Looking at all the retro hand held games, I just realized I had a majority of them when I was a kid and took them for granted. These vids take me back, and I just made me appreciate my parents a lot more.

Ah, childhood memories! I remember getting one of these for Christmas... It was pretty fun at the time. Those flashing red LEDs were in everything - even my STAR WARS TIE Fighter had one...

I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN I OPENED THIS XMAS MORNING ..... I LOVED IT

never thought I'd see one of those again. nice one.

this was my favorite game as a kid...I'm buggin out just watching...GIVE IT TO ME!

Flashback... so much fun, I spoke about this game for years.. with so much games out there I never thought I would ever see this game ever again...

I just got one of these. My brother and I used to own it back in '77. I always used the shifter to allow the cars to pass at different speeds.

One of my best games as a kid...there was more to it than teh way this driver is showing..there was ways to avoid the collisions...but as today..not everyone with a car license, really knows how to drive. Thanks for the memories though.

I had this handed down from my cousin. God this brings back memories. Must have been 1984. Thanks for the video.

The sad thing is that I remember the "trick" on how to get the high score on this thing. The person demonstrating needs to downshift to 1st gear occasionally. Second gear is mostly worthless. You need to keep it in 3rd gear as long as you can for the maximum score. Why am I telling everyone this? This is pathetic.

@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel

4 жыл бұрын

By using second, third, and occasionally neutral, it's possible to get through the game with zero crashes (and no center-line "sneak throughs"). First was only supposed to be used at the game start. I'd post a demo if I hadn't been so dumb as to sell mine in a yard sale about 15 years back.

@huejass1325

4 жыл бұрын

GrnXnham 😳

This takes me back!

OMG!!!! I had that toy when I was a kid!!! LUVED IT!!!!! Thanks for the memories!

Man, I loved this game.

I thought second gear was useless too, but then I realized one time that it can be used to get around the double cars by slowing one lane down and help maximize the score.

Reminds me of Christmas 1978 and my dad. He has now passed away, but I so remember him getting me this game.

Loved this game as a kid!!

DUUUUUUDE! THAT IS EVEN THE SAME COUCH WE HAD WHEN I WAS A KID!!!!!! awesome video! thank your not talking thru this. this was a perfect memory flashback!!

@skinny9283

8 жыл бұрын

+alitlweird Chiclettes Pillow too.

@1995arv

4 жыл бұрын

Speaking of that couch are you sure he's not playing that game inside of a motorhome?

@alitlweird

3 жыл бұрын

Most likely he’s playing it in a #finishedbasement somewhere in the Midwest. 😎❤️

@MichaelTBishop

2 жыл бұрын

We had that couch too. I loved play that game.

💜🧡💚💙🤎🧡 I had this when I was a kid. Awesome!!!!

Wow this brings me back lol. I had one when I was a kid :)

down shift...down shift!!!! Had this in '78-79...made us the most popular kids on the block! (for about half an hour).

I remember I loved the kind of burning rubber electrical smell it emitted when you played it for a long time.

that noise drove my parents to go out back and break with with dads work boots, good times

Cool vid! I had one in the early 80's can't remember exactly what year. I wish I still had it. It was way more fun than all those Tiger games.

Had this as a kid. Would love to have one on the shelf for nostalgic reasons. :)

AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!!!

Great memory! I had this one as well. When batteries run out you can drive without it gets penalty and I achieved maximum points of 112. Excellent game!

Man, that noise by itself takes me back.

i loved this!!! it was so fun.

1978? WOW!!! I was just at a flea market this month OCT 2012 and someone was selling one of these!!!

I just bought this yesterday at a value village for $3 bucks...looks like a lot of fun! can't wait to get some batteries for this beast ;)

Loved this game as a kid.

i remember getting one of these for Christmas about 78 to cool.

YES! That's it! Thanks. I never would have remembered that on my own, but I googled it and the photo is exactly the game I had.

Oh wow, I remember this game.

I had one of these and it lasted about a month before we got bored with it. I remember you could put the car in the center and never have to move it and the other race cars would pass by. It used 2 plastic tracks with cars printed on them.

@Hot80s I actually found a working Blip in perfect condition one time at goodwill 4 years ago. Brought back alot of memories.

@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Blip lol

Got me scrolling through old school games and bringing back memories. Now I'm going to search for the table top games. I'll start with Popeye and work may way to Donkey Kong.

I left my one on the dash of my grandmothers Holden back in the early 80's, melted real good. Sniff sniff.

I have not seen this since I was a small child in the hospital in 1987. I almost forgot this existed.

My dad has one of these and I used to play with it as a kid a lot.

Oh, my. My dad let me play this when I was a kid because he played it too. Good times, though the noise with the flashing red light always gave me nightmares o.o

OH MY GOD, I had this as a kid!!!!!11 THANK YOU!!!

oh I forgot about this. Played this when I spent a few days in hospital. I let my roommate play it too. I remember his face being all bruised up for something. Hell, I was in the fourth grade...

I had one of these when I was a kid. I think the timing on one of the gears on yours might be a little off. From what I remember, the cars were always timed really well to allow your car to pass. They got close, but I don't recall them ever getting parallel and blocking your car like they did in this video multiple time. I seem to remember the thing actually having a timing where there was always a tiny gap for you to zip through before the cars hit the point where they were parallel. I also recall taking mine apart to see how this mechanism worked. You should check it out. It's a piece of simple mechanical genius. You'd be amazed at how simple the mechanism is when you pop the back off.

