What a great video! Digital Derby is, to this day, my favorite handheld. I was only 2yo when it was released and my elder cousin had one. I played with it at every visit to his home. I liked it so much that he eventually gave it to me. I have cherished it all these years and never miss a chance to show it off!
There were three different mechanical games by this company. Digital Derby Blip i can not remember the third but we had all three of them when I was a kid.
I still own that same handheld ...since I was a little kid in the 70s, but mine, European version, is called "electronic FORMULA 1" by TOMY. I have it in my hands right now as I watch the video... next to my E.T. Atari Cartridge lol
OMG .... Adam I played that game for hours also. I did end up taking mine apart also when it broke. But I found it so amazing. Hey, now that I think about it. Aren't the patents existed? I'd love to 3D print this. If anyone makes a design copy please let me know! Or at least Adam so he can share! 🎉
My uncle was an engineer at TOMY and Kenner from the late 60's through the 80's, which meant that I got all of these games in Beta as they were working out the kinks. I was 10 years old and was telling adult engineers what was good, and bad, about these games. Digital Derby was, by far, my favorite game of the era and I probably went through three or four thanks to my uncle. I was also lucky to own just about every Evel Knievel toy that was released by Kenner in that decade. Sadly, none of them survived into adolescence.
Same here! The wave of nostalgia and memory that hit me when I saw the Digital Derby game on screen was overwhelming. My 9-year-old self would be overjoyed at being able to see the inner workings of the thing that he thought was so cool.
Dude!!! I asked for that for Christmas too!! And got it I believe in 1979. I was 5. I broke mine as well and took it apart. I saw that on the thumbnail and it brought the biggest smile to my face!! Thank you so much for bringing back this seemingly ancient memory. You rock dude. Edit: this reminded me of another game I had called Merlin. It was a red plastic digital toy that almost resembled a phone. Any chance of getting a hole of one of those to check out? I don't imagine it would be serviceable like this toy but still would be cool to cover!
I still have one of these, but it's non-functional. Thank you for this video, it will certainly help in my effort to repair it. What a marvelous piece of engineering!
I loved this game as a kid. I'm a total car person, even as a young child. I had 100s of matchbox/hot wheel cars, and I can still feel "the action" of switching the gears on this and the red button feels like. I wonder how many hours I spent playing this as a kid. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. ❤
There was also Blip! which was a mechanical version of Pong. It did have a battery which was only there to light up the LED for the ball. A wind up mechanism provided all the motion.
I, too, had both Digital Derby and Blip. I may still have them and my old Merlin in storage somewhere. Now I want to dig them out and relive old memories.
I had Blip. Completely mechanical, outside of the red LED. Not quite random...If you played it long enough you knew the pattern.... I took it apart many times... I also once saw someone use it for a Darth Vader chest box. I'm not a hundred percent on this, but I'm thinking it was a skit on a show called Fridays. May have been Michael Richards....
I forget which channel did it, but someone did a pretty fascinating breakdown and explanation of Blip on here a while back. Tomy did some incredible stuff with their engineering in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
All we had in the mid-late 80s were those water games and ball bearing labyrinth games. We did get a sneak peak from time to time at new devices that were smuggled behind the iron curtain. So from 1985 to 1995 we went through the same technology cycle as the west did from 1970 to 1990, which means everything became instantly obsolete :)
the old Radioshack Super Armatron is another great mechanical toy. I never actually had any of the little blocks and things that you're supposed to manipulate that came with it, but I had a lot of fun just making it move around.
The Super Armatron was actually another Tomy creation. Some people added computer control to the arm. If I remember correctly, solenoids to pitch the joysticks back and forth.
I had the regular original Armatron when I was a kid, so I bought one a few years ago on eBay for my kid. It’s needed some repairs/upkeep over the years, so I’ve definitely had it all apart and been fascinated how it all works by engaging various gears connected to a single central motor that constantly runs (as long as the timer is in a running position). I love it.
