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	Retrogasm!
	by Chad Concelmo on 04.25.2008 37 comments

When I crawled into work early this morning in a late night Ikaruga/Survivor/Lost induced haze, I stumbled upon a coworker playing this in his office:

OMG! Please tell me you all remember this! I played this little guy religiously all throughout my childhood. Talk about bringing back memories.

For anyone that doesn’t know, Classic Football is a really retro, well, football game. Basically you have to get one dimly lit red light from the left side of the screen to the right using the arrow keys, the whole time avoiding other dimly lit red lights that are moving up and down. No passing. No touchdowns. No tackles. Wait, how is this like football at all?

I borrowed it from my coworker to take the above picture, but I don’t think I want to give it back. Would it be horrible if I returned a stapler to him and tried to pretend it was what he lent me in the first place?

There are 37 comments about this post:

MrSadistic says:
(# 0) on 04/25/2008 17:03

I found one of those at a yard sale when I was 10 or so. Man, those things were awesome.

Tug Your God Out says:
(# 1) on 04/25/2008 17:03

I got mine taken away in fourth grade....and never got it back. :O(

king3vbo says:
(# 2) on 04/25/2008 17:04

JAWESOME

The Bez says:
(# 3) on 04/25/2008 17:04

does that have multiplayer cuz if it does you totally should rock it at the NARP

ArrestedDeveloper says:
(# 4) on 04/25/2008 17:05

Those Football games were the best. The baseball one was cool too. Also, Lost was awesome last night!

Chad Concelmo says:
(# 5) on 04/25/2008 17:12

@ArrestedDeveloper,
Lost was AMAZING! :)

Sharpless says:
(# 6) on 04/25/2008 17:14

OHMYGEEZ, don't even talk to me about Lost. Okay, no, talk to me about it. IT WAS SAUCESOME. SMOKE MONSTER, HAVE MY BABIES.

MaxVest says:
(# 7) on 04/25/2008 17:24

Lost was indeed a winrar. Looks like some rules got changed.

I remember that football game, but I was more of a Tiger handhelds guy myself. God, those sucked so much.

Sadie G says:
(# 8) on 04/25/2008 17:24

lost...so amazing.
wtf he can summon the monster??!!?!

JTHomeslice says:
(# 9) on 04/25/2008 17:26

I think I've see those sold in Wal-Mart. But, if that's an original, that is a very good find.

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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask says:
(# 10) on 04/25/2008 17:26

Lost was good, but Grey's Anatomy was far superior :P

RRDelay says:
(# 11) on 04/25/2008 17:27

I have to honestly say, i prefer the football over the G&W.

Cause it's so badass

Dexter345 says:
(# 12) on 04/25/2008 17:28

That's so retro it's new.

Deftone says:
(# 13) on 04/25/2008 17:31

I still own it, sadly it doesn't work anymore, but the memories of me screaming "TOUCHDOWN" are priceless.

runchild says:
(# 14) on 04/25/2008 17:33

i had one of these! but alas, i sucked really hard at it...maybe because i was too young to understand what the buttons with letters did.

Guagloves says:
(# 15) on 04/25/2008 17:33

AWESOME!

Samit Sarkar says:
(# 16) on 04/25/2008 17:36

Oh yeah, Chad? Well I had one of these as a kid:

Also, Lost rocked.

Zer0 H0ur says:
(# 17) on 04/25/2008 17:37

@ JTHomeslice;
It's the re-release. The original read Mattel Electronics on the top, instead of Classic Football. Now if only someone would re-make Milton Bradley's Microvision system.

Rockvillian says:
(# 18) on 04/25/2008 17:57

@maxvest

:O

I loved that Castlevania handheld. I think the "sword" button makes it into my favorite buttons of all time list.

Senisan82 says:
(# 19) on 04/25/2008 18:00

oh man...i feel like i just got punched in the face by the retro ghost...i got goosepumbs!

Tactix says:
(# 20) on 04/25/2008 18:05

Chad....

YES! I totally had one of those as a kid! *smiles*

Seeing that picture made my day :D

Elitechief27 says:
(# 21) on 04/25/2008 18:21

Sweet. I wish I had one of those when I was younger insted of this parascope type game thing(vauge example is vauge)

blehman says:
(# 22) on 04/25/2008 18:23

o_0 Awesome....

...and Lost was f'n great. Made me remember why I love Ben so much.

The-Excel says:
(# 23) on 04/25/2008 18:55

Was it called Classic Football when it was first released?

Also I remember seeing one of these at Wal-Mart five years ago.

Brilliam says:
(# 24) on 04/25/2008 19:02

OH MAN AWESOME

who is your coworker who was playing that!?! TELL ME YOU KISSED IHM OR HER ON THE LIPS!!

taumpytears says:
(# 25) on 04/25/2008 20:50

I think I have the one before that.

MPHtails says:
(# 26) on 04/25/2008 21:33

I got one of those football ones right over there in my drawer, i still break it out from time to time. Very fun stuff.

Also, one for Sonic 3 and Sonic Spinball.

MissHinasaki says:
(# 27) on 04/25/2008 22:24

Holy shit! I have a couple of those.

Topher Cantler says:
(# 28) on 04/25/2008 22:35

Excuse me, I believe you have my Football game ...

Technophile says:
(# 29) on 04/25/2008 23:04

Damn..seeing that takes me back.

I didn't play those games for very long though, I had the benefit of having a grandfather who was a commercial airplane pilot and would bring me Game&Watches from Japan.

mmm..Game&Watch

Reaprar says:
(# 30) on 04/25/2008 23:11

Why don't you just toss him out of a tree and then you wont have to give him anything? then you'll hav ethe stapler AND the game! It's win/win!

The Bez says:
(# 31) on 04/26/2008 00:55

LOL to the 100th degree at Reaprar

kadosho says:
(# 32) on 04/26/2008 01:07

Who could forget those classic LED games? From Football, to TMNT, you name it. Fun to see them still around.

NihonTiger90 says:
(# 33) on 04/26/2008 01:26

So totally awesome. I need one for my collection.

Chad Concelmo says:
(# 34) on 04/26/2008 18:04

@Reaprar,
That's terrible (translation: that's amazing)! :)

Cataract says:
(# 35) on 04/30/2008 14:19

Ahh, I was never lucky enough to have one of these as a kid, but I ended up "finding" someone elses for a day, then gave it back.

Artemus says:
(# 36) on 04/30/2008 19:42

Damn! Cool... Like that crazy, drunken D-Toid Cabo trip I've read about, a bunch of my friends and I rented a bad-ass house in Lake Tahoe last July. What a week that was...
One thing I'll never forget, in my room, was an old pool table and a beat-down arcade version of that classic electric football dimly-lit, red light game.
And yes, we got drunk and played tha hell outta it... For about a half-hour.

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