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Merlin, the device of THE FUTURE… Well, to people in the 70s anyway.
Apparently, Merlin was to the people of the 1970s what Game Boy was to the people of the late-1980s, I guess. Merlin may look like an 80s version of the Batman phone, but it was actually a technologically-advanced device of non-stop fun!
Merlin was first put out by board game icon Parker Brothers in 1978. And I wasn’t joking about it being technologically-advanced, because Wikipedia says that it came from the mind of NASA employee Bob Doyle who invented it along with his wife and brother-in-law. Merlin was shaped like an 80s cell phone, and had six games programmed into it, including Tic Tac Toe, Blackjack, a Simon-like game, and a Mastermind-type game.
Merlin being named after the wizard makes sense if this commercial is telling the truth. Because in it, a grandpa effortlessly plays Merlin without having to ask a youngin’ forty five million questions about it before throwing it on the floor in a gruff huff to get into some REAL entertainment (re-runs of Perry Mason). Merlin was truly made of magic if it turned a grandpa into a master at electronic gaming.
Merlin was highly popular throughout the late-70s and 80s and sold millions upon millions of units. Parker Brothers rebooted Merlin in 1995 and brought it back with a whopping NINE games (!!!!) on it.
I was going to have an “okay, gen x-er” moment by saying that I miss the simpler times when playing six games on some ugly oversized red cell phone brought joy, but no, I don’t. I mean, what’s the point of an electronic device if it can’t have porn on it? The only reason I have games on my phone is so that I can switch to one really quick when someone walks by as I’m watching porn.
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