Technorama Ep425: Scooty Puff Jr

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Listening to Episode 423, you asked what games people played during long car rides. I had one of the early cartridge handheld games.

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It was great for its time. There were a number of different games and I thought the graphics were really good until one whole line in the LCD disappeared and I couldn’t see everything.

On This Day In History for February 4, 2015

This is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1703 that In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.
February 4, 1789, George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
It was 79 years ago today that Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
Also today in 1967, Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg on this date in 2004.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

Russian physicist and mathematician, Nikolay Umov, born on this date in 1846.
Also born on this date in 1986, Germany physicist Friedrich Hund.
The man who discovered the Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh was born today in 1906.
Also born February 4, 1927 is Rolf Landauer, the German-American physicist .
Comedian, actor, and author David Brenner would have been 79 today.
Director and producer George A. Romero turns 75 today.
Also turning 75, a familiar tertiary character in many Star Trek films and shows, actor John Schuck.
And finally, American computer scientist and co-developer of the B programming language, Ken Thompson turns 72.

It’s also SIMS day – to celebrate the launch of the Sims software game launched on this date in the year 2000!

And Sunday Feb 8 is “Clean out your computer day” – but stay subscribed to Technorama.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 4, 2015

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