Le Bomb Tabletop Game

kevtris · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:54 pm Post subject: Le Bomb Tabletop Game

First off, there IS a patent with a picture of the game in it:

http://www.google.com/patents/US4320901

As a kid I had this game called "Le Bomb". It was a large black bomb-shaped game with a red LED blinking nose cone. There was a clear red cover on the side of the bomb that slid open revealing a keypad. There's no displays of any kind except the single LED and a speaker. Sliding the cover open turned it on.

You had to guess the correct code to defuse the bomb without it "exploding". If you made a wrong guess I think the ticking sound and LED got faster and faster. Take too long (or make too many errors) and it made an explosion noise.

Anyways, I cannot find a single shred of information about it on Google or even ebay, let alone who sold it.

It was designed by Marvin Glass & Associates, which also designed Simon, making it all the more mysterious. This seems to imply it was sold by an American company, but I turned up nothing in my search.

I received it as an xmas gift some time in 1980-82 timeframe or thereabouts, and obviously no longer have it.

edit: sorry, looks like this should've went in the "Memories" forum. Please move if possible.

GameHoarder · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:54 am Post subject:

Maybe it was a game that was only made in limited numbers as a advertising campaign give away?

I saw a Green Giant handheld game on eBay years ago that I bid on but wished I had bid more as it is the only one I have ever seen anywhere.
It was given away by the Green Giant canned vegetables company it seems.

I have learned that there have been so many "consumer goods" made with no real records that it is impossible to try and track down many known items.

Maybe it was only released in France or?

Rik · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:26 am Post subject:

Made (well, sold) by Lakeside, it's called 'Le Boom'

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Misc/LakesideLeBoom.htm

U.S. company, it was released here (and overseas as well, probably by different distributors). I've seen it in Sears Catalogs and other magazines from the day...

kevtris · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:36 pm Post subject:

GameHoarder · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:28 pm Post subject:

Did they come in different colors? I notice a yellow one and a black one in the pictures.

Rik · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I don't know if that was different territories, or just the whim of the manufacturer, but I've seen it in Black, white and yellow...

kevtris · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:53 pm Post subject: