According to Wikipedia, in 1979 game designer Yokoi saw a bored businessman playing with a calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of an idea for a watch that doubled as a miniature game machine for killing time and the Nintendo Game & Watch was born. — 123rf.com
I LOVE puzzles and boardgames. And as far back as I can remember, we would always be playing something or other, whether it was checkers, snakes and ladders, blackjack, solitaire or Mastermind.
The most unique games/toys I remember getting was a Ding Bat, or paddle ball, in 1977 (which I cherished and played with all the time, hoping to be the next paddle ball champion), and an Etch A Sketch, a mechanical drawing toy.
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