Kids today can't conceive of the absolute froth and frenzy we had for these little dots and games. It blew our little minds completely off of our heads. Hours and hours were dedicated to just Football 1. Football 2, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey and Soccer came along and were great fun but they didn't have the 'newness' that Football 1 and Auto Racing did. It was the 1st glorious step into video and electronic games!!!
Yess , I'm sitting here smiling ear to ear because I'm 41 and did remember playing these games like I sure did playem, it's crazy because I actually forgot about these games wow yes the memories, 85- 91 was the best hand held games, I even seen little mermaid hand held and I did play that one a lot, double dragon etc
After my father left us, in the mid-70s, our family spoiled us. It wasn't all that common to see fathers leave yet as that was more a Boomer Generation thing (and every generation since) Anyway, my Father (when we'd see him) my Mother and my Grandparents would buy us handheld games and Star Wars figures. Christmas was always magical. I remember Coleco Football, Coleco Donkey Kong, Pac Man & Frogger. There were two of us, so they'd just buy us different games. We'd end up with all of them. There was also Blip, Simon, Digital Derby and so on. From the mid-70s to the early 80s things felt so special. Every year there was something a little better. We grew up in such a cool era.
I am 52 years old and have around 60 of these classic handheld & table top games. Some of them kept from my childhood and others I acquired through the years. I still play them as much as I look at them on display. Without a doubt its nostalgia for me however I much prefer playing these games for fun rather than the current movie looking games that have no game play. I guess only the kids born in the 70's may understand me. Thank you for the video review.
When you showed the table with all the games, I saw the racing one and pointed to it yelling "That one! I had that one!". I played that thing constantly.
My brother had the Football 1 game. In Supertramp's song, "The Logical Song," you can hear the sound of a missed field goal, which is two blows of the whistle. I had the auto racing game and the baseball game. Fun times! I also remember an electronic pinball game called "Wildfire." That was fun and I played it for hours and hours.
Had the Football 2 game and I seem to remember that there was an extra hard level that you could get by holding one of the buttons down while turning the game on. Can’t remember the combination though.
I wasn't fortunate enough to get the original Mattel Football, Baseball, and Football 2 handheld games, but I did get them when they were re-released between 2000 and 2002. Even those re-releases are coming up to be 25 years old.
Mattel football, man if you had one of those especially at school back in the early 80's you were rockin. The touchdown score is burned into my psyche.
Don’t open it. Your Redline isn’t broken. It just requires you to hold the gear button down while pressing start then the Lights will work to simulate a countdown. If you just want to test all the lights, you can also hold gear and gas down together as you power on the system. Hope that works for you. Great video.
He wasn't playing it right though. You gotta jam straight up to 4th gear. I think my best time was 27 from what I recall. Those games were awesome back in 1978 waiting for the school bus. Various friends and I had Auto Race, Hockey, Football 2, Baseball, and Basketball. The Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer were the same board and case, just different colors.
I have been searching for a certain football game that I had in the very early 80s. Probably around 1980 to 82. It was a handheld game. But the unique feature was that It had a big rolling ball on it that you would spin to Advance the player.Another person would play defense to try to tackle you as you moved across the screen. The player on the screen was actually quite large. I cannot find this game anywhere.
I owned a Coleco football and Pulsonic baseball games also. I vaguely remember having a Coleco head to head baseball but can't remember if it was mine or I borrowed it.
Try holding down the Gear button and then press the start to get it started. Then you just release the gear button when light goes green to put it in 1st gear.
I have two 1977 Football's. One just says "Football". The other says "Football I", and also has an AC input jack. Can't find too much on the actual release dates or anything else. All I could find out was that they modified the original and released it along with, or after Football II but kept the copyright date the same. Do you have any insight? Are there any "Football I"s that don't have an AC in? I can't see in the video if yours does.
Honestly Football 2 looks SO much better than the Tiger Electronics I grew up with in the 90s. Sure it's just dots, but the gameplay seems solid and actually fun to play. Only issue is everyone being the same color, that would confuse me for sure.
Think theirs a Donkey Kong Jr. If I recall the jump button easnt consistent straight out of the box. They are kind of cheesy but I'm glad they made the recreation ones.
Dam straight they were awful. They were awful good. On the football ones you could pass the ball. And a crowd cheered might have been advanced football.
I'm 53 and had these games first run. Man those were great fun back in the day. I'm proud to say they were much more fun than todays games.
You gotta be 45 or older to remember/appreciate these games! Hard to believe we considered this cutting edge when we were kids!
Pushing 50! I spent a lot of time with theses handhelds!
Yess
We didn't think LED games were cutting edge. We had Commodore 64. I did love my football game even if it had 64k less ram.
