Dark Tower was and still is one of the coolest board games of all time.

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the most fun and unique.

I have to agree the hand held football game was the best!

I remember my grandparents having the electric football. At the begening of the video. Great Content! 👍🏻🇺🇲

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

Thanks again ZMan!

Still have my copy of Electronic Talking Battleship and Electronic handheld Battleship from when I was a kid in the 90's

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

Nice! Do you dig them out now and then to play a round or two?

@bluetarantulaproductions6179

Ай бұрын

@@RetroDaze Every now and then I will.

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

Nice!

This was awesome! Nobody talks about Stop Thief anymore. Thanks for ths video!

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

You are most welcome Robert! Very glad you enjoyed it.

Oh my god, Orson Welles. Wild to see a legitimate genius auteur advertising a board game.

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

And to hear him voice Unicron in Transformers: The Movie!

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!

@RetroDaze

2 ай бұрын

That’s awesome Jon. Do you still have either of those versions?

@jons.6216

Ай бұрын

​@@RetroDazenot anymore! I had to get rid of the electronic version in a move. But by then, many of the pieces had fallen out of the box going from place to place! Years later, however I did find a small version of manual Battleship, but in German language! Haha!

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.

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

It looks amazing! Check out Jon’s video on it over at GenXGrownUp when you have a chance.

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.

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

It was a big improvement when they introduced the preprogrammed location setups for Battleship.

I remember Omega Virus. I always read it as O mega Virus. It was such a cool game.

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

It was definitely a step above the typical board game in design and gameplay. A lot of fun!

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!

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

Ha! One of those games that makes you anxious from anticipation. Kind of like Perfection.

@serveaux

3 ай бұрын

Yes! EXACTLY like "Perfection" and its infernal ticking! I also had a battery-operated game called "Turn the Terrible Tank" in which your base shot ball-bearings at a motorized tank to make it turn toward your opponent's base.

@RetroDaze

2 ай бұрын

We are imagining all the damage we could have caused with a ball bearing-firing tank. 😆

I still have Arcade Mania in my basement 😊❤️

@RetroDaze

2 ай бұрын

Excellent! Break it out and let’s play! 😜

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)

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

Achy back or no… we experienced one of the best times ever to be alive! So glad this video helped spark fond memories and good feelings.

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'.

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

Was that mall game called Mall Madness?

@VulpisFoxfire

Ай бұрын

@@RetroDaze Might have been, that name sounds familiar. As I said, nothing I ever owned, just stuff i remember seeing in passing at the store, that piqued my tech-geek interest. :-)

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

Understandable. Any new and different way to use current tech was bound to get at least some attention.

Omega Virus was freaking loud as hell and had no volume adjuster. Lol

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

The volume adjustment was a rag and tape. 😆

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

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

That story sounds really interesting! Go for it.

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

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

That’s a nice variety there. Even a version of Electro!

We weren't rich. Between all my friends I had only seen Operation and Simon. Mostly is was plain board games, or D & D.

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

Thankfully there were plenty of inexpensive non-electronic board games out there that were fun.

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. :-)

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

That’s very cool! Do you dig it out from time to time?

One birthday a got a whole slew of New adventures of He-man action figures and there was still a big box waiting for me. I tought it was the Starship Eternia playset. Sadly it turned out to be Electronic battleship. I was a bit dissapointed.

@RetroDaze

2 ай бұрын

Ahh. Yeah that would be disappointing. Did you still get plenty of fun out of it?

Electronic Stratego was the best, I wish Hasbro would re-release it

@RetroDaze

Ай бұрын

Or at least get some kind of Kickstarter campaign!

I always wanted the Dark Tower but never got it. The Remastered version does not look remotely worth it though. LoL. I had D&D and loved it. Always wanted Merlin and Stop Thief though, and I drooled over Omega Virus and never had it or knew anyone with it. SIDENOTE: As a couple of OG Gamers... my wife and I adore your channel. Just saying.

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! Thank you so much for watching and sharing memories. It does seem like if anyone had any of these games, they might have one and that’s it. You rarely saw folks owning multiple electronic board games.

9v battery not included!!

@RetroDaze

2 ай бұрын

Everrr! 😄

I had both Dark Tower and the D&D game. Preferred the D&D game.

@RetroDaze

3 ай бұрын

Really? Interesting. Dark tower seems to have the larger following.

@CuteLesbo69

3 ай бұрын

@@RetroDaze I was always the outcast, see my name and imagine that in the late 70's/early 80's lol

@RetroDaze

2 ай бұрын

😆 Gen X has matured enough to embrace all of our rebellious brethren… and sister…ren. Wait…