The Tandy-12 is a computerized arcade game produced by the Tandy Corporation

Tandy Corporation

Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963. The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.-History:Tandy began in 1919...

 for sale in its Radio Shack

Radio shack

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 chain of stores. It featured "12 challenging games of skill" although a few were more chance / free-style rather than skill. The game had its packaging updated several times since its original release. It was packaged with the game unit itself, manual, a cardboard playing board, and a set of plastic tokens.

Games included in the Tandy-12 were:

• Organ – Electronic Organ with 12 Notes.
• Song Writer – Record a song of up to 44 notes.
• Repeat – Follow a random sequence like in Simon
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• Torpedo – Fire torpedoes to sink enemy submarines.
• Tag-It – Try to catch 110 moles.
• Roulette – Electronic Roulette (Uses playing board).
• Baseball – Electronic Baseball (Uses playing board).
• Repeat Plus – Repeat variant for 2 or more players.
• Treasure Hunt – Variant of the board game Master Mind
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• Complete – Battle of reaction time.
• Fire Away – Destroy enemy invaders.
• Hide 'N Seek – Guess the computers 3 numbers in order.

Specifications

Inside the battery compartment is a label with either 6A2 or 6A3. This is a date stamp code common to all Radio Shack products of the era. The first digit "6" indicates the month of manufacture. The letter "A" is always used as a separator between the year and month. The last number (2 or 3) indicates the last digit of the year. The dimensions of the box are 8 x 10.75 x 3 while the dimensions of the game unit itself is 7.5 x 9.75 x 2.37.. The Tandy-12 was manufactured in the Philippines.