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General Chat => Electronic HandHeld Games & Vintage Toys, Home Consoles & Computers => Topic started by: Belike on March 15, 2013, 10:48:50 AM

Title: Atari Touch Me and 2 more
Post by: Belike on March 15, 2013, 10:48:50 AM

Bought a nice Touch Me, it was in a lot with 2 other handhelds for a nice price
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IRm6OHHr8RQ/UULsr4YaqZI/AAAAAAAAHLU/8Vp02vUExK0/s720/Atari%2520Touch%2520Me%2520003.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uzTx8j8d1Zs/UULsrjtSKSI/AAAAAAAAHLI/rDBYQGXJaTg/s720/Atari%2520Touch%2520Me%2520002.jpg)

And the Tiger Bowling and Radio Shack Highway
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4sf304uqWOI/UULsrlaUesI/AAAAAAAAHLQ/ZSkihpFqOf4/s720/Atari%2520Touch%2520Me%2520005.jpg)

Title: Re: Atari Touch Me and 2 more
Post by: Q*ris on March 15, 2013, 11:27:29 AM

How nice is that "Touch Me"!
I'm still trying to find one too (as I've kinda given up on finding the cab).
By the way, I always wondered: does it play that famous Sam Fox song when you win?

I recently found Simon, his circular "cousin", still great fun too.

Title: Re: Atari Touch Me and 2 more
Post by: Superully on March 15, 2013, 01:38:45 PM

nice clean "touch me" example, bela, but of course the upright cab is what i want :arrow:

(http://blogsdelagente.com/blogfiles/aquellosviejos8bits/touch_me_atari_arcade.jpg)

Title: Re: Atari Touch Me and 2 more
Post by: level42 on March 15, 2013, 01:40:29 PM

Wow great, that Touch Me would probably the only hand held I'd want........after all it's an Atari.

Read in "Atari Business is fun" that they had developped more hand-held games but guess who blocked them ? Yup the management guys who were afraid to loose their 2600-selling bonusses....nothing really changes sometimes....

Title: Re: Atari Touch Me and 2 more
Post by: liquidx on March 15, 2013, 04:58:43 PM

I bet that game would be banned today for "sexual innuendo" or something like that.

Title: Re: Atari Touch Me and 2 more
Post by: level42 on March 15, 2013, 06:44:21 PM

Yeah....they intended the Touch Me arcade machine to have the boob-like controls like those of "Gotcha" but it was changed for marketing reasons if I'm not mistaken....

The pocket Touch Me looks like a calculator because......it's in a modded calculator housing.....
The big mistake IMHO are the too small buttons. Ralph Baer was pretty smart to take it to the next level and make a "party"/multi-player game out of it with HUGE buttons.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/OriginalSimon.jpg)