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I was going to say "Operation" but was just reminded by another post that Xylophones existed so that was probably it.
I still have it somewhere, the big problem was the little white wire that connected the stylus, after a lot of use the kinks on the wire started to break Also had a space invaders hand held, basically just worked by illuminating pre-defined images and would light up and off as they marched across. Unfortunately Christmas Afternoon one of my nephews came to visit and he hammered the keys so heavily that the game was broken by Christmas Day Evening
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Not sure when electronic toys came in but I didn't have any
I suppose scalextric was around when I was a kid and train sets which would have been plugged in to the lecky .............would that make them electronic or just electric? anyway I didn't have any of them I had a bike and a sense of adventure |
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Can't remember my first ever toy but I did play Speak n Spell and Lights Alive (was that electronic? Can't remember..)
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Not sure which was first, but I had a Corgi Frisco Disco record player, a Stylophone & a mini Casio keyboard.
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A dachshund that walked and yapped.
I had one too, the same as the one that Basil Brush had, called Ticker, when I took it out of the box it's tail was broken and hanging off
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I can't remember which one came first but here are the earliest electronic toys that I can remember having.
Lite Bright Spacenik Matchbox Motorway Moon Explorer |
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An Alphie robot circa 1980. Here he is:
https://www.google.com/search?q=alph...LK3f1H1BRQM%3A |
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A dildo.
My Mum told my Dad that all he had to do was put labels on the presents and he couldn't even get that right. She got my stick of rock. Neither of us were happy. |
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Major Morgan, I think. A legend in the electronic toy world.
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Seems most toys are electronic these days, but thinking back my first electronic toy in the 70's was a Chad Valley Sliderama projector with a Rupert Bear theme. It was a lurid orange projector which took three D cells and you pulled a strip of film through to tell a story in 6 frames. It was very dim and drank batteries.
Just for nostalgia I won an example on eBay this week and tried it out again after a 30 year gap. Well it was actually good fun and I had a laugh using it. Yes, the pictures were a bit blurry and the whole thing glowed orange but it was fun, and that is what a toy is about after all. So what was your first electronic toy? Was it any good?
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Grandstand Astro Wars.
My first electronic toy (game) was the Grandstand Mini Golf which I bought to play with at work. The reason I got it was all my colleagues had handheld small screen games but you couldn't pause them, so whenever the 'phone went the game kept playing. With the Mini Golf, it waits for you to make the shot. I've been using it as an alarm clock for the last 20 or so years and only the odd game of golf when I recharge the batts every 6 months or so. The clock keeps perfect time. |
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I had a stylophone too. 2 silicon transistors, a multivibrator with resistor ladder, cost a ridiculous ten quid, and on the box was a picture of Rolf Harris grinning .........
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Gameboy colour, i think.
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My projector is Chad Valley. Its odd in a way because it is super flimsy but still made in the UK. The instructions even say to expect the lens to have scratches and marks from new.
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I can't remember which came first, the rail layout or the radio control boat with electric engine. This was the very early 60s, a radio control boat was pretty cool then.
I have to confess that although they were nominaly mine, me dad built them with me and when we went down the boat lake he took his yacht or the taplin twin powered 36inch model rescue launch which was a lethal weapon if you lost control of it. He had a trailer attached to his push bike to transport them and we made tea in the model boat club clubhouse. It were a different world back then
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Grandstand Video Sports Centre console, same as this.....
https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.co...f/original.jpg It was a Christmas present to my brother and myself in 1980. Still got it, and it still works.
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If you mean battery operated then i remember having a fisher price tape player when i was 2 or 3.
The earliest electric toy i remember was a Scalextric when i think i was somewhere between 3 and 6. |
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Can't remember my first ever toy but I did play Speak n Spell and Lights Alive (was that electronic? Can't remember..)
I held onto that much longer than I should. One of my favourite childhood toys actually. I had Operation but it was second hand & never worked so completely useless.
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Had a small 'TV' that played music and had illustrations of nursery rhymes on it that just went round and round. It was very 70s.
It annoys me that I can't remember details of the pictures. I should do, I studied it enough. |
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SIMON - the game where you had to copy the sequence of bleeps/lights that the game emitted.
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Mine too. I loved it!
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Well the first electric powered on was an all whistling , chuffing and lights blazing steam engine. I asked about this toy some more and so the story goes a friend of my dad's was so impressed with it his got his son one for Christmas too.
Next up my Scalextric sets, another one of those toys I dearly loved playing with. Finally Battlestar Galactica by Mattel a palm size space invaders style game. That saw many hours of playing with too. |
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I had one of those Tomy turbo racer things. It looked fantastic on the advert but was quite disappointing even for a 6 year old in the 80s. It was nothing like driving a performance car at all, it just made a noise and a car moved on a tiny screen and that was it. Oh, and it took those awful D size batteries that lasted for about 2 minutes.
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First actual game was a pocket Space Invaders with LED's, remember getting sad after I figured out how to beat it the day I got it.
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