Someone on eBay is selling a bunch of closeout items from Child World/Children's Palace, a US toy store chain that went bankrupt in 1992, years before all the other retailers started doing it.
All kinds of toys and games from the 1980s and early 1990s can be found, complete with smushed boxes and wrinkled packaging, but I'd like to focus on one oddity in particular: a game cartridge for something called the Light Games LCD Projection System.
I've never heard of this machine myself, but it reminds me of the R-Zone Super Screen, which came out less than a decade later. Like Tiger's handheld, each game cartridge has its own LCD that is then projected. While the Super Screen has its own screen (hence the name), Light Games projects its image outward, like an overhead projector, so you have to play it on a wall or projector screen, if you have one handy.
Light Games was originally sold by Playtime, which was eventually acquired by Tyco. Grandstand distributed it in the UK; Fantastiko handled distribution in Italy.
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