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    Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
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    Image of debbyherbenick debbyherbenick
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    I completely forgot about our Merlin until now... one of the toys we'd fight over as kids. Love this.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    I've got one of these nearly mint. This is almost as good as Simon Says or Football.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    These were so cool, brings back memories! Hmm...off to eBay I go....$15 bucks...nice!
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    I ALWAYS wanted one of these, but alas, they didn't sell them in Mexico. I had to rely on rich friends who traveled to the US and got one.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    Oooooooohhhhhhh I loved this game.....
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    Image of TheWerewolf - Sotto voce TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    OMG OMG... I HAD ONE OF THESE!!!!

    Ok. NOW I'm depressed...
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    Image of Baldyman1966 Baldyman1966
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    I had one of thes up till a little over a year ago. It was up in the loft of my Mums house (along with a lot of my childhood stuff). She was moving, I had no space for all the accumulated crap, so in the skip it went.

    Who can remember the 6 (according to the manual) games on it.

    1. A simon like game, following the music pattern.
    2. Noughts and crosses (or steady and blinking lights as it was)
    3. a tune programmer, you could make simple tunes much the same way as you can with touch tone phones.

    thats all I can remember at the moment.
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    Image of Jakooboo the Whedonite Jakooboo the Whedonite
    07/16/09

    @Baldyman1966 is Holding out for a Hero: Blackjack and Magic Square.
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    Image of mind in rewind mind in rewind
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    I really wanted a Merlin when I was a kid. A friend had one and I was so jealous.
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    Image of JustinSane07 JustinSane07
    07/16/09

    In reply to Merlin: Mr. Game & Watch's Dad and Game Boy's Grampa
    One thing that's never brought up in these 1979 Giz posts is the workmanship of these old items. How do they stand up to today's items? Are they better built? Worse? If I dropped a Merlin, would it get all fubared like a similar device (PSP, DS) would today?
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