Milton Bradley Playmate - Game Compatibility

Game Compatibility

The Playmate would have been compatible with roughly 20 of Milton Bradley's board and card games. Punchcard packs for each game would have needed to be purchased, and would have come with instructions regarding how to set up the board game precisely beneath the Playmate's claw arm.

The punchcard packs would have contained several pre-programmed movesets for the playmate, allowing the player to play a variety of games against the Playmate, and would have allowed the Playmate to simulate a variety of different skill levels to grant the player varying levels of challenge. Being pre-programmed, it would have been possible to eventually memorize the exact moves of the Playmate for each card, but the number of cards featured per pack (estimated to be at least one hundred) would have dissuaded this behavior, as would the release of follow-up card packs.