Batteries Not Included
by Mark Taylor
Title
Batteries Not Included
Artist
Mark Taylor
Medium
Painting - Digital / Mixed
Description
Batteries Not included
The eighties were a turning point for electronics, miniaturisation of components made it possible and affordable to mass produce electronic toys that would abstractly represent similar titles from the amusement arcade so that games could be enjoyed without the need to feed in quarters and on the move, assuming you carried a healthy supply of batteries, none of which were ever included in the box.
Thousands of electronic games were produced and millions of units were sold during the second decade of video games history. With simple monotone sound effects to simple LED lights at the start of the decade with the added complexity of colour screens and more complex multi level games being introduced just a few short years later.
Today, those millions upon millions of electronic games have become highly collectible, whilst most aren’t rare, finding a good boxed example can be like finding a needle in a haystack! By the mid eighties, some of these toys would include a socket to plug in an external power supply that would often be shared between many games, assuming it had the right connector. The eighties really didn’t do standards but they did do plastic, there was so much plastic.
I hope this work brings back happy memories of a time when a simple beep, a dim red glow of an early LED light, and the joy of finding new batteries would keep you entertained for hours!
Thanks for looking!
Mark
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September 11th, 2022
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