Merlin

I can't for the life of me remember whom I was talking with the other week when a friend of a friend tried to describe this game she loved as a kid that was "shaped like a phone sorta but had all these red lights and played games" and I cried "Merlin!"

I loved Merlin as a kid. I can't imagine any child today thinking this was an acceptable hand-held gaming device. But yeah, it was cool. I can remember exactly where I kept it in my childhood room.

Gizmodo celebrates 1979, and the Merlin.