Nerd Nostalgia

Farwell Dr Grant

Sony Walkman

2001

80's Fest Pic 📸 of the day! #arcade #videogames #videogamearcade #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas8thannual80sfest

Recent addition to my collection of pre-LCD handheld games, Tomy Tennis from 1982.

I've talked about it before but I have a love of electronic games produced in this narrow window of time after integrated circuit chips got cheap but before there were any good options for displaying graphics besides TV.

This would be late 70s to early 80s, and there was a lot of creativity to make portable games that actually gave you understandable output. LEDs were often used or in this case, vacuum florescent displays (VFDs) that allowed arbitrary shapes to be illuminated with that characteristic blue-green glow.

Apparently this place is tucked into away and in stealth in the "burbs" of Japan.. It's obviously nostalgic for some people but I think they went too nuts with the labels and it looks like a "dive arcade" so to speak.. 😅

Also spotted a shark fin home arcade Space Invaders cab amongst the candy cabs