Everything about this is amazing: the mechanical engineering behind these old games to the digital engineering of the scanners used to look inside them.
This content is absolutely fantastic. The anthropologic joy I get from Adam exploring objects and their place in humanity is immense. I hope more of this type of stuff comes out!!
not only did I emited a vocal gasp when I saw the thumbnail, I swear I had a tactile feel in my fingers; this is how much a memory I have of this toy! This toy provided a sensory experience! A feel, a sound and even a smell! The gears and grease musta heated up when it was used and there was a specific smell (when they were new I guess). Thanks for this great video. Cheers, MC
It's fascinating how fast technology was advancing at this time. The arcade version of Pong came out in 1972, and in 1975 the home version came out. In 1982, Just 4 years after this game was released, The Commodore 64 came out. And in 1983 the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released.
Great video! Just picked this up on ebay a few months ago, as well as a Hit and Missile to round out my childhood handheld collection (Mattel Electronics Football was nowhere near as cool as these). Thanks for bringing in this new tech to look at old stuff!
Tks for the childhood flashback. I also owned a Digital Derby and loved it. I think it lingered around well into my teens but it still worked. Wish I knew where it was now. Great episode.
Wow! Memories! I loved this game as a kid. I couldn’t wait to go to my cousins house to play this game! When they finally stopped playing it they gave it to me and I was hooked!
You really are phenomenally mechanically gifted. The number of times I took apart a toy or machine, sometimes things would fly out. Regardless, rarely could I get them back together. I had anxiety watching you pull it apart - knowing what horrors I have unintentionally visited upon such lovely creations.
I inherited the same car game from an older brother. He also had a mechanical baseball game (not like the digital ones) that I never saw work -- the players you physically moved around and put in some holes were long missing before I ever remember seeing it. These scans are pretty cool, and your enthusiasm for these mechanical marvels is fun to watch. Thanks.
Tomy was the BEST when I was growing up! My mom managed the children's department of an "old fashioned" department store (the kind with different department on each floor of the building...before there were Wal-Marts and Targets everywhere), so I got to play with all the coolest toys of the late 70s/early 80's. I still have many of my Tomy pocket games, and one of my favs is the Speedway game (with magnets making the cars go around the track). Every one of those games still works totally fine after all these years. Pure joy!
Hey Adam. I had a Digital Derby too. I also had its predecessor, “Blip” which was a mechanical pong game, where the “ball” was an LED swinging back and forth on a mechanical arm between 2 players.
There was a whole series of games from Tomy called Pocketeers which were also called Pocketmates in Japan. They were pocket sized versions of these types of game and were really fascinating and very inventive in their many variations.
Man! I remember finding my dad's game like this at my grandma's house and playing with it even though I had an SNES. I remember the light vibration and God awful noise, but I was mesmerized by it because as a milinial I had never seen anything like it. I knew it was something special and seeing this video brought back so much nostalgia for me. In a very different way than someone growing up with one, but childhood nostalgia none the less. 😂
Really cool!! I grew up in the same era and instantly recognized his references to the water-filled hoop games, as well as all the electromechanical games of the time that you'd run across in Radio Shack, especially around Christmas.
Wow, the 35mm film and the 8mm lane divider film brought back so many memories of working in a film lab back in the 80's. Good old Kodak Safety film!! 8mm was actually 35mm slit into 4-8mm rolls, that slitter was the bane of my existence for almost a year. Every minute adjustment could bring instant disaster and trigger a "re-print" which would send the Supervisor into a Verbal rant.... Really cool video Adam!!!
TOMY engineers were next level ! I am lucky enough to still have my Atomic Pinball from TOMY , a D batteries devouring , mechanical noise machine from that era...The solutions they found to somehow recreate the "digital" feel with only gears and a motor were no less than remarkable . Also the game BLIP (a sort of Pong clone) inner workings had me puzzled to this day.
