Gotham 1972 NFLPA G-1506 Electric Football Game

This is the 1972 version of the Gotham electric football game we featured in the last post. Gotham has now turned this model into a large game (38″ x 21″), and renumbered it. It’s now the NFLPA G-1506.

It’s basically a large gameboard with a Joe Namath grandstand. The game still had the player “self stick name tabs” and Gotham had finally gotten around to supplying single-posted goalposts. Gotham had also abandoned their metal quarterbacks, now buying oversized plastic quarterback figures from Coleco’s supplier in Portugal.

At this point it was really difficult for Gotham to compete with Tudor, Coleco, and Munro. And the G-1506 is a tough one to find because they just weren’t popular. Gotham’s tooling by this point was pretty suspect too. The games weren’t built to last. But they are an invaluable part of electric football history.

Earl & Roddy.

Gotham 1972 NFLPA G-1506 Electric Football game