So Calagione came up with an inexpensive workaround: He bought one of those vintage vibrating electric football games that were popular in the ‘60s from a thrift store and made some small tweaks ...

Then, as Sas himself noted, they’d have a football game. Norman Sas is gone now. He passed away last week at age 87. His electric football game likely has entertained millions of kids since its ...

This is where the game found Adrian. “It was back in 1977,” he began. Adrian was 7, living in Washington with his mother. He first saw electric football on Christmas morning at his cousin Tony ...

More retro? Something to give you a little buzz? Switch to electric football for a while. Tudor Electric Football games actually haven't gone away for a long time — versions have been on the market ...

And even though it didn’t have the obscure and modest marble chute that somehow forever amused my brothers and me or display that absurd old electric football game, it features a far more ...