It was cutting edge!
lcd games are cutting edge in my opinion, especially the first one and football i/ii. definitely better than the average mobile game
I had the football game, it was so much fun!
Kids today can't conceive of the absolute froth and frenzy we had for these little dots and games. It blew our little minds completely off of our heads. Hours and hours were dedicated to just Football 1. Football 2, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey and Soccer came along and were great fun but they didn't have the 'newness' that Football 1 and Auto Racing did. It was the 1st glorious step into video and electronic games!!!
I LOVE THIS!!!! I had every one of these games as a kid! This brings back awesome memories! THANKS!!!!
BourgeoisPhotography thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed video
Yess , I'm sitting here smiling ear to ear because I'm 41 and did remember playing these games like I sure did playem, it's crazy because I actually forgot about these games wow yes the memories, 85- 91 was the best hand held games, I even seen little mermaid hand held and I did play that one a lot, double dragon etc
Hello how are you
After my father left us, in the mid-70s, our family spoiled us. It wasn't all that common to see fathers leave yet as that was more a Boomer Generation thing (and every generation since) Anyway, my Father (when we'd see him) my Mother and my Grandparents would buy us handheld games and Star Wars figures. Christmas was always magical. I remember Coleco Football, Coleco Donkey Kong, Pac Man & Frogger. There were two of us, so they'd just buy us different games. We'd end up with all of them. There was also Blip, Simon, Digital Derby and so on. From the mid-70s to the early 80s things felt so special. Every year there was something a little better. We grew up in such a cool era.
I was a great time to be alive!
I had football 2. Great game! Thank you for posting Tim!
Football 2 by Mattel was a great game!
That Football I game brought back memories. Lot of time put into that.
Same here! Took it every I went back in the day!
These were the game boys of our times.
I was born in the 2000s and grew up with a psp, but it is really fun seeing how our parents grew up.
I am 52 years old and have around 60 of these classic handheld & table top games. Some of them kept from my childhood and others I acquired through the years. I still play them as much as I look at them on display. Without a doubt its nostalgia for me however I much prefer playing these games for fun rather than the current movie looking games that have no game play. I guess only the kids born in the 70's may understand me. Thank you for the video review.
Thanks my friend!
The redline game still works. You have to hit gear and start at the same time to start the race. You don’t hit just start.
I had the car racing game and had completely forgotten about it. Thanks for the flashback to my childhood. Now I’m off to my piano lesson.
Welcome! We had some great electronic games back in the day!!
@@timstinyarcade170 We sure did. I’m 55 years old. I had the first football game too.
When you showed the table with all the games, I saw the racing one and pointed to it yelling "That one! I had that one!". I played that thing constantly.
My brother had the Football 1 game. In Supertramp's song, "The Logical Song," you can hear the sound of a missed field goal, which is two blows of the whistle. I had the auto racing game and the baseball game. Fun times! I also remember an electronic pinball game called "Wildfire." That was fun and I played it for hours and hours.
my uncle had some of these....they are actually fun to play...for 13 seconds
Had the Football 2 game and I seem to remember that there was an extra hard level that you could get by holding one of the buttons down while turning the game on. Can’t remember the combination though.
Bring me back to those rainy days when I was a kid in the house mastering coleco Collegiate stadium football
get that funny memory feeling when I hear, and see those games sounds, and visuals
Hello how are you
My all time favorite hand held game was the Matelle football game. I always wanted a Coleco but never had one as a kid.
Same here! So happy to find Donkey Kong and now on the hunt for some of the other machines!
I wasn't fortunate enough to get the original Mattel Football, Baseball, and Football 2 handheld games, but I did get them when they were re-released between 2000 and 2002. Even those re-releases are coming up to be 25 years old.
Times flies! Glad you got to experience the 2000 releases!
The things we did to make these games feel real, pretty amazing!
Loved them all !
Lot of great games!
I loved the lights and would sometimes play in a dark closet!
Mattel football, man if you had one of those especially at school back in the early 80's you were rockin. The touchdown score is burned into my psyche.
Still love that game today!!
I still have my Football 2 that my grandparents gave me for Christmas with the original box. Still love it!
Still awesome game!!
I found this in my uncle’s junk pile in the 90s, and played it all the time. Great memories!
I had football 1 and basketball.. Great fun back in the day. :)
I had both of those Mattel electonic football games back in the early 1980s. They were so much fun.
Great games! Spent a lot of my childhood playing theses!
I'm 55 and this actually entertained us 😁
Thank u for video I’m 53 and had all of them
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed!
