![]() Knowing very well that not a soul (not even St. ![]() It wasn’t quite the bargain of seven dollars that I once witnessed it selling for only a year after they initially came out in North America (the bargain bin sure took the shine off that apple!), but it was much cheaper than other versions I’d seen in recent years. While Christmas shopping this past November, I stumbled across a Barcode Battler at a reasonable price on eBay. Diablo (not the video game)? (sigh) The struggle was real. Anybody remember Devil Sticks? Probably not. We never did have the fortune of getting one, but found other ways with which to try to be trendy among our friends. We wanted to be on the cutting edge, and the Barcode Battler seemed like it could do the trick. Sure, we had a few personal computers in the house I have fond memories of, but this was years before they were deemed to be cool. Around the time it debuted in North America, my household was seriously lagging behind in the video game department. Nobody I know besides my twin brother can seem to remember it. The Barcode Battler seems like one of those things I crafted in a dream. A game could be anything really, be it video, board, card, dice, or… whatever this 90s relic classifies as. I didn’t realize it when I thought it up, but I actually left the title somewhat open-ended. Before now, I’ve been using my Music Meets Gaming series to cover music-related video games.
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