What an innovative design! GCE (maker of the the Vectrex video system) had function and style in spades in the early 80s. Sliding cover reveals LCD display and switches the unit from calculator to game mode. Enhanced playability with a mini joystick, and 3 “challenging space games.” Time functions, too. Class right down to the play-on-words chosen for the name: Space-N-Counter. Wow…thanks to Ron Osborne for finding this gem in Ludlow, MA!
Vintage Electronics Have Soul – The Pocket Calculator Show Website
I realize this post is eons old but for whatever reason I awoke this morning thinking about this item. I had one when I was a kid. My father worked for Pratt & Whitney East Hartford, CT) and every year they would have a family holiday party at the Hartford Civic Center (if I remember correctly). The kids would each get a gift based on their age range. I think I was six or seven. I remember thinking it was the.coolest.thing. I would play it during class and the teacher and other students were never the wiser. I really wish I had kept it.