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Game:Bi-Plane Battle

Tomy Corp.ca. 2000

The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester , United States

Small hand-held games like this one, also called dexterity puzzles, represent contemporary versions of similar types of games popular throughout the twentieth century. Typically, a small rectangular glass-topped 'box' holds metal balls and the object is to move the box, manipulating the balls into a target. Various versions in the museum's collection feature mice into a trap, baseball games, simpler mazes, and bombs into Japanese cities--an extreme example from 1945. These contemporary modern versions have up-to-date graphics. Some are takeoffs of computer and video games such as Frogger and Space Invaders, others simply mimic old fashioned toys.

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  • Title: Game:Bi-Plane Battle
  • Creator: Tomy Corp.
  • Date Created: ca. 2000
  • Location: Carson, CA
  • Subject Keywords: military, war
  • Type: More Games
  • Medium: plastic, printed cardboard
  • Object ID: 109.66770
  • Credit Line: Gift of Doug & Randi Olin and Marc & Jill Olin in memory of Stephen Olin
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