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Mattel Football (1977) Models on Display:Mattel Football 000 units in its firstMattel Football First Commercially Successful Digital Handheld Video Game Mattel Electronics Football, released in 1977, was a handheld revolution that proved a few blinking red LEDs could be more addictive than a high end arcade cabinet. Engineered by Mark Lesser and crammed into just 511 bytes of code, the game challenged players to navigate a bright red dash (the running back) through a field of dimmer red dashes (the defenders) on a vertical,