Casio keyboard-controlled table hockey

Over at BB Gadgets, John spotted this "Hockey Organ" in which a hacked vintage Casio keyboard controls the action on a table hockey game. Graeme Patterson was the maker. Hockey Organ (Matrixsynth, via BB Gadgets) photos of the Hockey Organ (GraemePatterson.com)

• [Hugh]

  can you tell which one is rosie?

• [rband]

  I wish this was posted in ART instead of Gadgets. Graeme is an amazing artist. Check out his website
  http://www.graemepatterson.com/

• [proto]

  Love the ‘JumboTron’!

• [Ugly Canuck]

  Now this…ah-ha…this is a work of ART!
  Ho-ho-ho….

• [permafrost]

  That thing scares me. Don’t know why… it just scares me.

• [theatgrex]

  A beautiful homage to one of the greatest movies ever made.

• [TheFishmonger]

  “Beauty, eh? Hey, that song’s making them fight, eh? Do it again.”

  God, I love Shakespeare

• [pepsi_max2k]

  :oO wow i sold a hokey game just like that on ebay a few months ago. great game it was too :o) not as good as organ version though :o(

• [cubby96]

  Why don’t the comments from the BB Gadgets post also show up here?

  • [Antinous]

    Different databases. It’s quite confusing if you comment in one thread and then check the other thread and can’t find your comment.

• [Moon]

  This is an artsy-fartsy thing rather than a game thing, right? If it was a game thing, you would need TWO keyboards.

  I’m thinking a bunch of guys in black turtlenecks saw some dudes playing table hockey and said “Ooh, we can do something artsy with that”

  /I could be wrong, though.

• [Gev]

  I’m glad to see I’m not the only person who immediately thought of the movie Strange Brew after reading about this.

• [spinach]

  This is the greatest thing I, a humble hoser, have ever seen. Now, I better get back to frying up the back bacon before the old lady tells me to take off.

• [Mazoola]

  Here‘s a nice article on the art-meets-hockey show where this was displayed.

• [Gary61]

  Where are all the bloodthirsty drunk fans in da stands?

• [OM]

  …Now, if someone could figure out the same mashup for one of those vibrating football games!

  Still, beauty, eh? :-)