@@njones420YES! You made me remember I still have my "Run yourself ragged" in a box , which is actually the same game as screwball-scramble !! Great memmories !
@@theforso So last year (2023) they released "Screwball Scramble Level 2" ... which connects to the side of the original game to continue it :) ...just had to wait 43 years
I got this derby game at my grandparents in the 2000's I was about 10yo and never got to play very far. But this toy had me intrigued, with those mechanical sounds. A very hypnotizing experience.
Loooooved DD when I got it for Christmas as a kid. Took it apart and managed to get it back together and functional too. A rarity for the dissected toys of my youth!
I got a Digital Derby for Christmas back in 1981 when I 7. It was one of my favorite childhood toys! I wish I still had the thing, but I wore it out playing it all the time.
Still have this. My cousins brought this from the states 1979 brought this to west germany in 1982 and nobody had seen something like this. Had other electromechanical games but this was the best! It still works
I got a laser cutter recently and have been working on more and more complex mechanisms. I hope to build a handheld game of some sort out of wood eventually. EDIT: I have always been fascinated by mechanical things, so being able to now design and build my own devices is like a dream come true.
I have fond memories of playing Digital Derby as a kid. It was my favorite game! Sitting in the backseat of my parents 1979 Ford LTD heading to my Grandparents house in Mississippi for vacation and holidays. Also had the Mattel Classic Baseball game. Needless to say we had to carry a lot of extra C and AA batteries. I still have my Digital Derby and Baseball game to this day.
digital derby !!! total childhood flashback, i spent a very long time playing this when i was little. as far as i knew it wasnt sold in the uk and my dad brought me one from overseas so none of my friends had seen it. i wish i knew what happened to it. it was my favourite toy at the time/
Awesome. I forgot about that one. Was so good. There needs to be more of these mechanical games invented! Surely now ai could assist with design engineering.
Oh my goodness this game just woke up the 9 year old little awkward nerdy boy in me that really I will always be. I can't even comprehend just how much I loved this game and literally played for hours and hours and what my optometrist blamed was causing my bad eye sight as a kid. Oh how I loved this game. Thank you for sharing, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy and remember to SMILE 😊 God Bless 🙏
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What a great video! Digital Derby is, to this day, my favorite handheld. I was only 2yo when it was released and my elder cousin had one. I played with it at every visit to his home. I liked it so much that he eventually gave it to me. I have cherished it all these years and never miss a chance to show it off!
There were three different mechanical games by this company.
Digital Derby
Blip
i can not remember the third but we had all three of them when I was a kid.
I still own that same handheld ...since I was a little kid in the 70s, but mine, European version, is called "electronic FORMULA 1" by TOMY. I have it in my hands right now as I watch the video... next to my E.T. Atari Cartridge lol
OMG .... Adam I played that game for hours also. I did end up taking mine apart also when it broke. But I found it so amazing. Hey, now that I think about it. Aren't the patents existed? I'd love to 3D print this. If anyone makes a design copy please let me know! Or at least Adam so he can share! 🎉
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My uncle was an engineer at TOMY and Kenner from the late 60's through the 80's, which meant that I got all of these games in Beta as they were working out the kinks. I was 10 years old and was telling adult engineers what was good, and bad, about these games. Digital Derby was, by far, my favorite game of the era and I probably went through three or four thanks to my uncle. I was also lucky to own just about every Evel Knievel toy that was released by Kenner in that decade. Sadly, none of them survived into adolescence.
Sound like Tom Hanks from the movie “Big”😊
LOL NO YOU DIDNT
Lol those Evel Knievel toys took a beating, every damn day.
@@anderj235minus the boy pedophilia with the boy and older women
Yes, but did you manage to market and promote yourself well enough to earn monetary compensation for your valuable feedback???
I had this game as a kid, and I totally had forgotten about it until this video. Thanks for the revived memories!
