I remember playing with this. I played it so much I had the whole pattern memorized and after watching the led go back and forth a couple times, I would play with my eyes closed just by listening to the sounds of the gears until the timer stopped. Good times
I love the Tomy electro mechanical games as they are a work of art. The innovation in these things was ahead of its time. Definitely paved the way for the new and improved LCD / VFD not long after. I have most in my collection and 3 of them are still new. Pure Nostalgia. Blip will always be a classic. Thank You.
I had one of these in 1982 when I was 9 years old! I played the heck out of it. Memories flooding back. Now you've got me browsing EBay! Thanks for sharing, Willie!
Playing this and Digital Derby was fun, even among the fully electronic games at that time :) I played this for the first time in ‘78 when the game had been out for a year. I have a copy of Blip… and it still works great. :)
I got this Xmas 1978. It was an awesome game. Tomy also made Digital Derby in 1978 and was a fun game (I got one from eBay in the late 90s). It was a car racing game with gears and a steering wheel.
Note the contrasting styles in the showdown. Our boy uses the thumb-only approach on the buttons while his good lady favours the three-finger (or "tri-digital") technique.
12 guitar notes. I got a blip after fighting for a rain check. Zayre sold thousands of them. I played digital derby more. Digital ment fingers as digits are digits.
I never owned Blip But I definitely played it at friends and cousins houses, and love these mechanical games! I had a missile game that I loved so much. I think I had several of them, because I literally wore them out. Surely those were made by Tomy also. I’m going To see if you’ve made a video on it by any chance. New subscriber! Great stuff.
@@will_it_work Agreed. Impossible to press more than 1 button. There's a mechanism behind the buttons that prevents cheats this way. You [could] remove the anti-cheat mechanism very easily but I doubt anyone actually did that back in the day. I only know because I repaired mine recently.
Yes I rember the buttons get kinda stuck sometimes when u press 2 of them one of them would give think the light up ball was red on mine back in the day and Torbor that rc toy when the star wars stuff was out it was in the star wars holiday special and the free Boba fett Kenner proff of purchases Boba fett was just in a white box w adress on it . Think I had handhelds armor battle and Dr dunk and that football game in the tron movie think there was a blue hockey game with red dots too . The coleco frogger small arcade one ok but had galaxian2 the one with the blue aliens and red ship I think the stars were green or yellow I forget but player two could control the aliens that were smashing into the red space ship it looked more trianglely with a black dot in the middle ship it was different oh did your wife play galaxian2 unfortunately don't have it anymore
@@SVT512 k my bad i 4got yeah did you know my dad and my bro won first place in some cub scout event think it might have been a local science show idk but anyhow my dad hitched galaxian 2 up to my huffy bike that galaxian 2 game it was on demo mode and when you pedal the bike the game would power on he also did some aluminum baking with nails holding up hot dogs idk y we won or maybe some judge made exercise bikes with the green biker but who knows what the judges did .yeah I think you did that Mario bike and pedal or was that another commentator i4get
I wish there was an undiscovered world of vintage hand held collector-worthy games but there's really not. Most of these games are terrible. The only standout game is Tomy Hit & Missile which is an awesome game and worth owning.
I remember playing with this. I played it so much I had the whole pattern memorized and after watching the led go back and forth a couple times, I would play with my eyes closed just by listening to the sounds of the gears until the timer stopped. Good times
That is awesome!
If you're from generation X and over 40 and never had blip or or any of the Tomy mechanical games you were neglected as a child lol
I love the Tomy electro mechanical games as they are a work of art. The innovation in these things was ahead of its time. Definitely paved the way for the new and improved LCD / VFD not long after. I have most in my collection and 3 of them are still new. Pure Nostalgia. Blip will always be a classic. Thank You.
I got one too that Xmas, I remember how excited I was to have it
I'm a huge Tomy fan... Matter of fact, I just refurbished an OnmiBot. The engineers at Tomy were geniuses.
I had one of these in 1982 when I was 9 years old! I played the heck out of it. Memories flooding back. Now you've got me browsing EBay! Thanks for sharing, Willie!
Playing this and Digital Derby was fun, even among the fully electronic games at that time :)
I played this for the first time in ‘78 when the game had been out for a year.
