Too Much Electric Football Part 2

Coleco was also starting to downsize and economize, making smaller Electric Football games and games with more plastic in them – i.e. cheaper games. They were even making several Electric Football models that didn’t have usable end zones like the one below in the Alden’s Christmas catalog.

A downsized Coleco game with more plastic parts.

Tudor’s Electric Football games were dominant again in the major Christmas catalogs, and in Christmas advertising.

Tudor NFL games in the Ward and JC Penney Christmas catalogs.

Despite a television ad campaign involving The Tonight Show, Munro found its Day/Nite Game in Sears Surplus Stores as Christmas neared.

Oh, and we didn’t even mention the November 1973 Oil Crisis that sent the U.S. economy into a recession. That complete story is in The Unforgettable Buzz.

Earl & Roddy

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