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Electronic Quarterback is a handheld electronic game made by Coleco in 1978. It is powered by a 9-volt battery or an AC adaptor, and it differentiated itself from the other similar handheld electronic American football games of the era, notably Mattel Electronics' version, by having two blockers and giving the quarterback the ability to pass.
Coleco Electronic Quarterback (1978). Handheld electronic games are interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games, that are played on portable handheld devices, known as handheld game consoles, whose controls, display and speakers are all part of a single unit.
Mattel pioneered the category of handheld electronic video games when it released Auto Race in 1976. [2] [9] [10] It was the first in a line of sports handhelds including Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, and Hockey, as well as non-sports games. In Battlestar Galactica Space Alert, the gear switch of Auto Race is replaced with a red fire ...
Tiger Electronics has been part of the Hasbro toy company since 1998. [8] [9] Hasbro paid approximately $335 million for the acquisition. [10]In 2000, Tiger was licensed to provide a variety of electronics with the Yahoo! brand name, including digital cameras, webcams, and a "Hits Downloader" that made music from the Internet (mp3s, etc.) accessible through Tiger's assorted "HitClips" players ...
The R-Zone is a portable game console (originally head-worn, later handheld) developed and manufactured by Tiger Electronics.The R-Zone was shown at the American International Toy Fair in February 1995, [1] and was released later that year. [2]
The game is a circular unit that looks like a steering wheel. It has been extended from four buttons to eight touchscreen buttons, which are flattened out on the unit. [8] The game features four game modes, called "Levels" (the main game), "Classic", "Party" and "Extreme". The player has to go through all sixteen levels to beat the game.
A dedicated console differs from a handheld TV game (or a "plug and play game") in that the latter integrates the video game console with the game controller. Most modern dedicated home game systems are popularly referred to as "plug and play" because they are based on modern technology which enables the hardware and software of the entire game ...
Coleco entered the video game market in 1976 during the dedicated-game home console period with their line of Telstar consoles.When that market became oversaturated over the next few years, the company nearly went bankrupt, but found a successful product through handheld electronic games, with products that beat out those of the current market leader, Mattel.