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What was it? - Coolest 1960's Tech Game/Toy I Remember Seeing.

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FAC257

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What was it? - Coolest 1960's Tech Game/Toy I Remember Seeing.

Here's one I have never been able to figure out or retrace what the heck it was. All I can remember is playing with it for a few moments and thinking I wanted one but it was expensive for a toy even back then.

We were stationed at Andrews AFB, so the time frame was mid-late 60's.

Outside of DC there was a GEM store. In the toys section there was a table game that stood on four legs and was about the size of a miniature pool table.

It was a Naval Ship/Submarine game of some sort. The table top was either glass or plastic representing the water. I recall it had grid marks across the top. The only way you could see under the "water" was to use the little periscope things that were mounted on the corners.

Don't have a clue as to what was under the "water" or how you played the thing. I just remember thinking "submarines". At the time I was a huge Avalon Hill fan and I remember thinking it was like a "high tech" Avalon Hill type strategy game.

I've done several searches using word combos that I thought might work but so far only dead ends.

FAC
 
This sounds somewhat like the game setup that was CHOPPER STRIKE. Where you had the helos above the actual board and jeeps with gun mounts moving on the board below. Heck of a game!

I dimly remember the ship/sub game....off to plumb the memory!
 
Odie

Boy, I thought you might have had it with that one. :)

If you could take that game and make it electronic somehow, I think it would be real close. I seem to recall something lit up on the top surface and the key thing were those periscopes that you had to look through.

FAC
 
At that time Battleship was still a paper and pencil game. This thing whatever it was was about 10 or 12 years before Electronic Battleship came along.

FAC
 
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