I remember when I was a kid getting a football game. It was electric, but it was digital. It was a sheet of metal on short plastic stands that held it off of the ground and it plugged in. And it had a little mechanism underneath it to vibrate the metal really fast.
The players that came with it were plastic and they were on little green bases that had four tiny, almost grass-like feet sticking out just below the bottom of the base. And when you put them on the field or the sheet of metal and you turned it on, the vibration would make them move along on the field.
Sometimes in a good direction, sometimes in a not so good direction. As long as we kept the game on the floor or on a table, it was good. I'd set up the men. I'd turn it on. I'd watch as everybody scattered in different directions.
It was kind of silly looking back on it. It was nothing like Madden football on video games nowadays. It wasn't even anything like the Coleco handheld football game where you had a little digital red dot.
You had to press buttons to make it go up and down and then sideways to run down the field. But it was fun. Sometimes I'd put a dinosaur on the field and see if it would run. It would not. It was too heavy.
I could put army men on there and the army men would jump around and move, but they tended to be too heavy also.
I don't think this game contributed to my not being into sports. But I enjoyed playing it for a little while, and then I didn't play with it anymore.
Fun memory.
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