Handheld Video Games from the '70s Made No Sense [Past Perfect]

By Adrian Covert Oct 11, 2011 9:00 PM 21,741 101

I inherited one of these 70s handheld games from a box of junk when I was five. It was a Harlem Globetrotters-branded basketball game. It was downright incomprehensible. This Pulsonic baseball game looks no different.

As a kid, I was immediately drawn to that damned Globetrotters game because it had buttons and made noise and was shaped like a basketball. I was intrigued by it, blinded to the fact that it was just a strange sucession of blinking red dots with a static plastic overlay on top of it. I never really figured out how to play it. I don't think I ever picked it up for longer than five minutes. I doubt I could figure out how to use it now. I just knew that that sometimes I would push the right button and it would make a different noise than usual. Everything about this Pulsonic baseball game, from the size, to the look, to the screen, is causing some serious flashbacks. I'm just thankful I also had NES to run back to. [Etsy]

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Indie Strategy Bundle of Games Is Your Therapeutic Gaming Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

I just came back from California. Sunny Cali-for-ni-ay where the absence of weather means it's always great weather. I ate In N Out a bazillion times. I drove in traffic. I listened to Dr. Dre. I watched Clayton Kershaw pitch. I didn't surf, but I could have! I didn't smoke out, but I should have! I didn't sing the theme song of the OC but I'm humming it now. In New York. In my dark and cluttered desk. In the dreary weather. In depression. I'm depressed. And as a practicing scientologist that can't take medicine, I stay depressed. So I wrap my brain around strategy games to remove myself from this world. I'm happy. It's the next best thing to California. Try my therapy with the Indie Strategy Bundle: Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Defense Grid: The Awakening, Revenge of the Titans, Sanctum, and Sol Survivor for 10 bucks. -CC

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You Can Watch NFL Games for Free If You're a Verizon 4G LTE Customer [Android Apps]

Sweetening up the deal for their 4G customers, Verizon will let LTE users have free access to NFL Mobile, the app that lets you stream every Monday Night, Sunday Night, Thursday Night games and let you watch the Redzone channel.

That's usually 10 bucks a month. [Verizon via Android Community]

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