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How a handheld football game by Mattel influenced one of the biggest hit songs of 1979.
February 12, 2019
| Public Admirer of Emmylou Harris
Posted on 02/12/2019 5:26:02 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
lol...I played that game ALL the time...never picked it up in the Logical Song but as soon as I heard it yup!
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02/12/2019 5:31:03 PM PST
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DouglasKC
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:32:14 PM PST
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Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: SamAdams76
I had this. Played it a lot.
I always thought he sang,”dig it, dig it”.
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:32:35 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: SamAdams76
I probably spent three hundred hours on that device.
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02/12/2019 5:34:59 PM PST
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thoughtomator
(Nobody is coming to save the day)
To: SamAdams76
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02/12/2019 5:36:40 PM PST
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lizma2
To: SamAdams76
You SHOULD start a blog, because you are very enjoyable to read. And make sure to only provide excerpts so HumbleGunner will yell at you.
P.S. As a Gen-X'er myself I had that game and loved it
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02/12/2019 5:37:50 PM PST
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montag813
To: SamAdams76
I played the game..AND..played the album. Or maybe it was a cassette. 8 track?
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02/12/2019 5:38:34 PM PST
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unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: lizma2
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:40:56 PM PST
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CtBigPat
(Qanon - Please be real...)
To: SamAdams76
Didn’t the Clash include the audio from one of those games in Rock the Casbah?
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:41:05 PM PST
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Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: SamAdams76
Could play it at night, under the covers.
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:41:48 PM PST
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Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: Libloather
“Could play it at night, under the covers.”
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And I’ll bet you thought that your parents didn’t know you were doing it. :-)
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:44:04 PM PST
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Mears
To: SamAdams76
The first version came out in 1977.
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02/12/2019 5:44:11 PM PST
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Revel
To: SamAdams76
That was a fun read! Good job!!
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posted on
02/12/2019 5:44:29 PM PST
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McGavin999
(Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
To: SamAdams76
A hand held football game in the late 70's influenced me meeting my future wife. She walked by my dorm room and saw me playing the game, she stopped in, we both became obsessed with it, and the rest is history.
Not sure if it was a Mattel game though. And the influence on the Super Tramp song seems limited.
To: Mears
Who knows what his parents though he was doing !!
To: George from New England
To: SamAdams76
Remember that game! Remember that song!
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02/12/2019 5:46:16 PM PST
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Drew68
To: George from New England
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02/12/2019 5:46:42 PM PST
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Mears
To: SamAdams76
The lyrics in the song reference the word “digital” and that is when the sound is played.
I’m a big fan of the “Breakfast in America” Love the song “Child of Vision”
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