The Toy World Goes Electronic Tudor was still selling Electric Football games and teams…and at this point, they were the only company making Electric Football. But 120 new electronic games were set to debut at Toy Fair. And by the … Continue reading
Oil Crisis Hits the Economy The oil crisis hit the U.S. at the end of 1973. This sent the U.S. economy into free fall and the toy business into turmoil, with toy shortages during the 1973 Christmas season. The toy … Continue reading
Too Much Electric Football Almost 40 different Electric Football games were available in 1972. That was a much different number from a decade earlier, when Tudor and Gotham combined for a grand total of four different models in 1962. And … Continue reading
Coleco Command Control Coleco continues to push the competition in Electric Football by bringing “Command Control” to Toy Fair. Command Control consists of two metal rods under the game offering magnetic control of one player on each team. Kids playing … Continue reading
A New Game for Tudor The Norman Sas and Joe Tonole partnership turned out to be a good one. So good that in 1949, with Joe Tonole’s expert help, Norman Sas debuted the Tudor Tru-Action Electric Football No. 500 game … Continue reading
Our Electric Football Game Top 20 Countdown moves further into the single digits with No. 8 — the 1968 Tudor AFL No. 520. The No. 520 holds the distinction of being the ONLY official AFL Electric Football game ever made. … Continue reading
Sas Family 2018 Toy Fair Visit To Tudor Games In life there are moments, and then there are Moments. And one of my all-time Electric Football moments took place several weeks ago at Toy Fair. That’s when the Sas family … Continue reading
Toy Fair 2018 Toy Fair is an amazing experience. Always overwhelming in its size, and in the number of people attending the event. How can there be so many toys? How can there be so many toy buyers? And a … Continue reading
It’s Toy Fair Time of Year Again!! It’s amazing that another New York City Toy Fair has come and gone. This mark’s the 5th year in a row that I’ve been a guest in the Tudor Games booth at the … Continue reading
Going to Toy Fair in New York City is always exciting. As we documented in The Unforgettable Buzz, so much Electric Football history was made at Toy Fair, that anytime you can be part of the event…it’s special. And we’re … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been writing about Electric Football for over THREE years now on The Unforgettable Buzz web page. As we mentioned last year, we just didn’t think there was that much to say! But how wrong … Continue reading
Electric Football ephemera is something we have a special passion for. We love finding old shipping boxes, or dated invoice forms with Electric Football items checked and tallied. A special thrill came this year at Toy Fair when Tudor President … Continue reading
Toy Fair is always a unique and overwhelming experience. The 2015 event was no different, and even carried the additional factor of near zero degree temperatures on the streets of New York City. But it was business as usual inside … Continue reading
The Electric Football Game Top 20 Countdown moves into the Top 5 today with a very special game — the 1961 Gotham Pressed Steel NFL G-1500 model. This groundbreaking game has long been one of the most under appreciated games … Continue reading
One of our 2014 highlight of highlights came in June, when we were asked to be on the Beyond The Game television show in White Plains, NY. Host John Voperian did an fantastic job with the interview because he had … Continue reading
Electric Football had quite a year in 2014. It was a good year for Tudor Games, who held TudorCON 14 in January, then got the NFL back where it belongs in time for the football season. These are two monumental … Continue reading
With Toy Fair 2014 already in the rear view mirror, we found ourselves thumbing through The Unforgettable Buzz taking a look at Toy Fair’s past. One that happened 60 years ago caught our eye, because it featured the first Electric … Continue reading
Sometimes it’s being in the right place at the right time. I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days at Toy Fair 2014 last week, once again a guest of Tudor Games President Doug Strohm. The Unforgettable Buzz had … Continue reading
We’ve been using our “Before Electric Football” posts to describe football games that were designed and patented before Tudor showed up with the Tru-Action model at the 1949 Toy Fair. Today’s post is about at game that was patented by E.H. … Continue reading
One of the first Electric Football mysteries we set out to solve in The Unforgettable Buzz was the year of the game’s debut. Was it 1947 or 1949? The 1947 date first appeared when Miggle Toys resurrected the game in … Continue reading