Don’t open it. Your Redline isn’t broken. It just requires you to hold the gear button down while pressing start then the Lights will work to simulate a countdown. If you just want to test all the lights, you can also hold gear and gas down together as you power on the system. Hope that works for you. Great video.
I’ll have to give a try. I never did open it. Thanks
Yah I had all those except redline and the car racing one. Good times.
Mattel Hockey and Coleco Electronic Quarterback were my two favorites.
Great games!
Mattel Auto Race!
First fully electronic handheld game.
played the heck out of that one and Coleco Electronic Quarterback back in the late 70s.
He wasn't playing it right though. You gotta jam straight up to 4th gear. I think my best time was 27 from what I recall. Those games were awesome back in 1978 waiting for the school bus. Various friends and I had Auto Race, Hockey, Football 2, Baseball, and Basketball. The Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer were the same board and case, just different colors.
every timeline starts with mattel auto race!
Red Line was my jam back in the day, my friends and I played that one for years, well into our high school years...
Hmmm... now I need to find one...
I have been searching for a certain football game that I had in the very early 80s. Probably around 1980 to 82. It was a handheld game. But the unique feature was that It had a big rolling ball on it that you would spin to Advance the player.Another person would play defense to try to tackle you as you moved across the screen. The player on the screen was actually quite large. I cannot find this game anywhere.
I don’t remember seeing that one but sounds fun! I’ll see if i can do some research and look it up
Hours playing the Coleco Electronic Quarterback! Also loved both Football 1 and 2
Played that football game in high school in the 80s
I owned a Coleco football and Pulsonic baseball games also. I vaguely remember having a Coleco head to head baseball but can't remember if it was mine or I borrowed it.
Great games!
Redline was so awesome.
Love it! The sounds were awesome also
56-year-old here I had a lot of these in the late 70s- early 80s
Great memories!! 54 here!
I remember playing football 2 growing up
I had football two. Once I learned how to pass, it became a fun game.
Great game!
The American football game is the one from That 70s show that Kelso was playing.
Love this game!
Still have my BattleStar Galactica games.
Try holding down the Gear button and then press the start to get it started. Then you just release the gear button when light goes green to put it in 1st gear.
I still own the football II game which I was quite good at in the day... best handheld every made I think :_)
That's cool saying that I remember that from years ago when I was a kid
Born in 75... love this!
I had the frogger game like the donkey Kong game. I had some rechargeable ni-cad batteries. lol
Football 2 was the best. Played the others, but never physically held Red Line or the first one. No one I knew had them.
I have two 1977 Football's. One just says "Football". The other says "Football I", and also has an AC input jack. Can't find too much on the actual release dates or anything else. All I could find out was that they modified the original and released it along with, or after Football II but kept the copyright date the same. Do you have any insight? Are there any "Football I"s that don't have an AC in? I can't see in the video if yours does.
I have that football game now
Honestly Football 2 looks SO much better than the Tiger Electronics I grew up with in the 90s. Sure it's just dots, but the gameplay seems solid and actually fun to play. Only issue is everyone being the same color, that would confuse me for sure.
Football 2 is one of my favorites!
Think theirs a Donkey Kong Jr.
If I recall the jump button easnt consistent straight out of the box.
They are kind of cheesy but I'm glad they made the recreation ones.
6 year old me could not, for the life of me, figure out that damned Mattel Football game.
i love them😍😍😍😍😍
Man, I am so pleased I was born in 2023 I missed all this rubish period.
I had all of these except for of course the Coleco tabletops because our parents were too cheap 😂 but I have them all now! Mwahaha
Coleco tabletops where hot item back in the day!
@@timstinyarcade170 none of this high res graphics and sound nonsense!
@@timstinyarcade170 only the spoiled rich kids got them they were $60 bucks!
Auto racing goes 4 laps go as fast as you can the counter is your time. When you finish 4th lap that's how few last you went with the timer on top
YUP! I owned a few of these handheld games back in the 70's. The graphics were incredible. NOT
"One had to use their imagination back then."
I used to have Autoracing in 1979!
Wtf i still have the green football one. I’ve never been able to figure out how to play it
for the footbal...why didn't they have the runner in a different colour? All same color looks too bloody confusing.
I was so fascinated by these games and was compelled to own at least one. Until the NES was invented.
These games look awful but I appreciate you sharing this with me, it was still cool to see them.
Dam straight they were awful. They were awful good.
On the football ones you could pass the ball.
And a crowd cheered might have been advanced football.
"YOUR AN OLD MAN!" SCOTT ANDREW RICHARDSON.
I was unbeatable at football one and 2.
Second generation black 🤑
Yes yes i ñew
Car game is annoying sound wise for parents backbthen
Pretty loud game for sure
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