games, Devices, Recall Electronic Youth that talks about vintage gaming consoles available on eBay and throwback electronic games that are coming to market as new products. Products mentioned in the article include the throwback games that Operation Gadget has previously reviewed: Atari…
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Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games a Faithful Reproduction of 2600 Console Classics
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the first articles I wrote for Operation Gadget was about the Atari Classics 10-In-1 TV Game from Toymax. I’ve now had the opportunity to sit down and play several of the games, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it is a faithful recreation of several classic games from…
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Namco TV Games Gives You Real Pac-Man and Galaxian for a Really Low Price
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday, my wife and I were at the Target in West Windsor, NJ, looking for a few of the games that I have mentioned on Operation Gadget. We found all of the throwback electronic games I’ve talked about, including a few that I didn’t know had been released. One of…
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Mattel Rolls Out Another Great Old Electronic Game: Classic Baseball Handheld
Reading Time: 2 minutes A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out the Mattel Classic Football 2 game as a really inexpensive, fun gift for Generation Xers this holiday season. Another game that Mattel has reissued is the Classic Handheld Baseball Game. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, this game was not as…
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Classic Football Game 2 is a Pretty Faithful Recreation of the 1978 Handheld Classic
Reading Time: < 1 minute I keep finding more gadgets that are available this year that bring back fond memories from my childhood. One of them is the Classic Football Game 2 from Mattel. This is an inexpensive handheld electronic football game that is very similar to the original game that was a top gift…
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Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games is a Great Gift Idea
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re starting to see “throwback gadgets” come on the market that harken back to great historic periods in our country– like the 1980s. An example of this is the Atari Classics 10-In-1 TV Game from Toymax. What they’ve done is compressed an Atari 2600 video game system, embedded it into…