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Though we drifted apart over the years, I shall always relish the good times we shared. I will miss you Radio Shack, my old friend.

I also have fond memories of my 150-in-1 electronics lab. Oh wow, the Archer Space Patrol walkie talkie with morse code. I had the Robie Junior as a kid! I used to tease my cat with him.

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What I’d most like to have now: probably one of the public address horns so that I could tell the drivers in front of me to kindly put down their phone and keep their eyes on the road. The two I’d most like to play with as a kid: Armatron for sure and the radio controlled Lamborghini… or maybe the tank. I mentioned Cosmic Fire Away 1000, then there was Talking Robie, Z-707 Robot Tank…I am going to have to add some more. There are a bunch of Radio Shack toys I had that aren’t even up here (yet). I had the white electromechanical Blackjack game, and I played it endlessly on car trips.

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My older cousin had this Radio Shack robot bring him his TV remote whenever he wanted it. I would LOVE to try out the first Blackjack game listed. I played with the cash register as a kid and the Draw Poker handheld. Other Radio Shacks in the area primarily focus on cell phones and everything that can possibly be connected to cell phones at high prices. This ended about 10 years ago when our local store went under. Radio Shack used to be my family’s first and only stop for anything audio-visual: video cables, audio wires, telephone cords, etc. Oh, the wonderful memories this post is bringing back. I think it’s still in my parents’ basement somewhere. I played with it until I broke the arm, and then I kept using it by just pulling the buttons out to spin the reels. Oh, that Blackjack game with the arm and the motorized wheels! I played with that all the time when I was a kid (the slot machine one too, and I think there was a poker one like it as well or something like that). Another one bites the dust, it’s evolution.

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The last thing I bought at RS were some PC external speakers back in 2009, unfortunately the RS store near my house went belly up around 2010, their prices were a little higher than the rest of the local competitors and their inventory available at the store looked like it had been sitting there undisturbed for a couple of years maybe. Pinging is currently not allowed.ġ7 Responses to “The Glorious, Colorful World of Radio Shack Toy and Game Box Art” You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Friday, February 6th, 2015 at 4:26 pm and is filed under Computer History, Electronic Toys, Gaming History, News & Current Events, Retrogaming, Vintage Computing.

Tags: Archer, art, bankrupcy, box art, cell phones, electronic games, electronic toys, game history, Optimus, Radio Shack, Tandy, walkie talkies How many of these have you owned or played? For good measure, I threw in a handful of non-toy product boxes as well (such as one for a Zack Morris-sized cell phone and a pocket TV set).Īs you look through them below, I have but one question to ask: In honor of the foundering electronics retailer, I pulled together a slightly massive collection of Radio Shack toy and game box art from the late 1960s up to the early 2000s.

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Pocket Blackjack, electronic chess, Pocket Repeat, RC cars, tiny kid DJ stations, microphone FM transmitters, electronic coin banks, joysticks, talking alarm clocks (Dare I add the Tandy 1000 series and the TRS-80 Color Computer). The Armatrons and Cosmic Fire Away 1000s. The batteries!Ībove and beyond all that were the games, the toys, the amusements. My first kiss…well, a Radio Shack robot, of course.Īnd who can forget the batteries. My first cassette recorder, microphone, telephone, cordless telephone all came from Radio Shack. My first IBM compatible PC was a Tandy 1800HD laptop. I could go through my parents’ house today and fill a moving van with that stuff: speakers, tapes, radios, hi-fi receivers, turntables, headphones, microphones, clocks, intercoms, outlet timers, telephones, cables, wires, adapters and more. And sadly, it has taken the impending death of Radio Shack for me to realize how absolutely ingrained its products have been in my life.Īs the son of an electronics engineer living in the US, our home growing up held at least five Radio Shack products per room (or those of its related brands: Tandy, Realistic, Optimus, Archer, or Micronta). After 94 years in business, it is likely that Radio Shack will soon be no more.