I also mentioned that I had forgotten about owning this. But, it served a dual purpose. It was also my tricorder.
Same here. Spent so much time playing it.
@@markp2085 Perfect!
Same here! The wave of nostalgia and memory that hit me when I saw the Digital Derby game on screen was overwhelming. My 9-year-old self would be overjoyed at being able to see the inner workings of the thing that he thought was so cool.
Ya me too!
Adam I had that game as a kid. (58yrs old). Actually still have it to this day. Never seen another one until now. Awesome
Dude!!! I asked for that for Christmas too!! And got it I believe in 1979. I was 5. I broke mine as well and took it apart. I saw that on the thumbnail and it brought the biggest smile to my face!! Thank you so much for bringing back this seemingly ancient memory. You rock dude. Edit: this reminded me of another game I had called Merlin. It was a red plastic digital toy that almost resembled a phone. Any chance of getting a hole of one of those to check out? I don't imagine it would be serviceable like this toy but still would be cool to cover!
No way! I bought one of these at a garage sale last summer and I was absolutely blown away by it, one of my favorite things I got last year
I still have one of these, but it's non-functional. Thank you for this video, it will certainly help in my effort to repair it. What a marvelous piece of engineering!
Hope you’re able to repair it now! Keep us posted!
I loved this game as a kid. I'm a total car person, even as a young child. I had 100s of matchbox/hot wheel cars, and I can still feel "the action" of switching the gears on this and the red button feels like. I wonder how many hours I spent playing this as a kid. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. ❤
Same! Played this for hours. It was amazing.
Same! My brother got this one for Christmas, and I got the Mattel Electronics [hand-held] Football game, with the 3x9 red LED display.
@@CineSoarI had both also. Played with them tons.
There was also Blip! which was a mechanical version of Pong. It did have a battery which was only there to light up the LED for the ball. A wind up mechanism provided all the motion.
We have that too !
I, too, had both Digital Derby and Blip. I may still have them and my old Merlin in storage somewhere. Now I want to dig them out and relive old memories.
I had Blip. Completely mechanical, outside of the red LED. Not quite random...If you played it long enough you knew the pattern.... I took it apart many times... I also once saw someone use it for a Darth Vader chest box. I'm not a hundred percent on this, but I'm thinking it was a skit on a show called Fridays. May have been Michael Richards....
I forget which channel did it, but someone did a pretty fascinating breakdown and explanation of Blip on here a while back. Tomy did some incredible stuff with their engineering in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
That guys voice and confidence was memorizing. He played along while letting Adam discover the bits and bobs.
I use to play that! I forgot all about it. Love it!
All we had in the mid-late 80s were those water games and ball bearing labyrinth games. We did get a sneak peak from time to time at new devices that were smuggled behind the iron curtain. So from 1985 to 1995 we went through the same technology cycle as the west did from 1970 to 1990, which means everything became instantly obsolete :)
Remember playing with a labyrinth maze with a bead of mercury in it at Kmart. 😁 Then chit it split 🤪
the old Radioshack Super Armatron is another great mechanical toy. I never actually had any of the little blocks and things that you're supposed to manipulate that came with it, but I had a lot of fun just making it move around.
The Super Armatron was actually another Tomy creation. Some people added computer control to the arm. If I remember correctly, solenoids to pitch the joysticks back and forth.
Loved it too, and I still have mine! It still works. I almost bought something so it could be controlled by my Tandy Color Computer 😂
I had the regular original Armatron when I was a kid, so I bought one a few years ago on eBay for my kid. It’s needed some repairs/upkeep over the years, so I’ve definitely had it all apart and been fascinated how it all works by engaging various gears connected to a single central motor that constantly runs (as long as the timer is in a running position).
I love it.
I got one for $5 at a local thrift store when I was like 13. Opening it up for cleaning was an adventure. The gear trains and such were genius.
