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What's the name of this old electronic game?

Asked by global_nomad (1906points) November 1st, 2009

I can’t remember the name of this old game I used to have as a kid and it’s driving me crazy. It was a blue and purple laptop looking thing that plugged into the TV. You bought different books to go with it and those went on the top part. There was a pen that you used to write and draw with on the bottom half (where the keyboard would be if it was a laptop). You looked at the TV to see what you were drawing etc…The book had different pages with different games and things to do. I think it was made by Fisher-Price. I think the name was something with a P and somethig to do with pixels. Like Pixter or something, but it’s not that.

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Tink's avatar

A Pixar?

mrentropy's avatar

Man, I’m old. I thought it was going to be about those old Coleco and Mattel hand held games with the LEDs. Or the Coleco tabletop arcade things.

Is it an InteracTV?

lamedb's avatar

Pico???

God, I haven’t thought about that since I let go of it…

oratio's avatar

@lamedb Searched what lamedb said. # This?

global_nomad's avatar

Oh my gosh! Yes, a Pico!!! Thanks @lamedb! :D

lamedb's avatar

How old are you then? We must both be quite young to have had that game console. I’m 19.

I had only 2 books for Pico-one that was a mathmatics game with sea creatures and diamonds, gems, etc. The other was from some show, of which I forget the name.

LeetaLuminate's avatar

nintendo? or not?

global_nomad's avatar

@LeetaLuminate Sega.

@lamedb Yeah, I’m 19. I remember we had four books. The Mickey Mouse one, the Richard Scarry one (at least I think it was Richard Scarry), The Berenstain Bears one, and my favorite: The Magic School Bus one! The Pico was pretty sweet though. I wonder if we still have it?

NewZen's avatar

<Thinks> God, I’m ancient.

vincentcent's avatar

@NewZen I am feeling the same way

mrentropy's avatar

Back in my day we had an Atari VCS and had to use our imagination to get really good graphics. We were happy with the ‘bips’ and ‘boops’ because we could tell what a game was just by listening to it.

“Endings?” The only endings we got was when the game got stupidly hard and it was impossible to continue. Unless we’re talking about Adventure; that’s a different story.

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