{"id":1252,"date":"2013-06-02T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:06:38","slug":"my-awesome-video-game-watch-from-1981-nelsonic-space-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/my-awesome-video-game-watch-from-1981-nelsonic-space-attacker\/","title":{"rendered":"My awesome video game watch from 1981 &#8211; Nelsonic Space Attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This watch was made in 1981, so I was probably 11 or 12 when I first got it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Space Attacker video game watch from a company called Nelsonic.\u00a0 I loved this watch and so did just about everyone I encountered &#8230; both kids and adults alike.\u00a0 This watch made the junior high version of me pretty popular!\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1259\" alt=\"Nelsonic space attacker video game watch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-400x127.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-400x127.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-1024x326.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click for full size)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-close-up.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1260\" alt=\"Nelsonic space attacker video game watch - close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-close-up-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-close-up-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nelsonic-space-attacker-video-game-watch-close-up-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click for full size)<\/p>\n<p>The game is quite addictive for as simple as it is.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically a simplified version of Space Invaders.\u00a0 One button changes the direction of the cannon launcher and the other button fires.\u00a0 The invading space ships march across the screen and get closer if you don&#8217;t shoot them down.\u00a0 They shoot at you too.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video that someone posted of the game on their watch:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1gwNYObNPo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1gwNYObNPo<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nThis watch is built very well and it stood up to lots of junior high abuse.  Please leave a comment below if you remember playing with my video game watch in junior high!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a nice web article on the watch, complete with a tear down:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/watches.gafortiby.com\/watch\/Nelsonic_Space_Attacker_Game_watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/watches.gafortiby.com\/watch\/Nelsonic_Space_Attacker_Game_watch\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nThanks,<br \/>\nKurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This watch was made in 1981, so I was probably 11 or 12 when I first got it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Space Attacker video game watch from a company called Nelsonic.\u00a0 I loved this watch and so did just about everyone I encountered &#8230; both kids and adults alike.\u00a0 This watch made the junior high version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109,108],"tags":[149,431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}