Being a toy robot made by TOMY and distributed by Radio Shack in the United States since 1984, the Armatron consists of a crane-like arm which picks up small objects by the user manipulating two attached joysticks and its shape resembles industrial robots of the 1980s, though it is strictly user-controlled, with no automation built in. Blip (stylized as Blip. THE DIGITAL GAME), being a tabletop electro-mechanical game marketed by Tomy starting in 1977 in the United States, the system can play a two-player game that is very similar to Atari's video game Pong, and a single-player game.