Mattel Electronic Football - The Height of Gaming Technology

When this came out it was the apex of electronic gaming. My brother had snagged one of these Mattel Electronic Football games for Christmas and it soon afforded us hours and hours of thumb numbing joy. Like may football-type games (see electric football here), it is more window dressing than an actual simulation of playing football.

Basically there were three rows by which you could move your 'man' forward. You had to wait for the 'defense' to get out of the way and then ran down the open row before you were 'tackled'. There were two speeds "Pro 1" and "Pro 2", the first was impossibly easy and the second was impossibly hard. Only fools ever 'kicked' and it had some memorable if not simple electronic beeps sfx (especially upon turning the ball over on downs).

Surprisingly, I still don't have this somewhere in my packrat collection. I believe I eBayed it several years ago for a small fortune ($18 rings a bell).