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Reminds me of a toy I had back in the 70's where you attempted to drop bombs into cut-outs in a rotating horizontal disk by looking through an eyepiece with an
by EncomLab 2y ago
Reminds me of a toy I had back in the 70's where you attempted to drop bombs into cut-outs in a rotating horizontal disk by looking through an eyepiece with an attached 90deg mirror. The only controls were a lever that moved the mirror side to side and a trigger to release a bomb. It used a wind up spring motor and was entirely mechanical - I played it for hours.
- fentonc 2y agoThat's awesome sounding - I love how creative people got with mechanical designs before everything went digital.
- bloopernova 2y agowow, within 5 minutes of my pretty much identical recollection! (EDIT: that sounds almost accusatory, it's not meant to be) Do you remember what the game was called? EDIT: it was called "Chutes Away!"
- UncleSlacky 2y agoLoved that game!
- aebtebeten 2y agoChutes Away Rescue Target Game reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2128/ https://xkcd.com/2128/ Holy dual-use technology, Batman!
- EncomLab 2y agoYes that is exactly it!
- bloopernova 2y agoI like how it's supposed to be about rescuing people, but we both remembered it as dropping bombs!