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The Best Show on WFMU => Mike And His Ilk. => Topic started by: B_Buster on December 31, 2009, 12:23:28 AM
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In case you thought fonpr and I were making it up:
http://www.miggle.com/products/tudor/
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"(A)t Georgia Tech, he would sometimes show his industrial design classes slides of Electric Football - - and get standing ovations. He was truly one of the most important figures in Electric Football history."
I'm pretty certain we had the 1967 version. I wonder if it was any better than the older models.
Hey, why's the lineman running for the sidelines?
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I'm old enough to have seen an operational one, but I didn't understand it at the time.
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(Homer calls a play using an electronic football game for some guidance.)
Homer: Hold on I'm working it out... Okay, half of you vibrate that way, two of you fall down. Nelson, you just spin around in a circle.
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I haven't listened to the show yet, but we had this game when I was a kid. It was, in a word, awesome.
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I haven't listened to the show yet, but we had this game when I was a kid. It was, in a word, awesome.
Sucker!
Unless you were under 5 years old, then perhaps that adjective you used would be applicable.
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Loved this ad, I missed it the first time around because I am only middle-old. Glad to hear they made the college version, though I can't imagine it was much more than a cash grab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sD1hmqBFs
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Loved this ad, I missed it the first time around because I am only middle-old. Glad to hear they made the college version, though I can't imagine it was much more than a cash grab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sD1hmqBFs
Watch out for OJ, Harvey!
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Digging deeper on this, I found a site I can't not share. The only worrisome part is the section called "You're Not Alone", which may be a cry for help.
http://miniaturefootball.org/
So, I'm home on New Years Eve researching modern day electric football leagues. Why wait for 2012 when we could end it all right here?
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2009 – A Good MF Year!
That's one spectacular headline.
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2009 – A Good MF Year!
That's one spectacular headline.
Another spectacular headline:
Shooting Miniature Football Players
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(Homer calls a play using an electronic football game for some guidance.)
Homer: Hold on I'm working it out... Okay, half of you vibrate that way, two of you fall down. Nelson, you just spin around in a circle.
This may be my only experience with electric football.
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I'm too young to have caught the electric football train the first time around, but I did have something that was perhaps the most insane iteration yet: a computer-game version of electric football. This was in the days when the original "Oregon Trail" was the height of gaming technology. The game was a pretty faithful adaptation of what I'm guessing real-life electric football (RLEF) was like. Players were 22 big white dots that vibrated randomly around a big rectangle that represented the field. Every once in a while, the one that had the "ball" would cross into an end zone. Pretty much all you did in the "game" was watch.
Are you ready for a surprise? It sucked.
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You don't get the full effect without the deafening awful buzz that accompanies the melee.
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You don't get the full effect without the deafening awful buzz that accompanies the melee.
Or the risk of electric shock, I'm guessing.