Game Housing

Tomy, patent filed January 22nd, 1980

I’d completely forgotten about Tomy’s handheld action games until I stumbled upon this patent–even though we had some of them around the house when I was a kid. They were low tech, but ingeniously so–you filled this basketball game with water as if it were a tiny aquarium, and the basketball darted around inside like a plastic fish when the players whacked at it. It was a lot of fun and a heck of a lot cheaper than any electronic equivalent of the time.