Holiday Flashback: 1980 TV news report explains video games

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- Back in 1980, the hottest gifts in stores were electronic toys you connected to your TV, or handheld games you could take with you!

The biggest concern among parents? That kids might spend too much time playing them.

So innocent --- they had no idea what was coming!

Enter the Eyewitness News Vault and let us know what your first electronic toy was!

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