Etch-A-Sketch Animator? *edited with pic*

[downfall]

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Here is a pic of the cartridge. I went ahead and picked it up because it was cheap, and I happened to be in the area while I was out today. Anyway, here goes:

http://www.myimgs.com/data/downfall/animatorcart.jpg

I threw it next to a Game Boy cart to give you an idea of the size of it.

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So, does anyone know anything about this? I came across a cartridge for it, a racing game, that I believe was simply titled "Racing" - Game Cartridge for the Etch-A-Sketch Animator or something similar to that.

I've searched, and I can't find too much information about the actual animator itself, much less the games. I would just like to know about it. Doesn't seem to be going for much of anything on ebay or anywhere else, which would tend to lead me to believe that it's really not in demand, nor all too collectible.

Just something interesting I came across that I'd like to learn more about.

[Jorpho]

I remember commercials for an old LCD device called the Animator, but I don't remember it being by Etch-a-Sketch, or that it took cartridges.

[Jasoco]

I remember the Etch-A-Sketch Animator. But I didn't know it took Cartridges.

Of course, I only tried it for a minute. It was a friends.

Damn.. I could see the potential. Fun little device where you draw out pixel by pixel a picture. Frame by frame. Then you animate it. A lot of work. And the pixels were big. But it was neat.

Cartridges? Whatever.

I remember commercials. With the animation of a baseball player hitting a ball with the bat.

[downfall]

I edited this with a pic of the cartridge. Sorry for the bump, but I would like to learn more about it before this topic dies.

[dan2357]

There was two versions of the animator. The base animator, which had 2 knobs for drawing the the animator 1000 or 2000 something like that. I have one in my closest if you really want to know. The later of the 2 took carts, I have a golf and I thnk that driving game, the advanced version also has a stylis for drawing. If you want I can take some pics of it and send them to you.

[slapdash]

You're all close, but here's the scoop...

Yes, it's by Ohio Art, makers of the Etch-A-Sketch line.

There are two models -- the EAS Animator does NOT take cartridges, but the EAS Animator 2000 does.

There were four cartridges that I know of, and I THINK that's it: the games Overdrive, Putt Nuts and Fly-By, and Memory, a utility (memory) cartridge.

[downfall]

Thanks for your help!

And I appreciate the offer to take pics, but I've already seen pics of it during my searches. Just couldn't find a bit of information otherwise. Thanks again anyway though.

[Ed Oscuro]

Second what Slapdash said...I find it odd that the cartridge is labeled "Etch-A-Sketch Animator" when the Animator couldn't take carts. Except, of course, for the subtext "2000" designation.

I also had (have, somewhere) an EAS Animator; haven't used it in years but it probably still works. So much fun was had making silly cartoons with that thing :)