Galen Tatsuo Komatsu wrote:


hi,

	Don't know if you know this, but since I don't readily see mention
of it on your page, I'll assume no.

	Long before Tiger and I figure Gary Watson's "Flip", Parker Bros.
released a handheld game called Merlin which featured 6 different games.
(1979 is floating in my mind, but I'm not sure.)

	Tic-tac-toe, blackjack, mastermind, among others, one of which was
a game called "Magic Square."  Played on a 3x3 grid, it had a similar
idea, though the affected squares were different:  (O=button pressed,
X=affected squares)

OX: corner square
XX:
:::

XOX edge square
:::
:::

:X: center square
XOX
:X:

The objective was to light up all squares but the center (game started by
putting up a random pattern.)