Online museum of handheld electronic games
Online museum of handheld electronic games Rob Beschizza 6:45 pm Mon Jul 27, 2026 Tomy Tennis. Photo: Jaro Gielens Electronic Plastic is an online museum with pictures and info of more than 900 handheld electronic games of the retro kind, as collected by Jaro Gielens, who has been collecting them since 1981. Every entry is from his personal library and he kept the original package for all of them.
- ▪Online museum of handheld electronic games Rob Beschizza 6:45 pm Mon Jul 27, 2026 Tomy Tennis.
- ▪Photo: Jaro Gielens Electronic Plastic is an online museum with pictures and info of more than 900 handheld electronic games of the retro kind, as collected by Jaro Gielens, who has been collecting them since 1981.
- ▪Every entry is from his personal library and he kept the original package for all of them.
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Online museum of handheld electronic games Rob Beschizza 6:45 pm Mon Jul 27, 2026 Tomy Tennis. Photo: Jaro Gielens Electronic Plastic is an online museum with pictures and info of more than 900 handheld electronic games of the retro kind, as collected by Jaro Gielens, who has been collecting them since 1981. Every entry is from his personal library and he kept the original package for all of them. It has all the famous models from Tomy, Tiger, Nintendo and other top companies, but countless obscurities too, searchable by name, technology, and even case color. The latest entry is Space King, made in 1983 and "one of the rarest VFD [vacuum fluorescent display] games." There a book to go with the collection, but it's out of print. Here's an interview with Gielens.
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