Shit I'm old

You want to know how old I am?

When I was a kid my parents got me a plastic maze game from the grocery store. It was comprised of two halves, a red plastic lower shell and a clear plastic upper shell which had maze walls molded into it. The point of the game was obviously to tilt and tumble it around to get the ball from the start to the finish.

Except.

The ball was a goddamn blob of mercury.

Many of the ends of the walls were deliberately V shaped so if your mercury blob hit one it'd get split, part of it going down one path and part of it going down the other. So then you'd have the added challenge of either bringing them back together or separately getting two or more progressively smaller segments of it to the finish. This was an interesting and highly amusing take on the usual kiddie maze-game concept if it weren't for the fact that the ball was a goddamn blob of mercury.

Can you imagine if such a thing were made today and handed to children? There would be a riot. 60 minutes would do a hard hitting prime time exposé. The Biden administration would take out the factory making them with a drone strike.

I am that old, but I am not this old:

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Would play that while waiting for the doctor. They always had it in the waiting room.

Hello fellow 80s/90s children.

Yes :-/

Yes :-(

I've always wanted one of these toys as a PC waterloop reservoir. The playfull aesthetic would be amazing!

I'm quite young and I have used these multiple times. They probably still exists.

Yes, yes I am.

older

Yeah

You could play for 15 minutes and feel like you were speedrunning carpal tunnel and arthritis.

I'm so old this isn't the 1st time I have seen this image

If you die playing this, you don't come back to life tho.

96 year old man finally scores at this

"I DID I-AHH!"

dies of heart attack

Yes but in a different shape like a gameboy or phone (the old nokia kind of ones) where screen was filled with water rings and poles .

I had a Sonic themed one of those. Almost as fun as the actual game.

I remember seeing this around the cash registers at Burger King as a way to win a free sandwich.

I never won.

Ugh yes. And it was awful.

Dentist’s waiting room

I also remember the shampoo Gameboy like version of Donkey Kong I think. It was so cool, till my dad beat me up for ruining the Gameboy in the shower. He only later found out it wasn't the real Gameboy but instead the shampoo bottle game.

I never understood this "game". From what I remember it's just pure chance.

I noticed my indicator was still blinking a minute or so after I changed lanes.

I've heard that anyone that has played this are called tossers.

Yup

My Generation Alpha children loved those. They are still a thing.

I was that poor, that was only thing I had