What makes BLIP tick?

[kingjeste]

Wow.Never heard of this game. Looks interesting and so do the inside's.. Luv taking apart stuff.. :-))

[yrojjory]

So neat to see the inside. I've had a BLiP since I was a kid. Mine still works!

[SuperMatschbirne]

Hightech in the Seventies... very interesting insight.

[albertusj]

Wow

[albertusj]

Frustrating

[HardyGirl66]

When I used to teach after school care a couple of years ago, I used to bring this in, and my class loved it. It is pretty challenging, and we used to have tournaments. Who says today's kids don't like old school toys?

[MusicGaming1]

hm... i wondering if thats a mecanical game instead of a digital game...

[lemonrind]

Insanity.

[wolfgangmoritz]

A friend had one of these back then, we played the heck out of it. It's funny watching you get frustrated with it now, with expectations based on 30+ years of real digital stuff.

The trick is that the ball breaks one way or another about one third of the way from the halfway line to the point where it stops. You have to watch and be quick with your fingertips.

Being math geeks, we also checked how random it was by recording several hundred samples of where it went. It was =very= random.

[Synthetrix]

My brother had one of these when we were kids in the 70s. Good times!

[solhsa]

If you'd want to do one these days, the LED would probably be the cheapest part..

[johnlovesbridge]

Im surprised at how complex the internal workings are, much more interesting than the actual game.

[superspit]

"ok, screw this, let's smash the farkin God awful thing..."

[deeks1970]

No offense, but I hated this game.

[nintram]

I demand an explanation why does the woman use just one hand? To slow down the gameplay, or is in use somewhere else? Or just plain stupidity? Geez,

[John6verse47]

I don't like it.

[ElectronicsIsFun]

Gosh! I remember this when I was in high school.

GuruSantiago

ElectronicsIsFun

[droutsolias]

amazing engineering..

[beriorgar]

that's one awesome mechanism, I'd love one of these for myself

[jpowell180]

I had one of these as a kid - I was very impressed by the commercial, but when I finally got one (for Chrismas or a birthday - I don't remember which), I was of course disappointed - I wanted video-game type action, but it was a primitive wind-up gizmo.

I was ten and craved advanced technology - I didn't want any old-timey stuff like wind-up toys or "tick tock" (as I called them) watches!

[LHZZ12MM]

@jpowell180

I got one too, and had the same exact expectations from the commercial, and the same dissapointment when there was this whiny motor. I played it a bit, but it ended up breaking I think.

[Alexander4913]

you should do a long exposure picture with a camera and see if there is a sequence or a pattern to how the LED moves

[tommyrock69]

I had this game and LOVED it! I'm glad someone finally took it apart. I guess they could call it "digital" because we used our fingers.

[RantovRizzia]

Cool video. Blip rocks. Screw the critics. I like the music too

[OnionRingOfDoom]

really interesting, but the boops in the background are driving me crazy!

[frontenbrecher]

whats that music you used?

author?

[Supersecretfilms]

my first video game was GALAGA!

and i love it still on my xbox 360

[Mutilator2084]

THIS MUSIC SUCKS

[atarileaf]

I think this was my first video game. Wow the memories. :)

[zebrumera]

phe he he

[punkit743]

Brings back memories, Had one in mint condition which i gave to friends kid along with an astrowars space invader game, while ago then saw some are collectible...never mind eh.

[michael123425]

where did u get it

[oskay]

>where did u get it

eBay. There are lots of them around, so they're not expensive, and it's an amazing piece of engineering. :)

[iansquared3]

very clever device!

[megaz0id]

It feels odd to me watching somebody probably in their 20's pop open a child's toy from the late 70's and go "Wow, look at this bizarro mechanism!"

The background track and general "intensity" of this is all wrong. Unless you were being ironic, in which case you didn't go far enough.

[oskay]

Pardon me, but screw you.

[Ranoko123]

@oskay i don't even see the point of his reaction rofl xD and i find it very amusing as i'm 17 years young myself, didn't even know of such toys =p (but indd please use my music instead of this one xD)

[aleforrak]

@megaz0id just take a look at their blog and your opinion will change.

[PressStartJerk]

Interesting to see inside, but what the hell were you thinking with this music? One repeating note the entire time? No.

[antdude]

No kidding and I had to fast forward too.

[spaceboing]

I had to stop watching because it was torture watching you guys suck at Blip.

[cranie4]

These were the games we grew up with folks. "Football" games that had plastic figures moving around the field by vibration, hockey that was nothing more than a bunch of metal rods you pushed, pulled, and twisted to shoot a puck into a goal. Anything that took batteries took "C" cells...  Ah..memories ;)

[PavelZajec]

In 1971 I got a game called Amaza-a matic Football-it was "computerized". In reality it worked through a bunch of push button switches-it was still cool for the time.

[Rocko72]

Amazing for then but now its histarical

[Riushinn]

i loved these

[m0nde]

cool and stuff. i miss my old Takara Tomy toys.

[KickF]

Oh the irony calling that "the digital game" hahaha ... many thank to taking it apart and showing how it works ... I took my Tomy Racing simulater apart when I was 12 ... seen other Tomy stuff that I realy would like to take apart and study abit to, but yea ... collecters xD

[chunnygoat]

hardest game ever

[rolan]

I had one of those! Back then, mechanics were simpler (and cheaper) than microchips. There is a cheat to the game, if you hold down your red "serve" lever, the ball will always be returned.

[EnavSounds]

this deserve to be on failblog

[quietthomas]

Elegant in a messy way.

[nybrad716]

I had this game when I was a kid... I cant believe you couldnt play it better then that lol

[TheRoyalFreshness69]

wtf is this?

[ovatharim]

really is a pretty genius little toy

[icebarrage1166]

2 AAs for just one LED? they are trying to make it look alot better then it actually is.

[Thicite]

nice graphics it has

[shaurz]

If they have batteries for the LED, why not use a motor instead of a wind-up mechanism?

[Dawg658Jr]

Very interesting gadget there. And to think something like that was fun to play back then! Hah. 5 stars. :)

[AtvProjects]

that would be like one of the games i would chuck at a wall because it would be more annoying then fun(that's My opinion)

[crazyFLkid]

lol

[Chanterbarry]

Very cool!

[PorsukToros]

this is totally awesome. bizarre or not, the person who invented this weird game was sooo smart. a weird mechanim and a pong game... interesting.

[kraudio7]

Bizarre but pretty awesome. I wish I was 20 in 1977 just to see those things first hand ahah

[robot797]

you also could give it to my instead of destroying it

[BlackJavaBean]

I couldn't imagine that game being fun. But, I'm sure in 1977 there weren't a whole lot of games that were much more advanced.

You can that you two getting frustrated with the mechanism in the first two minutes.

[thadude1337]

fake digital then

[KingBurdos]

looks pretty cool i wonder where u can buy one??

[PyroFreakDJ]

it look slike a 1978 product

[PyroFreakDJ]

@PyroFreakDJ

Wooot, I just looked the guy below me about 1977 and then in the desciption. ah i was almost right haha

[Ishidasouken]

1977

those clever japanese

[WASDsweden]

THE FUTURE IS HERE!

[duby149]

this shit looks stupid

[RedNapalm]

Pretty damn well thought out!

[PivotAX]

That seriusly looks hard XD it would take 30 min to get used to it

[xxl606]

that's some complicated mechanics for such a simple game :D

[adsim92]

That looks like a pain in the ass lol

[Superkaye123]

that looks hard first fate comment and view