Specimen: a Lazer Tag target, circa 1987, manufactured by Worlds of Wonder, an early commercial WBL if ever there was one.
I’m doing a bit of dejunking and shedding, but wanted to give a moment’s silence for this one. LEDs and speaker and a tiny cpu, delicious. The LEDs would blink back and forth, a little faster each time you hit the target with the IR gun, until it blipped out, dead. Five or six hits, I think.
Some parts I see: LM567, the internets say it’s a tone decoder, probably for IR sensing. The two big black rectangles in the middle are the IR sensors. And I’m guessing the CPU is the TI MP1826N2; no idea what it is.
Me, I’m gutting it for the cool red dome and small speaker.
(From Wikipedia, WoW founder Don Kingsborough with gun and target)