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| Posted by: loki
- SuperDude [4211201420] Mon, Jul 09, 2012, 15:53
Those of us over a certain age grew up playing Electric Football. This low tech game entertained for hours as we tried to get plastic football players to go in the right direction on a vibrating metal field or to complete a forward pass with the contraption supplied with the game using a little felt football.
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Leader
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Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 17:49
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I remember they could be running for a touchdown with nobody around, and suddenly veer right and go straight out of bounds. Or, even worse, turn around and start running in the wrong direction. We had some good times, though.
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Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 18:49
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love electric football. I spent a lot of time as a kid putting numbers on my squads and testing bases. I had a little box of notecards that showed the pattern of each players base. My right side wide receiver would run a post to the left, for example. Still, most of what happened come game time was random.
My dad had a play we ended up calling the power play, and it was broken and required rule changes. Believe it was ultimately only allowed on 4th down.
This is the power play:
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Grouped together like that they plow through the defense and stay straight long enough to get some yardage, and it's hard to touch the RB when he is surrounded. Of course this play is illegal formation but that didn't stop my dad (or me).
I have a newer electric football game. They run on batteries now and are less obnoxious, and less dangerous I guess.
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Leader
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Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 15:15
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Yeah, we had the power play and a few variations of that, all illegal. The way to stop the power play was for the defense to use the same power play.
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Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 20:33
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exactly. our variations were basically just angled power plays.
when I was a kid I used to imagine how cool it would be to have a life size electric football field. Hell I'm still imagining it!
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