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Old 05-05-2017, 03:28 PM
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Then my mind goes to the excellent soundtrack on the 1995 PC game by Westwood. Ah yes, those dark times before widespread adoption of the Internet when you had to play games on CD-ROM.
Good soundtrack, fun background images, fun little animations on that game.

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The Vintage Computing Blog covers '80s electronic toys.

I had quite a few of these things (or at least similar models based on the same concepts), how about you guys?
That first Robie looks familiar, though we never had one. My brother did get a black-and-yellow piggy bank robot for Christmas though. And I had a couple of Tiger handhelds (baseball and a frustrating football) and an Empire Strikes Back that was probably Tiger too.
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