27th March, 2009 - Ten Toys I Remember #3

Pocketeers!

How I loved the Pocketeer. Even the very name – Pocketeer – speaks faintly of adventure. When you had a Pocketeer, you were a bit like a Muskateer, except you were not an Eighteenth Centrury French dandy with a rapier, but instead were a small boy from Lanarkshire with a snorkel jacket an a cheap plastic toy.

But – Pocketeers were the computer games of their day. In the days before the Game Boy, the manufacturers of the Pocketeer had realised that there is nothing – nothing! – that small boys of a certain age like better than to have a game that fits in your pocket.