Old School Gaming...

My Nana is the best. My wife was over visiting her yesterday and Nana gave her something she had been holding on to for many years. Nana told her that my sister and I used to fight over it. Yes, it is an actual working Parker Brothers Merlin from 1978. All I had to do was clean the battery contacts and drop in some new batteries and it powered right up after a bit of noise. This thing is built solid. How many GameBoys do you think are going to still be working after 25 years?

It plays 6 games. Yes, count 'em, six. That's six exciting beep and blinkerific games.

It plays all your old favorites like:

• Tic Tac Toe
• Music Machine (It's a lean mean beeping machine)
• Echo (A copy of Simon, another great game from the 70's)
• Blackjack 13 (what it sounds like)
• Magic Square (Heck if I know)
• Mindbender (don't remember this either)

This thing would amuse me for hours on end. It was the GameBoy of its era. If you'd like to try your hand at what we considered cutting edge in 1978 there is a Virtual Merlin. Yeah, it's a Windows app. I had to find a windows machine to try it out.

: Been It from the album "First Band On The Moon" by The Cardigans Posted by Tony at January 30, 2004 11:23 AM | TrackBack