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B_Buster

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Electric Football
« on: December 31, 2009, 12:23:28 AM »
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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2009, 08:22:09 AM »
"(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.



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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2009, 10:00:25 AM »
I'm old enough to have seen an operational one, but I didn't understand it at the time.
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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2009, 12:41:27 PM »
(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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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2009, 03:13:19 PM »
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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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2009, 04:39:00 PM »
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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Unless you were under 5 years old, then perhaps that adjective you used would be applicable.
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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2010, 12:02:30 AM »
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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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2010, 12:17:17 AM »
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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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2010, 12:37:06 AM »
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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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2010, 11:54:17 AM »
2009 – A Good MF Year!


That's one spectacular headline.
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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2010, 08:53:53 PM »
2009 – A Good MF Year!


That's one spectacular headline.

Another spectacular headline:
 Shooting Miniature Football Players
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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2010, 09:17:12 PM »
(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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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2010, 10:04:17 AM »
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.

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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2010, 10:10:45 PM »
You don't get the full effect without the deafening awful buzz that accompanies the melee.

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Re: Electric Football
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2010, 02:16:09 PM »
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.
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