When I was a child, my parents got me a toy that I loved to play with. I cannot remeber what the hell it was called…
It was an white electronic Tic Tac Toe game, maybe about the size of a laptop computer. It had an oversized keypad on the top with clear buttons, laid out like a phone/tic tac toe matrix. One would press these keys and they would light up one of 2 colors to indicate your selection. You could either play vs. a friend, or…
…a chicken. There was a plastic dome at the top of the device that had a mock-up chicken inside. As I recall, it would cluck when picking a spot to place its “X” and would go batshit if you beat it (spin around, cluck like crazy, etc).
Has anyone ever seen this game, or have any idea what it is called/who made it? I asked my parents, but they have no recollection of it, and think I’m crazy.
You know this is all so that you can finally beat that damn chicken.
You’re going to spend weeks on line and hundreds of dollars and make enemies as you hunt down the winner of the auction you barely lost and make his life hell and the restraining order and the jail time and the unraveling of your sanity as you play tictactoe on your cell wall and start to have deep dada-esque conversations with the chicken…
See, if you imagine that the tic tac toe board is a phone pad, and you select postion “2”, the chicken will always select position "7.’ Then you pick “3” and he blocks the win by selecting “1.” Then you pick the center square, “5”, and he’s cooked, as you now have 2 winning moves and he can only block one.
I was disappointed my parents didn’t remember this damn thing, cause my mom would tell all her friends that I knew how to beat the chicken (not that chicken).
You got me. Chicken does pick 9 most of the time. Once in a while, based on whatever fuzzy chicken logic he has, he would pick 7 instead, in which case you would pick “1” and win by a similar strategy.
I got the two confused - I think its been 20 years since I’ve seen that game, lol.