I had a Mobile Armatron in the late 1980's thru Early 1990's. It was a lot of fun making it drive around and pickup and move various things.
Digital Derby! Owned it. Loved it. Thanks for bringing back the memories Adam!
Everything about this is amazing: the mechanical engineering behind these old games to the digital engineering of the scanners used to look inside them.
Oh wow, Digital Derby! I had one of those as a kid! Really cool to see the mechanics behind how it worked!
Thanks for the memories, this and Tomy's Big loader construction set were among my favorites.
This content is absolutely fantastic. The anthropologic joy I get from Adam exploring objects and their place in humanity is immense. I hope more of this type of stuff comes out!!
The font on the Digital Derby box is soooo period as well. From the movies to the toys etc - it is soooo spot on.
I still have mine! Played it last year but now I gotta get it out again!!!
not only did I emited a vocal gasp when I saw the thumbnail, I swear I had a tactile feel in my fingers; this is how much a memory I have of this toy! This toy provided a sensory experience! A feel, a sound and even a smell! The gears and grease musta heated up when it was used and there was a specific smell (when they were new I guess). Thanks for this great video. Cheers, MC
I just took apart a "digital volleyball" game last weekend, having never seen something like this before! Good timing :)
Loved this!
Super flashback time! I spent many hours playing that game on road trips.
It's fascinating how fast technology was advancing at this time. The arcade version of Pong came out in 1972, and in 1975 the home version came out. In 1982, Just 4 years after this game was released, The Commodore 64 came out. And in 1983 the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released.
Kind of missed the Atari 2600 in that list. Don't know if it was the first of its kind, but it was the biggest.
You left out Intellevision from 1981. They had much better graphics than the Atari system from the previous year.
I had one in canada, forgot how loud the damn thing was. I guess that why the batteries kept getting 'misplaced' by my parents.
Yes but...they were all incredibly expensive to buy. Just like a PS5 today!
What's crazy to me is that in 40 years we went from the Commodore 64 to 13900K and RTX 4090 PCs. The pace of computer technology is crazy.
I had completely forgotten about Digital Derby, but as soon as I saw it, I remembered that I had one as a child. Great blast from the past.
Great video! Just picked this up on ebay a few months ago, as well as a Hit and Missile to round out my childhood handheld collection (Mattel Electronics Football was nowhere near as cool as these). Thanks for bringing in this new tech to look at old stuff!
I have to agree, the football and baseball games sucked compared to anything tomy put out
I had one of these too! I took it apart too! Never thought I'd see someone do a video on this thing. Fantastic!
Tks for the childhood flashback. I also owned a Digital Derby and loved it. I think it lingered around well into my teens but it still worked. Wish I knew where it was now. Great episode.
Wow! Memories! I loved this game as a kid. I couldn’t wait to go to my cousins house to play this game! When they finally stopped playing it they gave it to me and I was hooked!
I too spent countless hours playing the Digital Derby game growing up!! Thanks for the trip back in time!
I had that racing game a long time ago!
Good old days...
You really are phenomenally mechanically gifted. The number of times I took apart a toy or machine, sometimes things would fly out. Regardless, rarely could I get them back together. I had anxiety watching you pull it apart - knowing what horrors I have unintentionally visited upon such lovely creations.
I inherited the same car game from an older brother. He also had a mechanical baseball game (not like the digital ones) that I never saw work -- the players you physically moved around and put in some holes were long missing before I ever remember seeing it. These scans are pretty cool, and your enthusiasm for these mechanical marvels is fun to watch. Thanks.
Tomy was the BEST when I was growing up! My mom managed the children's department of an "old fashioned" department store (the kind with different department on each floor of the building...before there were Wal-Marts and Targets everywhere), so I got to play with all the coolest toys of the late 70s/early 80's. I still have many of my Tomy pocket games, and one of my favs is the Speedway game (with magnets making the cars go around the track). Every one of those games still works totally fine after all these years. Pure joy!
