Coleco baseball, or other crazy stuff of yours at your parents' house

Tony Masiello, Andy Anderson, John Morrison and the Golden Griffins never lost a game when I was a kid playing on this game.

 

I cleaned out my parent's house last year and found every note that I took during all of my classes in middle school and high school.

I've got one better than that - when my mom and her brother were cleaning out their parents house in 1997, they found ceiling tiles in the basement that my grandfather had been saving from the house they tore down in 1952. When they told him they tossed them, he actually got MAD, even though he lived in a nursing home at the time.

 

I have two of those stashed in my mom's attic. Both that style and the later, sleeker model. And roughly 50 games to go with it. I wonder if you can even hook that thing up to modern TVs, though. Seems like everything's got input jacks now instead of the old screw-in connections.
Last time I was back there a few years ago, I quickly remembered nostalgia is all hype. I hooked the thing up to an old TV. It sucked. The graphics were terrible, the controls were rough. Even Pitfall and River Raid were boring as hell. I was crushed.

 

If that's the game with the ping-pong ball and the flippers, that's exactly what I had. Probably still have it in my mom's basement, along with this bad boy:

 

See the kid in the black-and-white picture on the cover of the box.

I think I know him ;D

 

This was the early 60s version that I had:

 

Oh, and I've got this in my closet right now. My dad wrote all over the board and cards when he was a kid, and I played my own seasons with it when I was a kid:

 

I have one of those somewhere in a closet at Mom's house.

One of these, too:

 

ST was status, which flashed the down and yards to go type info.

SC was the score.

 

I'm on the verge of consonants. I bought Strat about 10-11 years in a row and never saved the darned cards.

And I laugh at that version of Bas-ket with the Jeff Ruland lookalikes on the box. I guess toy basketball wasn't integrated yet.

 

Aha! Thanks, Hank! Wish I still had that one, IIRC it was a lot less predictable than the basketball (ie, a lot more fun).

 

I have an Odysey system somewhere. I need to go look for it.