Electric football inventor dies

Wade
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12 years ago

Norman Sas, inventor of Electric Football, dies at 87

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 8, 2012, 3:04 PM EDT

The generation that grew up on video games may find this hard to believe, but there was once a time when football fans could entertain themselves for hours by playing a low-tech game featuring inch-tall plastic players moving around chaotically on a vibrating metal football field. The game was Electric Football, and it grew so popular that more than 40 million copies of the game have been sold.

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Those were the days. Any of my fellow geezers remember playing electric football? Those were the days, quarter inch felt footballs, and always players willing to do their Roy Riegels/Jim Marshall imitation. Bzzzz Bzzzz.

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wpr
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12 years ago

I loved that game. When it was working correctly.

Porforis
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12 years ago

I never actually played a game of it but my grandma had one of them at her house and I'd sometimes take it out and turn it on.

Cheesey
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12 years ago

I had one....actually, it was my brother's, and i got it when he out grew it.
I actually sent away to a company and got the Green Bay Packers and Oakland Raiders (it was right after super bowl 2) and i played with the game alot. Even though you had NO control over the "players".
It was fun though, watching your running back run right up the back of his blockers, just like Ryan Grant.

I wish i still had it.

Pack93z
Select Member

12 years ago

When I was a kid... I so wanted one of these sets.

One Christmas.. I got one.

Can I say that it was one of the most disappointing experiences of my childhood... a TV tray with a rotary motor and some plastic players.. and a damn little foam football.

"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

12 years ago

Originally Posted by: pack93z

Wait.... wait ... HOLD UP ONE DAMN SECOND HERE!

they had electricity when you were a kid?

\:d/

Cheesey
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12 years ago

Wait.... wait ... HOLD UP ONE DAMN SECOND HERE!

they had electricity when you were a kid?

\:d/

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

They did, but you had to tie a string and key to a kite and fly it out your window.......[grin1]

wpr
Preferred Member

12 years ago

Originally Posted by: pack93z

yep and 70% of the players went round and round in a circle or oblong pattern. the RB if he didn't turn in a circle ran backwards or to the sidelines.

but all in all it was fun because it was the best we had.

Since69
Registered

12 years ago

Had one in the late 60's. Wasn't there a weight or some kind of adjustment you could make to the running back to get him to go in a certain direction? I seem to remember yelling (often) about him not going the way I'd intended...

wpr
Preferred Member

12 years ago

#10

Originally Posted by: Since69

yep different co had different ways to adjust him. Some of them had the little plastic bristles on the bottom of the player. Others had a weight. A few were simply made to head in a specific direction. None of them worked very well. Or at least not to my satisfaction.

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