1969 Midway Sea Raider Arcade Game advertisement
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Lakeside Toys, Inc. // Computer Perfection // Electronic game (US, 1979)
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Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (THUG2) for PlaySation 2.
Scan of game cover insert.
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Looks like my new ambition in life is to find and play this circa 1970 electromechanical Apollo 14 game, that I only recently discovered existed. Only 5 known working machines left, in the hands of private collectors. I did find a video of someone playing one:
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Physogs card game · 1940s
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · original storage for the game
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Face / frame card (1 of 4)
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth)
Physogs or having fun with a very sexist, misogynist and racist game; not surprising at all from a game based on a “science” like physiognomy.
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth)
Physogs, a British game from the 1940s, is a popularized version of physiognomy, the art of judging human character from facial features. Based on sociologist Jacques Penry's How to Judge Character from the Face (1939), the game consists of fifty-six...
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Further to my previous post about my Game & Watch handheld, I've since rediscovered the name of the other one I owned. Turns out it was called Monster Panic and I thought it was kind of rework of Donkey Kong, but after seeing this 1981 advert for it I then remembered that there was a bit more to it. I don't remember mine being yellow - I thought mine was white - but perhaps there were various colours available. Or I'm just remembering it wrong.
I love the little images of different bits of the game, especially the fight with the skeleton.
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