Ichida - Answer Game Machine

This Robot does not walk, does not shoot with hidden guns, does not play a spacemovies so what does it basicly do then ? The answer lies in the Game, this robot can do calculations, it can add and substract and that is pretty unbelievable because it all happends fully mechanical with gears, gears.... LOTS of gears inside this rare robot.

Build In Japan by Ichida in the mid 1960`s this robot takes 3 big battaries but does not use them to walk or shoot, he uses them to calculate.  There are 4 handles for Reset, add and substract, Calculate and reset and 10 more buttons from 1 - 10. The eyes function to show if the PLUS or MINUS is in use by lighting up and the "brains " in his head slowely rotate while the robot is in " Thinking Mode "

There is an original instructionsheet that says:

1. Insert 3 flashlight type battaries
2. Addition: to add operator pushes lever to left ( plus sign )
    Press the desired numbers on key board
3. Substraction: to substract push lever to right ( minus sign )
    Press the desired numbers on key board
4. Total: To obtain automatic total pull down lever marked T
5. Clear: At the end of the game pull down lever Marked C To
    clear the machine.
6. The machine is now ready for the next game.

Well thats about it :) a wonderfull robot that finally does something else than walking and shooting and the design is also really great. You can see they put a lot of efford in the design of this robot to make it attractive to children.

The condition of this Ichida Answering Game Machine is really excellent and I doubt if you will ever find a better example in 100% working order. All the litho is bright and clear, no dings, no rust and VERY minor scratches from playing ( the robot has been played very gently with and was taken very well care of )
The batterycompartment is clean and never housed a leaking battary for sure !.  The chrome parts are bright and shiny also, in total an excellent to near mint example of this awesome robot.

This robot also comes with the original instructionsheet, and even the original pensils are present. Also the original box is present with some of the original inserts but as you can see in the pictures, the box is in poor condition and is missing a piece from one of the sideflaps. Still the box is original and adds a nice view to the robot.

Very hard to robot to find in this excellent to near mint condition that is also in perfect working and calculating order !!

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