Gabriel's Chutes Away was one of those games I often requested but never received. It's pre video game functionality is something we don't see much anymore.
Ka-ching! Memory alert! Brian, you've done it yet again. Found a toy that triggered a memory from the deep recesses of my (deranged?) mine. This has happened at least half dozen times on this website. Bravo man, thanks!
but, speaking of pre-video game functionality. I remember having a battery-powered flying-a-spacehip scroller game that was fully mechanical. about the size of a hardcover book, it had a scrolling paper field of stars, planets and asteroids and a little plastic spacehip you steered on a levered steering wheel.
Man, it made the LED football games seem like high-tech!
@JohnIII: We've got to come up with a word for that, as it happens so much.
You got it arknobey. I'll work on it. And you know what? That scrolling game you had, I believe I had too. I'd have to see a picture of it to be sure, but I think so.
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That's an expensive toy for back then...
ReplyDeleteKa-ching! Memory alert! Brian, you've done it yet again. Found a toy that triggered a memory from the deep recesses of my (deranged?) mine. This has happened at least half dozen times on this website. Bravo man, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI only barely remember this.
ReplyDeletebut, speaking of pre-video game functionality. I remember having a battery-powered flying-a-spacehip scroller game that was fully mechanical. about the size of a hardcover book, it had a scrolling paper field of stars, planets and asteroids and a little plastic spacehip you steered on a levered steering wheel.
Man, it made the LED football games seem like high-tech!
@JohnIII: We've got to come up with a word for that, as it happens so much.
You got it arknobey. I'll work on it. And you know what? That scrolling game you had, I believe I had too. I'd have to see a picture of it to be sure, but I think so.
ReplyDeleteLet's see, a Stallion moment? A 70's moment? I know, a my-life-was-so-much-better-then moment? LOL
ReplyDelete"Gabriel's Chutes Away was one of those games I often requested but never received."
ReplyDeleteMy experience exactly. Sigh.
I had this game! I loved it! Much better than flight-simulator video game...
ReplyDeleteI had a neighbor who had this game. Didn't Dick van Dyke do the TV commercial for it?
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