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<h2>Welcome to another year with Electronic Plastic. Extended browsing capacities are safe: now with pics & details to more than 600 handheld and tabletop games from the 70s and 80s.</h2>
<p>Portable games with a built-in display, and buttons or a joystick. Games that were sold before Nintendo developed the Gameboy. All very different in sizes and shapes, and all with a custom computer chip and display and, designed for each game only. Packed and sold in colorful boxes these games were very popular 25 years ago. Many of the designs show that the mobile electronics of today, were invented back then.
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The technology was very limited in the beginning, but many companies tried to enhance gameplay with different ideas. The first games used simple LEDs, where red dots represented the players in a football team or the aliens invading earth. Later games had more detailed and colored displays with VFD technology. After that most games had LCD displays, allowing the games to be smaller and use less power. Together with double and triple screens, solar technology, detachable joysticks, cartridges, 3-D effect, stereo sound, built-in radios, projectors and more, kids had a lot to try out those days.
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Many different toy companies were in the market for handheld games. Everyone tried to get their piece of what <a href="set.php?&brand=mattel&type1=lcd&type2=vfd&type3=led">Mattel</a>, <a href="set.php?&brand=coleco&type1=lcd&type2=vfd&type3=led">Coleco</a>, <a href="set.php?&brand=bandai&type1=lcd&type2=vfd&type3=led">Bandai</a>, <a href="set.php?&brand=tomy&type1=lcd&type2=vfd&type3=led">Tomy</a> and <a href="set.php?&brand=nintendo&type1=lcd&type2=vfd&type3=led">Nintendo</a> had started. Mattel for example sold more than 1 million copies of Electronic Baseball in 1978. Later Nintendo sold over 30 million copies of their Game & Watch games.
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