MERLIN (1978) - Full Review 

A happy new year to everyone!

I loved this game when I was a kid but I never ever ever understood Magic Square. It seems that nobody knew how to play it ☺️. This was my favourite childhood toy!! Thanks for the reminder.

Guys I had a Merlin! What a blast from the past! Certainly brought a tear to my eye... Edit. I remember cards that you could place over the lights? Maybe a later version or a Merlin v2?

Very cool! I still have my Merlin from childhood. We had some pretty cool toys and electronics in the 1970s. Your video has inspired me to break mine out and make a video about it.

I am a master of magic square. In your example 1,6,7 would have solved the square. My problem with merlin was no volume control and as I would play in bed my mom would scream at me to go to sleep because it is loud. I still remember muffling the speaker with my palm!

I was born in 1976 and would see these randomly in people's houses and never knew what they were...thanks!

I got one of these for christmas the year they came out... it quickly became a constant companion and was sometimes used any anything but a handheld game... Over time it eventually stopped working and got put in a box never to be seen again. Just a couple days ago I finally gave in to nostalgia and got another one off ebay, and when it finally arrived... Well, it was like being reunited with an old friend I hadn't seen for a very long time. I got myself a huge pack of AA batteries and have been grinning like a damn fool for days now.

I remember someone taking this to school back in the day and playing this.

This is really a neat toy and yours looks amazing for its age! I have a Microvision with 4 games all in the original boxes, I'm still learning how to figure some of them out but it's still really cool.

"Magic Square" is my favorite Game of the Merlin. It is absolutely not complicated. "Magic Square" belongs to a family of Games, which goes from 3x3 Playfield to nxn Playfield. A good way to learn "Magic Square" is to built the pattern from the Goal reverse, so you can learn the pattern.

Thx for teaching the games, i lost the manual and learned through your video. Cheers from Brazil !

I used to have this. It was a lot of fun!

Happy New year ! And cool handheld both cool looking and some nice ideas. And finaly a new versus challenge 🎉 2021 start strong x)!

I just put batteries in my 1978 Merlin today for the first time in probably 30 plus years, it all works perfectly except the number one button LED.

What a cool little device. I had really never heard of this before!

What an amazing bit of kit for 1978! Thanks for showing this.

I had one. It was nagical. This invokes so many happy childhood memories for me

Wish I still had mine 😭😭😭 Loved that toy.

that is awesome! thanks for sharing

Yeah also showed it on the channel some time ago. Good old times when it comes to these machines 😄

The handheld game : 😁😁😎😎😎 Battery capacity : 💀💀💀💀💀

"Magic Square" (aka "Lights out") is my favourite one.

I had that love that I think I still have it somewhere. Merlin!

Happy new year mate!

I had one of these growing up. Got it from a garage sale and no instructions. I think around three of the games I figured out how to play and the others had no clue.

Super cool! Mijn vriendin wil er nu ook een, ze is helemaal hyped!

Ohhhh, Great! Let’s go for another VS-Challenge! 😃

Interesting device!

1 move must be always the centre one

That was really cool and I'm surprised

got one for xmas in grade 6

Still works 😃🖒

I still got mine😃no manual🙁dated 1979 I WON from Lucky Charms giveaway 😃

How much was Merlin back in 1978? Does anyone know?

i have one of the 2004 models by hasbro

Hasbro still hosts the instruction manual for this : www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Merlin.PDF