Mattel Electronics handheld games from the 1970s

Man, I love these old hand held games from the 1970s and 1980s. If you remember, these were state of the art back in the day. Funny too - the TV commercials showed kids playing them and having a ball but mentioned nothing about the sounds they made - which proved annoying to the parents, especially on long road trips (which is where you wanted to use them for sure).

 Sorry about the crap photos (using a video camera to take stills as my regular camera has once again seemed to have wandered off; he'll be back when he gets hungry), but the Mattel Electronics Auto Race is in damn near mint condition and includes the original box. The Basketball verson shows fairly heavy play, but has held up well - other than the on off switch being missing (but it still slides back and forth easily enough).

Auto Race is really fun as hell, though. You use the gear shift button as essentially throttle and break. My 10 year old nephew actually enjoyed playing it, he was into it for almost the whole time he was in KC visiting, what a cool kid.