Company: Entex
Model No.: 8001
Year: 1979
Power: 3 AA Batteries or AC Adapter
The Entex Electronic Baseball game started it all for me. As a young baseball fan, I played Little League, collected baseball cards, engaged in an epic backyard Wiffle Ball league (where we actually kept stats) and hustled home after school to catch my favorite Cubs players like Bill Buckner and Dave Kingman on WGN.
In the Chicago winter, however, there was no baseball. At least not until Santa Claus deposited this beauty under the tree. Seriously, how sexy is this game? It's a stadium that can be held in your hand! No TV set is needed to play!
Either playing alone or with my brother or friend or cousin, this game and its emerald green playing field brought baseball to the dark days of winter. This game even had a separate controller that allowed the pitcher to choose from 5 pitches, including a knuckler. It was played in the dark, well after I should have been sleeping. It was played on car rides, with incessant bleeps and bloops driving my parents to the point of threatening to throw it out the window.
It also caused an argument or two about who was winning because, for all of its astonishing technology, it did not keep track of total scores, only the number of runs in a given half-inning. But boy it feel awesome to hit a home run and make the game lights go crazy.
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| Box front full |
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| Front of box - notice the generic batter about to lunge at a pitch way too far outside. |
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| Back of box - great view of the Remote Control Pitching Module |
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| Game front |
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| Instructions booklet |
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| Score sheet - at first we filled out dream lineups but eventually just kept score, while these sheets lasted |
What would this game be worth to a collector?
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