What a dream job for a parent to have!
I got this as a Christmas present and have exactly the same experience as Adam.
One of my favorite toys as a kid. I still have it and it still works.
Amazing on both counts!
@@tested I should also mention, it is possible to lap the "odometer". I did it a couple times as a kid.
I loved this game growing up, along with Digital Daredevil.
Dirt bike was sooo cool👍
This driving game was my first electronic toy , what a treat to finally see it's insides, thank you!
I have a huge collection of the 70's80's electronic games 😊
I have one of these and a kid and LOVED IT!! I 1000% took it apart to see how it worked.
OH MAN! I had one of those as a kid, and had completely forgotten about it! I loved that as a kid.
Thank you for the revisited childhood enjoyment. I remember taking apart this same toy at about the same age. Great memories.
Hey Adam. I had a Digital Derby too. I also had its predecessor, “Blip” which was a mechanical pong game, where the “ball” was an LED swinging back and forth on a mechanical arm between 2 players.
I wanted that as a kid too 😍
holy shit.... I am 5 again, back in 79 and the 80s I played it soooooooooo much. it was the first Xmas gift I can still remember . 😢
There was a whole series of games from Tomy called Pocketeers which were also called Pocketmates in Japan. They were pocket sized versions of these types of game and were really fascinating and very inventive in their many variations.
The nerdiness level of seeing this on the x-ray scan and scrolling through the layers is immensely satisfying.
Man! I remember finding my dad's game like this at my grandma's house and playing with it even though I had an SNES. I remember the light vibration and God awful noise, but I was mesmerized by it because as a milinial I had never seen anything like it. I knew it was something special and seeing this video brought back so much nostalgia for me. In a very different way than someone growing up with one, but childhood nostalgia none the less. 😂
I had a toy just like that second one as a kid, I'd completely forgotten about it until just that sound alone brought it all back.
1979 Christmas,i gotten one , had so much fun playing with it, thanks for the memories 😊
I loved that game as a kid. I can feel your enthusiasm.
I had that. It's amazing the toys you loved...then forgot about as a child. I needed this today Adam.
My father had one of these he showed me when I was a kid. Was really neat.
Really cool!! I grew up in the same era and instantly recognized his references to the water-filled hoop games, as well as all the electromechanical games of the time that you'd run across in Radio Shack, especially around Christmas.
This was one of my favourite toys as a kid. Fantastic video!
This was really cool. It's crazy that something seems so simple is SO complex.
I got one of these in the late 70's for Christmas as a kid also! I loved it! I still have mine and it still works! :)
One of many of these things that I’m slowly collecting, I loved this one.
oh man, I had this game and loved it. I forgot about it until now.
Thank you. My grandma had this and I played it as a kid in the 80s
Wow, the 35mm film and the 8mm lane divider film brought back so many memories of working in a film lab back in the 80's. Good old Kodak Safety film!! 8mm was actually 35mm slit into 4-8mm rolls, that slitter was the bane of my existence for almost a year. Every minute adjustment could bring instant disaster and trigger a "re-print" which would send the Supervisor into a Verbal rant.... Really cool video Adam!!!
OMG!! I had this game as a kid!! I can still hear it in my head, that mechanical roar sound and crash.
Awesome! I had this as a child. Took it apart immediately.
my goodness, I had this game as a kid - i loved it, it was my favorite! thank you!
TOMY engineers were next level ! I am lucky enough to still have my Atomic Pinball from TOMY , a D batteries devouring , mechanical noise machine from that era...The solutions they found to somehow recreate the "digital" feel with only gears and a motor were no less than remarkable . Also the game BLIP (a sort of Pong clone) inner workings had me puzzled to this day.
I hate to think how many hours I spent playing Atomic Pinball as a little kid ... that and screwball-scramble
@@njones420YES! You made me remember I still have my "Run yourself ragged" in a box , which is actually the same game as screwball-scramble !! Great memmories !
