CLASSIC COMMERCIALS: Blip (1977)

This post over at Battlegrip got me to thinking about other early handheld electronic games - and there are few earlier than Tomy's Blip.



Like most pre-Space Invaders arcade cabinets, Blip was in fact a mechanical game. That ''timer'' you wound-up to play? It's actually a clockwork mechanism that powers the movement of the game's ''ball'' - an LED mounted on a moving pivot that would