1982
Good Play
ELEKTRONIK ORGEL
Oh no, i cannot stand it... this is cheap & ugly. Even the children on the box are ugly...

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1982
Playskool
PHILIP PHONE
Funny little thing which creates weird musical noises when you move your fingers very fast and wild.

SOUND: 8 DESIGN: 4 COOLNESS: 7
1982
Smoby
ORGUE ELECTRONIQUE
Big Rabbit is watching you!

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 8 COOLNESS: 4
1982
Casio
M-10
This ultra-compact keyboard is built like a tank - incredible great plastic-quality. The keys are absolutely professional and great to play. This was not intended to be a toy.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1982
Emenee
COMPUTER PLAY ORGAN
Exceptional Design. Crazy sound with heavy tremolo. Future and Past in perfect harmony!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1982
Good Play
ELEKTRONIK ORGEL
Lovely machine with poor sound! Just another Hongkong-Machine!

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 7
1982
Mattel
SYNSONICS DRUMS STEREO PRO
Has four lo-fi drum sounds that can be combined in many different pattern or played with drumsticks. This is the version with built-in loudspeakers so they called this Stereo-Pro!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1982
A-One
ELEKSOUND SUPER
Extraordinary Piano-Design with huge ammount of plastic.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1982
GCE
VECTREX MELODY MASTER
Not really a Miniorgan, but a fantastic programmable musical system. The Vectrex is one of the most famous retrogame machines nowadays. With a special software called Melody Master and a Light Pen you can create your own Drum & Music Sequences on screen. It looks like a Fairlight but sounds like a C-64. Anyway, it is fun to see the musical notes jumping and running on the sreen.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1981
Casio
VL-10
Aaaaaah, the VL-10. This is what made CASIO the best company in the 80ies world. smooth design and State-of-the-Art technology. Has only 3 very similar sounds (one sound with different envelopes) but a 100-step sequencer and the classical VL-1 rhythms (but they sound very thin). It also features 2 loudspeakers at front and back - one for the melody, one for the rhythm. Nothing but great. One of my favourites. And incredible rare, I can tell you... it took me 3 years to find one boxed!

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1981
Peter Pan
MUSICAL STORYBOOK
This is the easier-to-handle version of the Sketch-A-Tune. Your finger walks over a "Magic Touch Keyboard" which is a 64 key matrix. The sheets are specially drawn images - they show how to move the finger over the matrix. Play it wild and you get strange patterns.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1981
Realistic
RHYTHM BOX
This huge loudspeaker kills. This is absolutely the most kicking toy-drum-machine I have ever heard. It breaks walls and makes children cry. Boooom Boooom.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 6 COOLNESS: 10
1981
Bontempi
MEMOPLAY 24
Well, i only have to say "Bontempi" and you should know, how it sounds...

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 5 COOLNESS: 5
1980
Concept 2000
LITE 'N LEARN
This was my only keyboard I had as a child. It took me 20 and 2 years to find this cheap trash again. I never thought that I would see this one again, because this is so cheap & undesireable. The very first organ with LED lights. My most beloved organ, because of the great Christmas memories from 1980.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 7 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Casio
VL-1
Holy Miniorgan. This is maybe the most popular toy keyboard ever! Unbelievable design and sound. How many people really understood the so-called ADSR function? There also exists an incredibly rare red version, released in France by LIWACO.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Unknown
SUPER CHARLIE
A nice Stylophone sequel with Soft-Touch keyboard, a range of 4 octaves and 6 colour variations!

SOUND: 7 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Play Well
ELECTRONIC ORGAN
If you ever noticed the design of the BONTEMPI Memoplay 26, you'll see that this machine is to 95% similar. But it is much smaller, which surprised me very much. A mini-version of a mini-organ.

SOUND: 3 DESIGN: 3 COOLNESS: 4
1980
Fundimensions
SOUND GIZMO
Makes some nice noises but is very limited in its possibilities. The REMCO Sound FX Machine can do much better noises. Fortunately it looks very cool and has a lot of space-attitude.

SOUND: 6 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Good Play
ELEKTRONISCHE ORGEL
Hahaha! Special Thanks to Christian from Germany!

SOUND: 1 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Allied
MICOM ORGAN
One of the best shaped organs, i have ever seen. And this thing is incredible small. But the sound is not worth to mention - best thing is the so called rhythm section which is a simple triggered sine sound.

SOUND: 4 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Concept 2000
THE COUNT'S MUSIC MACHINE
Ha, this organ has nice details and is truely made for very young children. I think you cannot play anythning but scary tunes with it!

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Electroplay
SOUND FX PHASOR
It looks like a Phaser, but it is a Phasor - and a fully programmable Synthesizer. It offers 6 parameters - each with a value of 0-255. The manual don't tell you what these parameters exactly are, but you can make damn digital noises and sounds and play them on the keyboard which has 10 notes. In a way this is between CASIO VL-1 ADSR function and REMCO Sound FX Machine. A true Masterpiece of early Sound Toys.

SOUND: 10 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Kingsford
MINI MATCH ME
A game and an organ. Great to play, because of the wonderful manufactured keys.

SOUND: 6 DESIGN: 10 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Masudaya
MICON POPO
Oh, this is difficult to play, because the train really drives. So you have to follow the train, while pressing the keys! Damn hard.

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 4 COOLNESS: 10
1980
Popy
CANDY CANDY
Huge & cute - designed for happy families! Thanks to Morgan Fisher for getting me this!

SOUND: 5 DESIGN: 8 COOLNESS: 10