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02-11-2006, 06:11 PM
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Just lurking about....
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Location: Madison, WI
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electric football
 http://www.miggle.com/ Anybody play this when they were a kid or continue to play now? There's a really good article about it on espn page 2. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...e=hruby/060210 "At some point between Tru-Action's heyday and now -- no one knows exactly when, or how -- electric footballers discovered that the figurines could move like real players. Go fast. Go straight. Turn at a 90-degree angle. Cover ground in a sweeping semicircle, like a blitzing Lawrence Taylor coming around the corner. The trick? Manipulating the green plastic bases that sit beneath the figurines. Aficionados call the process "tweaking." Last offseason I figured the nfl network and espn nfl 2k5 would get me thru. This offseason, I no longer own my xbox and my cable provider dropped the nfl network. Said there wasn't enough interest. Seeing as I live in Madison, I blame it on the sorry state the Packers are in right now. Anyway, I'm thinking I might give this a try for my offseason fix this year. |
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02-11-2006, 06:18 PM
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I had all the AFC west teams in electric football. They came packaged together. It was fun! I melted some of the Raiders!
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02-11-2006, 08:28 PM
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My cousin had this............... it sucked. Thank goddness Japan started making video games in the 80's.
I remember kicking field goals. G.A.Y. |
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02-11-2006, 10:00 PM
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lets go partner
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I could never get the stupid SOBs to go straight!!
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02-11-2006, 10:12 PM
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I never melted anything but I'd be damned if I could get them to perform correctly for one single play. Used to end up losing the felt-like footballs right away and had to use little wads of paper instead...it was a nightmare. To me, the best football game to ever come out was Tecmo Super Bowl (circa 1991) for some reason, I enjoyed playing that more than any Sega, Montana, Madden, Xbox or what have you...it never got old to me. |
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02-11-2006, 10:16 PM
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 Techmo rocked! I loved that game. |
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02-11-2006, 10:17 PM
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RIP Darrent Williams
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Madden 06
to young for that old game. |
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02-11-2006, 10:19 PM
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lets go partner
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Man we used to have round robins that lasted all night and into the next day playing techmo there was even fights sometimes lol. |
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02-11-2006, 10:19 PM
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Over Jay Cutler
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Talk about a very cool looking toy that was really CRAP.
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02-11-2006, 10:25 PM
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"Hoodie Jr"
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At the church the Pastor and I had a showdown and I would set up my shots, on the hockey manual table and he called me an old lady! He was a fine man and had a genuine experience with the Ghost, but he got pissed because I was not playing fast....
This was a fine man, but his patience wore down. This was a real live man, and he said to me he was visited by a shiny being, and he said it to me personally and he said it in church. He went on to Des Moines. Last edited by watermock; 02-11-2006 at 10:29 PM.. |
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02-11-2006, 10:28 PM
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02-11-2006, 10:30 PM
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GIVE ME SOME MORE ORANGE
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My brother had that stupid game. I remember the field vibrated like crazy causing the plastic figurines to go every which way. Then you could kick a field goal and the friggin ball would go right out of the "stadium".
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02-11-2006, 10:30 PM
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lets go partner
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That lead to super techmo and then to madden on the play station and also NHL EA sports, 48 hours and a half pound of dope and we were set! all my friend met stupid girls now we don't do it anymore...  Last edited by Bronx33; 02-11-2006 at 10:33 PM.. |
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02-11-2006, 10:36 PM
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 Domesticality breeds staleness and then, things like this don't occur anymore...it's sad.NHL EA Sports...1994 was the last I was involved playing that...it was a cool game, but I had trouble moving the players when I was messed up. Nothing beats that Nitendo Super tecmo bowl though...I have yet to see a game equal the fun it had...the graphics keep getting better, but something always seems to lack. |
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02-11-2006, 10:38 PM
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lets go partner
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We played that one for like 4 years they kept putting out new ones but they just sucked until 98 came out, THEN IS WAS ON! |
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02-11-2006, 10:45 PM
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I always played the Flyers and Nordiques on that game...the Flyers sucked on it, so they were the bigger challenge...the announcers annoyed me though, they always made me play with that crap on
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02-11-2006, 10:47 PM
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"Hoodie Jr"
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I thought you were talking about the actual table games where you twirled around and pushed and turned by hand...
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02-11-2006, 10:51 PM
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I think I still have that electric game with all those teams in the attic....wonder what they'd get me on eBay? |
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02-11-2006, 11:41 PM
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02-11-2006, 11:44 PM
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lets go partner
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That doesn't suprise me, alot of those are really hard to find in full sets since some kids liked to light em on fire. |
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02-12-2006, 12:02 AM
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"Hoodie Jr"
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 no wonder we lost in the 60's...the coaches needed to point them in the right direction...how we couldn't score against an opponent also shows some rather odd coaching tactics...TAKE A RIGHT TURN DAMMIT... Last edited by watermock; 02-12-2006 at 12:05 AM.. |
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02-12-2006, 12:41 AM
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02-12-2006, 01:01 AM
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i have the '72 cowboys squirreled away somewhere. i have no idea who their opponent was. the board got rusted an thrown out. while i was on ebay i saw a hotwheel car i saved from 1968 worth 70$.
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02-12-2006, 11:09 AM
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Not to totally switch the subject, but did anyone play electric baseball?
It was alot funner until it broke. The only thing that was controlled by the electric was the baserunners. They ran around on this track and would keep going til you said stop. The batting required you to pull a knob and release it sending the metal magnet hurling at the metal outfield wall. I'm looking this one up. |
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02-12-2006, 11:12 AM
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No wait, there was a better game i used to play...
Not sports related at all.. Crossbows and Catapults!!! I had a cousin who got real harcore with RPG stuff and would paint those metal figurines and then we'd use em in our C&C games.. That game simply rocked and you could NEVER get sick of it... |
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