@@theforso So last year (2023) they released "Screwball Scramble Level 2" ... which connects to the side of the original game to continue it :)
...just had to wait 43 years
Fascinating little machines, thanks for sharing.
I had one of those in 1979 as a kid. Wore it out. Great game.
Great content! Thanks. Would love to see more dissections like this
Had this as a kid. Simple yet fun.
The amount of engineering involved in those is very impressive and like you both said, to be able to have a reasonable price point at the same time!
I got this derby game at my grandparents in the 2000's I was about 10yo and never got to play very far.
But this toy had me intrigued, with those mechanical sounds. A very hypnotizing experience.
I got digital derby for Xmas at age 11 and played the heck out of it. Great trip down memory lane.
So glad you took it apart.
Loooooved DD when I got it for Christmas as a kid. Took it apart and managed to get it back together and functional too. A rarity for the dissected toys of my youth!
Had this in the 80s and loved it!!! Thanks for the flashbacks.💜
I got a Digital Derby for Christmas back in 1981 when I 7. It was one of my favorite childhood toys! I wish I still had the thing, but I wore it out playing it all the time.
I spent a ton of time with this exact toy. I loved it. This and Merlin also were played often.
Got it for Christmas back when it was new. Randy Rain has the best complete video out there. A highly recommended watch.
I loved those too. And this is great. The take versions were just as cool.
What a piece of engineering, both of them!
Still have this. My cousins brought this from the states 1979 brought this to west germany in 1982 and nobody had seen something like this. Had other electromechanical games but this was the best! It still works
I had a wind up (no battery) motorbike racing game in the early 80’s my Mum bought me when we were in Spain. Loved it!
one of my first hand held. brilliant.
Holy crap seeing that you brought me right back to my youth! Very cool
Thank you stirring up the memory of this. I too opened mine up after if broke 40+ years ago. It blew my kid mind.
OMG I bought Digital Derby from a local toy shop when I was a kid & I just found the TOMY Copter Combat the other day at the local swap & it works 😄.
Omg, I remember that game!!😮
Right???!!!
I got a laser cutter recently and have been working on more and more complex mechanisms. I hope to build a handheld game of some sort out of wood eventually.
EDIT: I have always been fascinated by mechanical things, so being able to now design and build my own devices is like a dream come true.
I remember having this around when I was a child... Simpler times.
I have fond memories of playing Digital Derby as a kid. It was my favorite game! Sitting in the backseat of my parents 1979 Ford LTD heading to my Grandparents house in Mississippi for vacation and holidays. Also had the Mattel Classic Baseball game. Needless to say we had to carry a lot of extra C and AA batteries. I still have my Digital Derby and Baseball game to this day.
I had one! Loved it!
digital derby !!! total childhood flashback, i spent a very long time playing this when i was little. as far as i knew it wasnt sold in the uk and my dad brought me one from overseas so none of my friends had seen it. i wish i knew what happened to it. it was my favourite toy at the time/
Happy New Year Adam. Hope it's a good one for you and the rest of the Tested family.
Crazy memories! My younger brother had that, it was awesome!
Vintage toys always amazes me. They put so much love and thought into those toys. Everything is digital and cold nowadays.
I had Digital Derby back in the day! Thanks!!
Awesome. I forgot about that one. Was so good. There needs to be more of these mechanical games invented! Surely now ai could assist with design engineering.
I rlly want to make my own one of these, but as they mentioned, the design process and creating the mechanisms themselves is just crazy!!
You can start with a very rudimentary simple design as a starting point. I think you should try. c:
Oh my goodness this game just woke up the 9 year old little awkward nerdy boy in me that really I will always be. I can't even comprehend just how much I loved this game and literally played for hours and hours and what my optometrist blamed was causing my bad eye sight as a kid. Oh how I loved this game. Thank you for sharing, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy and remember to SMILE 😊 God Bless 🙏