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no no they’re not dating. they’re a bonded pair and can’t be adopted separately.

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Recent addition to my collection of pre-LCD handheld games, Tomy Tennis from 1982.

I've talked about it before but I have a love of electronic games produced in this narrow window of time after integrated circuit chips got cheap but before there were any good options for displaying graphics besides TV.

This would be late 70s to early 80s, and there was a lot of creativity to make portable games that actually gave you understandable output. LEDs were often used or in this case, vacuum florescent displays (VFDs) that allowed arbitrary shapes to be illuminated with that characteristic blue-green glow.

By the time you get to the mid 80s cheap monochrome LCDs were in production and these games vanished. You can understand why, this game requires four C batteries to feed the power hungry VFD, and probably would drain them in an hour or less.

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