Tomytronic

Tomytronic

Manufacturer	Tomy
Release date	1981 (1981)
Display	VFD
Controller input	hand hold

Tomytronic was a name used for various portable video game consoles, released by Tomy from 1980 ^{[1] [2]} onwards. These included:

• LCD games such as Slimline Speedway ^{[2] [3]}
• Tabletop games
• Tomytronic 3D range of devices launched in 1983 ^[4] .

Tabletop games

Tabletop games released include:

• Basketball ^[1]
• Pac Man (AKA Puck Man, Munch Man) ^{[5] [6] [7]} (Also sold under the ‘Tomy LSI game’ brand ^[8] and in Australia by Futuretronics as Pac Man-1 ^[9] )
• Scramble (AKA Rambler, Astro Blaster ^[10] , Alien Attack) ^{[11] [12]}
• Caveman ^[13]
• Tron ^{[14] [15] [7]}

References

1. "Tomytronic Basketball". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
2. "A History of Handheld Gaming". Pad and Pixel. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
3. "Tomy Slimline Speedway". Handheld games museum. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
4. "10 Classic Portable Games of the 1980s". PC Mag. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
5. "Tomy Pac Man". Handheld Games Museum. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
6. "Pac-Man: When Monsters Became Ghosts". Atari Compendium. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
7. "10th December, 2024". MADrigal's simulators. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
8. "The Puckman by Tomy". The Old Robots Website. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
9. "Futuretronics". Fandom. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
10. "Tomy Astro Blaster". Handheld Games Museum. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
11. "Tomytronic Scramble game". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
12. "Tomy Scramble/Rambler". Handheld Games Museum. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
13. "Tomy Caveman". Handheld Games Museum. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
14. "Disney Through the 1980s: A Breakthrough into Video Games". The Disney Classics. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
15. "Tomy Tron". Handheld Games Museum. Retrieved 23 April 2025.