Got one of these for Christmas in the 70's . Played it until one of my older sister's broke it. Awesome thanks 👍 Red line game made by Kenner ?? Anyone

Wow not seen one of those for a very long time! Thanks for sharing.

@mariogutierrez7991

4 жыл бұрын

The Retro Shed I’ll sell you one

@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel

4 жыл бұрын

@@mariogutierrez7991 I might consider taking you up on that.

Wow, I had completely forgotten about this game, I got it for Christmas 78 I believe.

Just saw this on the Goldbergs

i have this its awesome lol i got it from a garage sale my friends allways trying to play it

Found this game in my attic last week. Memory lane.

i just put mine on ebay, along with my hit and missile....i loved tomy games

Just found this in my closet. I bought it at a garage sale about 10 years ago. I gotta go buy some C batteries!

This actually looks kind of cool. I would have loved to have had one of these growing up.

Just went through a box of old toys and stuff at my dad's after watching this and found a digital derby auto raceway in it

I had one of these back in the day...Small and compact, they worked exactly like the old arcade-style electro-mechanical photoelectric sensor image projection race games that were popular in the early to mid 1970's...These types of games disappeared when fully computerized CRT-based gaming technology began to take hold...When you crashed, the crash light appeared, and the lap points would be held back for a moment after you resumed, and like their old stand-up cabinet counterparts, the race was over when the timeclock on the upper left reached full circle...

I have one that I picked up at a Christmas Fair around the mid 80s.

In a time when it was cheaper to fake digital with mechanical than do the digital thing. I fondly remember this one.

I always loved the moving parts of this game

I had this game, blip & alot of others growin up.

Had this growing up. Played it to death. It ate batteries for breakfast. I somehow managed to break it so that the crash would never happen. Turned out that a wire can unsoldered and the connection never happened.

Damn that's awesome!

Not sure about the "Hit and Missle" game, but Digital Derby sells on E-bay for around $50 (vintage status toy). I wish I still had mine! My son and I would have a blast! Forget Nintendo DS and Playstation 3! I'll take motor-powered moving plastic tracks with red lightbulbs any day!

lol.. just noise of it takes me back...

If you just keep it in that 'sweet spot' you'll never get hit. 😎👍

OMG I had one of these! I completely forgot about it.

Like all my other toys, I had some bizzare knock off of this as a kid. It was a car on a stick and a cartoon road would scroll beneath it. You were meant to follow the road, but if you drove over a house, it didn't matter. It was just a drawing and no buzzers or anything went off. I wonder if it's still packed away somewhere.

That is pretty cool!

Ha ha, I had one of those, forgot how annoying that "collision" sound was. Looks like yours is in good shape!

got mine today at belgium from the usa for a cheap price and its a awesome game

Great! I had one with a yellow steering wheel. Was funny to play.

I had this game back in '78. I think we had the same couch too.

best minute, forty nine seconds I've seen on You Tube yet!!!!!

C batteries these things ate. Fun for a day. Kudos to all of you who didn't have baby boomer parents who didn't give all their stuff away to good will.

I remember learning to drive on one !

That's what Darth Vader plays in that low pressure chamber of his...

I had one, brings back memories. if I recall you could get just center and go thru the game without touching the wheel. well, maybe that was a different game. pole position ? thanks for the vid.

ahhh the memories.

I remember playing this and Blip! Back in the late 70s. It was mostly mechanical ... and not very electronic... but a classic nonetheless:)

I got one of these from Santa back in the day!

Had this game myself back in the day and it was great fun! Funny, now that I reflect on it, that it was called "Digital..." but it wasn't digital at all! This was, technically, a MECHANICAL game but regardless, I loved it anyway.

Classic!!!

Now that i think about it, I had something like this when I was young, I had 2 of them, I believe they were called Fun To Drive cars, or something like that, and they aren't as good as this, I don't have mine any more.

Me too. ;)

Cool

Thats a brilliant machine!! Love the way it sounds its got something jammed in some cogs inside when you crash!! Is there a coveyor belt inside with real moving parts then?

My dad found his, but it does not turn on. Maybe needs cleaning? Also Batteries don't stay in due to the fact the battery compartment cover is missing.

I still have mine. Cool

reminds me of Sega's 1979 Monaco GP arcade game.

Sweet..........

there is a way to beat the game. drive fast in high gear when a car approaches slide it into lower gear. the car in front of you will stay in front of you while the other car in the opposite other lane starts to fall behind. Once the car passes then you go into the other lane. put it in high gear then you will pass the other car. When the other car approaches then repeat.

@GrnXnham

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can tell that the person in this video never played the game as a kid. When I was 10 years old, it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to totally avoid crashing by doing the gear shifting trick.

@electricafroman

7 жыл бұрын

yep!!

@bavariasuhl

6 жыл бұрын

exactly - you got to shuffle up and down the gears ..

I got 1 for Christmas in `78

i used to have this too!

grind those gears man , it's the only way to get around the cars, or cheat and hold the reset button half down and timer will still go but no crashes

I had this!

how detection works?

Are the engine sounds mechanically generated with these toys?

I would annoy my older brother with this game

Dude, you have to work the gears more..... I loved this game!

@montemillar2379

4 жыл бұрын

exactly!!!

did you get that couch in 78 too?

In the UK this was called the Argos racemaster 3000 :-(