I have a copy of Blip… and it still works great. :)
I got this Xmas 1978. It was an awesome game. Tomy also made Digital Derby in 1978 and was a fun game (I got one from eBay in the late 90s). It was a car racing game with gears and a steering wheel.
I had a Digital Derby as well :), trying to get another one for a video to share my memories of it
Note the contrasting styles in the showdown. Our boy uses the thumb-only approach on the buttons while his good lady favours the three-finger (or "tri-digital") technique.
I got this new for Christmas back in the 70s and it was great . Remember it fondly.
Wow, this was made before I was born, and when I saw videos, yep, before the GameBoys and the Tiger LCDs, handhelds were mechanical.
i had one of these...great fun
Forgot about that game. When we got it we were disappointed as well that it was not ‘digital’. 😅
I mean, you used your digits right?
This line of toys was taken off the market, for some reason I don't recall, NPI
Hey i remember this & our family had it when we were growing up. Never knew what the box looked like & i didn’t know it was made by Tomy
12 guitar notes. I got a blip after fighting for a rain check. Zayre sold thousands of them. I played digital derby more. Digital ment fingers as digits are digits.
Any wife that plays Blib this well is a keeper
Silly Willy, let the wife win! Great video, now I want one!
yep, that tends to happen to people that watch my vids :P
Great video
I never owned Blip But I definitely played it at friends and cousins houses, and love these mechanical games! I had a missile game that I loved so much. I think I had several of them, because I literally wore them out. Surely those were made by Tomy also. I’m going To see if you’ve made a video on it by any chance. New subscriber! Great stuff.
Not done Hit and Missile or Digital Derby yet, still on the hunt for them.
I Had Blip! Loved it but the sound drove my folks nuts in the car. Lol Our 11yo just said she whises she had one. Off to EBay I go. Lol
Digital Derby yesss
you need to set the score to "R" for the first receiver of the serve since every time you press serve it clicks up a number
totally forgot about that :P
NO TV set is needed... hehe :)
You should have set her score to "R" at the start, not "0". That way, when you start the game serving, you don't giver her a free point.
I had it my little bro broke it in 1986 :(
Blip was great until we figured out how to cheat by holding down 2 buttons at once
You can't hold down more than one of the white 1,2,3 buttons at the same time. You can cheat by holding down the red Serve button, however.
@@will_it_work Agreed. Impossible to press more than 1 button. There's a mechanism behind the buttons that prevents cheats this way. You [could] remove the anti-cheat mechanism very easily but I doubt anyone actually did that back in the day. I only know because I repaired mine recently.
Hedge your bets? You mean cheat? 😆😅🤣
Yes I rember the buttons get kinda stuck sometimes when u press 2 of them one of them would give think the light up ball was red on mine back in the day and Torbor that rc toy when the star wars stuff was out it was in the star wars holiday special and the free Boba fett Kenner proff of purchases Boba fett was just in a white box w adress on it . Think I had handhelds armor battle and Dr dunk and that football game in the tron movie think there was a blue hockey game with red dots too . The coleco frogger small arcade one ok but had galaxian2 the one with the blue aliens and red ship I think the stars were green or yellow I forget but player two could control the aliens that were smashing into the red space ship it looked more trianglely with a black dot in the middle ship it was different oh did your wife play galaxian2 unfortunately don't have it anymore
yes, we did do a video on playing Galaxian 2 :)
th-cam.com/video/a9lz21fTpQY/w-d-xo.html
@@SVT512 k my bad i 4got yeah did you know my dad and my bro won first place in some cub scout event think it might have been a local science show idk but anyhow my dad hitched galaxian 2 up to my huffy bike that galaxian 2 game it was on demo mode and when you pedal the bike the game would power on he also did some aluminum baking with nails holding up hot dogs idk y we won or maybe some judge made exercise bikes with the green biker but who knows what the judges did .yeah I think you did that Mario bike and pedal or was that another commentator i4get
I wish there was an undiscovered world of vintage hand held collector-worthy games but there's really not. Most of these games are terrible. The only standout game is Tomy Hit & Missile which is an awesome game and worth owning.
I loved Hit and Missile and Digital Derby :)
lol, you guys suck at this game. lol. I remember playing this with my cousins and we got pretty darn good at it, games would take forever.
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