If you were a child of the '80's then....

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The Pocket Rockers Homepage

Pocket Rockers were an endless tape format player by Fisher Price. It was an innovative product based on the old familiar 8-Tracks of the 1970's. Just about all the music you heard on the radio up until a few years ago was played on similar technology: A one track cart. Many radio stations even in the 21st century still use "cart" technology especially for commercials and news.

Pocket Rockers may be called 2 track carts because there were two songs employed on the same tape. A switch on the side of the Pocket Rocker reverses the tape to play the other song. Where can you buy pocket rockers? Toys R Us had them in the late '80's and they hit the clearance bin in 1992. Ebay is the place of choice. Expect to pay about $10-$20 for a player and $1 to $5 for a tape. Have patience. I've been watching Ebay auctions for these things for years and there is almost always a Pocket Rocker for sale every one or two weeks. These things were made for abuse so they seem to have held up quite well so far. I have only found a player and tape ONCE in "the wild" not on ebay in the last 15 years.

Update for 2009... I just found out that Geocities will be no more by the end of 2009. I haven't updated this site much for five years, but consistently a couple hundred people visit this site each month. Just shows that there are lots of fans out there for Pocket Rockers! Thank you for the e-mails and letting me know what tapes are missing. It's been a fun nine years running this site. I will move the site to something more 21st century sometime this summer.

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