Retsy Series 1 · Card 0250 · 80-TEC
The future fits in your jacket.
A handheld TV with a two-inch screen that showed mostly static, plus the occasional shimmering outline of a game show.
The story · 1984
The Snowstorm looked like the future. In practice, it showed fuzzy gray snowstorms unless you stood by a window, raised the antenna and held perfectly still. Dads brought it to ballgames and squinted at the tiny screen while the real game happened right in front of them. It ate four batteries per inning.
Holding it upside down did not improve the picture, but everyone tried it at least once anyway.
Six finishes
Snowstorm Pocket Television comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-TEC
Snowstorm Pocket Television is one of 32 cards in the 80s Tech & Gadgets set. Here are the other 31.
