Quick vid - Casio Invader Game & Calc
Extra video, short video, extra short notice. I've put this together this afternoon - I'll be setting it loose in the morning. It's just a bit of fun. The proper video I was working on all week will be along in a few days.
Have a nice weekend.
1980's Maths Teacher's Enemy - CASIO NUMBER INVADERS are back (YouTube)
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This made me go out and buy a 12 digit Casio, to go with the solar-powered 8-digit Casio calculator I've had since 1994.
Awesome! Never heard of that before. Thanks!
I had one of those calculator game watches, loads of fun in freshman year of high school.
If you like your calculators you may be interested in this quality model that Casio seem to have pulled out all the stops on. <a href="http://web.casio.jp/dentaku/sp/s100/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://web.casio.jp/dentaku/sp/s100/</a> It's proudly made in Japan.
I found that Casio boxing calculator at an estate sale... can't remember if it worked! I'm still up in the air as to which calc I like better; HP or Casio.
I'm wearing a Casio calculator watch right now.
I remember those calculator watches from primary school. Some of the other kids had them and all I had was a "regular" digital watch. Back in those days, I thought they were the coolest thing imaginable :-)
I had an ML-81 which played really annoying beepy music so I could pretend I was a short Phil Oakey :D
I had the Melody 80 (ML80) which played among other tunes Fur Elise.. I also had the ML90 which was much thinner and was portrait orientation whereas ML80/ML81 was landscape orientation
The Casio watch at the start reminds me of the Virus Watch: <a href="http://innomind.hk/images/virus-infra-red-lcd-watch.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://innomind.hk/images/virus-infra-red-lcd-watch.jpg</a> Used to have one as a kid and can't find one anywhere now! Might be a cool gadget to look out for, Techmoan! :)
I've never heard of this. However, I bet it wasn't easy to play on that little calculator watch!
Holy moley! My friend in high school in 1978 had one of those Casio watches with this game, and it was about the time that the first Aliens movie came out. I remember playing that silly yet absorbing game on his watch at lunch hour. Amazing how such a simple game can draw you in.
As always, great vid. I never saw the calculator version, but I remember the watch. I thought it was dumb then, and it's still pretty dumb now, but I guess I wasn't the target audience. My strongest memories of the watches of the late 1970s is the veritable symphony of songs some of them carried.