Comments on: The love/hate of electric football

By: raiders757

raiders757 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:47:55 +0000

Wow, this has brought back all kinds of memories of staring at players spinning in circles and trying to fix the dial for them to move in the right direction. That thing went into the closet and off on a trip to the Land of Forgotten Toys.

By: mackie66

mackie66 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:25:43 +0000

I would play my electric football game for hours. At least we could stop the action to really see of the RB scored or was tackled at the goal line. Kicking fieldgoals was a hoot as was the passing game, but all u had to do was line up blockers and hit the electricity,,,what a hoot. I just gave mine to “Faith Farms” about 10 yrs ago, Im 63 now, and it still worked, not as good as it did in 1967 but it worked. I cant remember what teams I had,,,lol,,lol,,lol,,,

By: ialwayswantedtobeabanker

ialwayswantedtobeabanker — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:10:53 +0000

NFL Films has a clip out there where ex-Houston Oiler WR Mike Renfro describes why he, the Oilers and the rest of the NFL were terrified of PIT MLB Jack Lambert.

Speaking of Lambert, Renfro says something like, “Uhhhhh, the first thing you notice is that Lambert has ‘limited teeth’.”

Well, back in our day – we had limited toys.

So when some of us recall being jacked up over Intellivision, electric football, Nintendo Tecmo Bowl, etc. — it shouldn’t be that whack given the standard.

By: kingcarlbanks

kingcarlbanks — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:18:18 +0000

Growing up a Nintendo kid, i logged many an hour playing Tecmo Bowl and Super Tecmo Bowl. Loved playing with the Giants bc LT and Carl Banks were sack machines. Of course on offense the Bo Jackson/Marcus Allen Raiders were beasts, and the Bills aerial attack was unstoppable. Simpler times…

By: thegreatgabbert

thegreatgabbert — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:14:50 +0000

Mr PFT was stuffed in the cupboard in the upper middle of the photo, by the kids playing the game. Again.

By: finsfan71

finsfan71 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:43:14 +0000

I remember begging my father to buy the electric football game. I also vivdly remember him telling me it was garbage. Well, he was right and after wasting 1 hour watching the players move around in a circle, back to the store it went.

Also had an Intelivision. Their was this end run play that would always score. My friends couldn’t stop it.

By: mikeheruki

mikeheruki — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:39:24 +0000

This and Bas-Ket with the ping pong ball for hoops games. And of course the hockey game with the rods and metal players that came with three pucks; wood, magnet and plastic with the ball bearing in the middle.

Never could beat my dad.

By: ialwayswantedtobeabanker

ialwayswantedtobeabanker — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:33:57 +0000

@ flannlv:

Intellivision Baseball 101 tip: if you’re “on defense” (i.e., fielding) -and- the batter hits the ball to Left or Center Field, hit the Second Baseman with the cut-off and then peg it to First.

You’ll get sharp cleans throws. It actually expedites getting the ball to First by eliminating the possibility of the candy-armed throw outfielders would float out at times.

Fun game back in the day.

By: hempoilcures

hempoilcures — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:22:16 +0000

Best games for football to play at that time was Negamco and Strat-o-Matic…I was a junkie, kept books of stats of every game, football, hockey, boxing and some baseball. Me and my best friend would play for hours. Some times we wouldn’t speak for days after a huge come back win or just all out fluke win.

By: truthhurtstoo

truthhurtstoo — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:20:42 +0000

A simpler time…. better in many ways.

By: ialwayswantedtobeabanker

ialwayswantedtobeabanker — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:17:52 +0000

Exactly.

Electric football somehow was both a really cool must-have back in the day – while also being frustrating as hell. It’s kind of fun thinking back to those days.

And yeah, Intellivision had the best football game out there. In terms of moving the chains, playcall 5814 was unstoppable. [As an aside, Intellivision Baseball and Sea Battle were pretty cool too.]

Atari’s football was friggin’ HILARIOUS. What the hell was that? How did that company sign off on that product?

Mattel had a little beep-squeaking version of a battery-powered handheld game that was fun -at least when you’re a 10 year old and your only other indoor options were Hot Wheel tracks, G.I. Joe and those cars you’d pull a toothed plastic rip strip to cut ‘em loose.

By: Carl Gerbschmidt

Carl Gerbschmidt — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:12:07 +0000

Jim ” the wrong way” Marshall, I always love that one.