[CornFed]

With Foto Electric Football you actually called plays from a 24 card playbook and defenses from a 12 card set. Cards were overlayed on an opaque field with a light bulb underneath. The old True Action game even had a passer with a spring loaded delivery of the small cloth football. I don’t think a pass was ever completed while we played.

I had that one, too, and it was far more interesting than electric football.  But we had some WICKED fights about whether or not the lines had touched to indicate a tackle.

There was also an NFL endorsed game (I think it was called NFL Strategy) with many more cards for both offense and defense which, when overlaid, created windows showing various possible results for the play.  Then you pulled a bead back against a spring and where it stopped indicated which window was used to determine the outcome of the play.  That was the best game for a long time and actually held our interest even as we became more sophisticated in our early teens.

[CornFed]

With Foto Electric Football you actually called plays from a 24 card playbook and defenses from a 12 card set. Cards were overlayed on an opaque field with a light bulb underneath. The old True Action game even had a passer with a spring loaded delivery of the small cloth football. I don’t think a pass was ever completed while we played.

I had that one, too, and it was far more interesting than electric football.  But we had some WICKED fights about whether or not the lines had touched to indicate a tackle.

There was also an NFL endorsed game (I think it was called NFL Strategy) with many more cards for both offense and defense which, when overlaid, created windows showing various possible results for the play.  Then you pulled a bead back against a spring and where it stopped indicated which window was used to determine the outcome of the play.  That was the best game for a long time and actually held our interest even as we became more sophisticated in our early teens.