@Museek
I worked for the guy that made that for Coleco! Eric Bromley. He was a VP during the Cabbige Patch craze. Nice guy.
@Museek
All my friends did!
He once described how he demoed it for a big retailer when it was a prototype. They didn't have the chip made, so there was a cable coming out of it the size of a firehose to a big computer.
People would have parties around that toy. They would wear out the buttons and would ask to just replace the buttons because they were convinced their device was different than the others.