New game idea with a 70's twist

[Swampdude]

Seeing the water game theory "resurfacing" and the shifting thread triggered a funny thought. The old timers will know what I'm talking about. Remember before Playstation, Nintendo and Atari and the TV only got 4 stations and had a big dial on it to clunk through the UHF and VHF frequencies we had those board games. Then along came those really cool board games you could plug-in to the wall. You know those vibrating table football games you put all the guys out there for each team and flip that thumb wheel switch on the extension cord and watch in excitement while half your team fell over and the other half collected along the edges depending on the tilt of your floor. But sometimes your running back would get into an end zone! you could also substitute the original pieces with some little green army guys if needed.

Well that was a great time back in the 70's. Since this generation has missed out on this fantastic game, maybe this would be a great 2006 competition aspect. We could instead make all our bots vibrate around on the field and just see where they wind up after 2 minutes. It's certainly a "level playing field" concept. Lets see what those elite teams do with that!

Somebody actually still makes those things

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

Seeing the water game theory "resurfacing" and the shifting thread triggered a funny thought. The old timers will know what I'm talking about. Remember before Playstation, Nintendo and Atari and the TV only got 4 stations and had a big dial on it to clunk through the UHF and VHF frequencies we had those board games. Then along came those really cool board games you could plug-in to the wall. You know those vibrating table football games you put all the guys out there for each team and flip that thumb wheel switch on the extension cord and watch in excitement while half your team fell over and the other half collected along the edges depending on the tilt of your floor. But sometimes your running back would get into an end zone! you could also substitute the original pieces with some little green army guys if needed.

Well that was a great time back in the 70's. Since this generation has missed out on this fantastic game, maybe this would be a great 2006 competition aspect. We could instead make all our bots vibrate around on the field and just see where they wind up after 2 minutes. It's certainly a "level playing field" concept. Lets see what those elite teams do with that!

Somebody actually still makes those things

Just we need robots going here there and everywhere and everybody yelling at them endlessly to do something else.
What fun!


*childhood owner of an electric football set*

Now making an elcetric FIRST game (note I said electric not electronic) NOW THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING!!!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Now making an elcetric FIRST game (note I said electric not electronic) NOW THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING!!!

HHhhhmmmmmmmm.....

[Dave starts thinking evil thoughts about an electrified FIRST field... ]

-dave

[K.Shaw]

haha that would be awsome!

uh oh you have Dave thinkin' of an electrified field .....

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by dlavery

HHhhhmmmmmmmm.....

[Dave starts thinking evil thoughts about an electrified FIRST field... ]

-dave

Shocking.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by dlavery

[Dave starts thinking evil thoughts about an electrified FIRST field... ]

-dave

How about an electrified fence above the field. All the robots would have to have bumper car antennas and use field power.

They'd also have to play carnival music.

[Denman]

dodgems!
then you make some more rules about no contact and its really dodgems.. (dodgems = bumper cars)

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

Seeing the water game theory "resurfacing" and the shifting thread triggered a funny thought. The old timers will know what I'm talking about. Remember before Playstation, Nintendo and Atari and the TV only got 4 stations and had a big dial on it to clunk through the UHF and VHF frequencies we had those board games. Then along came those really cool board games you could plug-in to the wall. You know those vibrating table football games you put all the guys out there for each team and flip that thumb wheel switch on the extension cord and watch in excitement while half your team fell over and the other half collected along the edges depending on the tilt of your floor. But sometimes your running back would get into an end zone! you could also substitute the original pieces with some little green army guys if needed.

Well that was a great time back in the 70's. Since this generation has missed out on this fantastic game, maybe this would be a great 2006 competition aspect. We could instead make all our bots vibrate around on the field and just see where they wind up after 2 minutes. It's certainly a "level playing field" concept. Lets see what those elite teams do with that!

I've never seen electric football in action, but it got me thinking of another game with a buzz: Operation. Do something based off that.

Electrified field: YESSS!!! Let's do it, let's do it. Please, please, puulleeasszze? It'd be fun. It'd be a lot of fun.

By the way, my family used to have one of those big clunker TVs with the hard knobs. It was great. Never died out on us for as long as we had it. Hooked up to it was an old Atari Computer system, NOT a console, but an actual computer. It was marvelous. I'm mad that my parents got rid of it to this day.