merlin 00merlin 01Merlin (also known as Merlin The Electronic Wizard, stylized as MERLIN) is a handheld electronic game first made by Parker Brothers in 1978.

The game was invented by former NASA employee Bob Doyle, his wife Holly, and brother-in-law Wendl Thomis.Merlin is notable as one of the earliest and most popular handheld games, selling over 5 million units during its initial run, as well as one of the most long-lived, remaining popular throughout the 1980s. A version of the game was re-released in 2004 by the Milton Bradley Company.

 

 

 

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monkey seemonkey see 00Model: Monkey See 
Battery: 9 volt 

AC adapter:
Year: 1985

Chip: TMS1000 / MP0271

Info:This wonderful educational toy is not related to Texas Instruments. It is just for comparision with the rare MATH MAGIC and its sibling WIZ-A-TRON. With this MONKEY SEE Radio Shack changed from the original "calculator chip" MM5780 to a pre-programmed 4-bit microcontroller from Texas Instruments.


 

mr mus i calmr mus i cal 01Model: Mr MUS-I-CAL
Battery: 9 volt 

AC adapter: no
Year: 1979

Chip: TMS1000/MP3206

Info: 

 

 

 


 

Language Translatorrobot logo 03Model:  Robot Logo        robot logo 02
Battery: 4 x  1,5 C + 2 x 9 volt
                       
AC adapter:
Year: 
1982                                   
Chip: TMS5100 / MP3468 / CM62191

Info: Talking radio-controlled, 6 minutes of speech with more than 40 sentences, led lights and backward movement by pressing the remote control

 

 




SIMON usa (2)SIMON usa The Simon is an electronic game of short-term memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of tones and lights and requires a user to repeat the sequence. If the user succeeds, the series becomes progressively longer and more complex. Once the user fails or the time limit runs out, the game is over. The original version was manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley and later by Hasbro after it took over Milton Bradley. Much of the assembly language code was written by Charles Kapps, who taught computer science at Temple University and also wrote one of the first books on the theory of computer programming. Simon was launched in 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City and was an immediate success, becoming a pop culture symbol of the 1970s and 1980s. 

 

Wikipedia - Simon