The Goldbergs : Vibrating electric football game

Vibrating electric football game

Have they shown Barry and his dad competing with this awesome 80s contraption?

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Haven't seen it yet...but that's actually a game from the late 1940s; became more popular after the NFL licensed their name starting in the 60s, then took a big hit in the 80s from handheld games, then video games.

So I could see a scene with Barry throwing it out, screaming about how outdated his old man's game is.

(Unless you are talking the Mattel/Coleco games, then I misunderstood.)

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I remember that game. That was a good one. I also remember the Mattel handheld football game which was white in color. That was awesome. My brother and I used to play that for hrs. Now that was a distinctive 80s game. But of course it won't make the show because Adam forgets about half of the decade. I've said this before but Adam was a late 80s and early 90s kid. His brothers were more of an 80s kids then him.

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But of course it won't make the show because ...


Also because it's sports?

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Aha. Another reason. If Barry or Eric made the show, it would be in there.

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Since you played it a lot, let me ask....

How exactly did that game work? I didn't have it as a kid (I grew up in the 70s & 80s), but I was always very leery of it because it seemed like my friends would spend a bunch of time setting up all the little players and then they would turn the thing on and the pieces would just go all over the place at random. As far as I could tell, it was just an electric magnet. So, despite all the effort to set up an actual football "play," no such thing ever happened! Even as a kid, it seemed pointless to me, no offense. LOL

Is my assessment of this game correct? Am I missing something?

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If you put it on the lowest setting, it worked fairly well. If you turned it up too much the players jumped around and fell over.

Later on, the players had stands where you could turn a dial to control the direction they'd go.

You had to get creative with the passing game. My brother, cousins and I did this: if the foam ball didn't hit a player initially, we'd let it sit on the board for three seconds. The first player to touch the ball caught it. If no one touched it in three seconds, it was incomplete.

I remember our game came with Pittsburgh and Dallas. We did the mail in offer for Washington and Cincinnati.

We passed many snow days away with the game! Haha

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That was still around in the 80s, but I associate it more in my mind with the 70s. Video games were getting more popular in the 80s.

Yeah, they didn't work that well. Especially didn't represent the passing game that well.

Remember when the "real" Barry Goldberg posted here?

Remember about a year back, when the "real" Barry Goldberg signed on here and started posting? He sounded very much like a moron, just like the Barry on TV--yet, the genuine article is a respected physician! Well, THIS "real" Barry suddenly popped on here to support his buddy, the late/not lamented PHYLLOT, as he argued with posters about The Goldbergs.

Never mind that this Barry, who claimed to have a legit Twitter account and even provided social networking information, couldn't string two syllables together. He appeared to back up Phyllot that Adam got all the sporting event information wrong to "get back" at Barry. That's why the info was so inaccurate on the show.

People here, and I seem to recall Speedy being one of them, swore up and down that the "real" Barry was posting here. "There's no way it can't be him, no way," they all said.

When Phyllot was kicked into the IMDB Twilight Zone for good, apparently the "real" Barry Goldberg followed him. Poof! A magical wave of the "delete account" wand, and both Phyllot and "Barry" disappear. Neither has posted in months and months.

Now, you don't think they were one and the same person, do you?

Come on, Speedy, tell us!
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