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    Verbatim InSight Portable HD Has Always On Display, Can Serve Cheese

    Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters

    Director's Chair Folds Into a Messenger Bag, The World Rejoices

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    Image of tucker tucker
    08/17/09

    In reply to Verbatim InSight Portable HD Has Always On Display, Can Serve Cheese
    mmmm... wensleydale.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    07/16/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    I wasted a lot of time with one of those...
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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    They also featured it on Seinfeld when Jerry started drugging the woman with the toy collection so he could play with the Scuba GI Joe, George could play with this game, and Elaine could play with the Easy Bake Oven and get the Gum Balls for the "Sideler".



    Yeah I watched TV in the 90's. I was product of the late 80's and 90's but I remember the game from friends who still played with one until he was able to get a Game Boy.
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    Image of ZuluWave ZuluWave
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    I remembering finding this game in my Uncle's attic a few years back. I took it out of the box and appreciated its awesomeness.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    I also had one of these beauties..
    click the pic for more info
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/15/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Oh yes. Played it nonstop. Best of them all. Loved the little switch control. *click* *click*
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    I had Coleco's version, which as i recall was much more popular than Mattel's. It seemed like everyone had one.



    Touchdown! 'Dah-dee-dee-dee-dee' I can still hear that tune..
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    Now that I think about it, the one I played most was football II



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    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    07/16/09

    @dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: oh wow, I had every one of these at one point. And i was born in '86! i never bought one. i usually found them in my parents friends' basements, eventually someone just gave them to me cause i loved playing them so much.
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters

    Such a simple game, but it was so fun. And I didn't even like football that much, but I loved playing it. They also had baseball, but the best one was the basketball one.

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    Image of tucker tucker
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    Timewaster? Hardly. This game was pure fun, and still is thirty years later.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/15/09

    In reply to Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
    It's not quite the same, but there's an App for that.



    And it's not half-bad.
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    Image of peetah peetah
    07/15/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:



    first app that I bought, worth all 99 cents!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/06/09

    In reply to Director's Chair Folds Into a Messenger Bag, The World Rejoices
    Uh, where do I put the stuff that was inside the bag when I transform it? Unless it's the same thing that happens to people in Transformers when they transform.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    04/06/09

    @WindySaturday_GitEmSteveDave: Excellent reference!


    I think that the bag is a separate entity, however. But I doubt that there's enough room in it for both chair and, shall we say, a laptop. Hence this is no more useful than previous folding chairs, though a bit more attractive.


    People on the subway will still think you're weird if you deploy it, however.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/24/09

    In reply to Near-Final Pandora Linux Gaming Handheld Shown Actually Playing Something
    Still using a 3D modeled case though.


    Not that it's a bad thing, it just shows that they're still probably working out the internals as opposed to the exterior button layouts and stuff.


    Interesting to see the process via these occasional updates.

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    Image of Jordan Nagel Jordan Nagel
    03/24/09

    In reply to Near-Final Pandora Linux Gaming Handheld Shown Actually Playing Something
    Cool.


    By far beats my DS.


    Also, FIRST.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/24/09

    @Jordan Nagel: Good luck with that whole puberty thing, Jordan.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    12/09/08

    In reply to Novatel's Portable MiFi Does 3G Wi-Fi in a Beautiful Package
    Seems like a FAIL to me.


    You'll need some sort of 3G wireless plan to utilize it, and if you do, then you probably have a 3G device that's already capable of web browsing, email and numerous other interwebs fun.


    So, that begs the question...


    WTF? Why bother with this $200 purchase?

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    Image of Glare Glare
    12/06/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    How do I do the emulators thing?


    I mean do I just download them onto the thumb drive? Then what? Let's say I have a ROM.. how do I play it?


    Oh I'm so confoozed!

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/07/08

    @Glare: The emulator is the 'Shell Program'; Install it on the pendrive, add a folder with your ROMS in it, start emulator program, point it to the ROM folder.
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