What was the name of this toy?

I think I remember those. They were mostly little ball-bearing maze/pinball games, right?

I think so, yes.

Aha!:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/81223289_af6fbce3d5.jpg

This was the one I had:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15284/scavengers-gold

Flipsiders! Yeah, I remember those too, though I never owned one myself. Seems like a pretty crappy concept in retrospect - the cassette cover has nothing to do with the game itself. Were cassettes really considered so cool in the 80s?

I think it's more that personal stereos were considered cool.

That's kind of why I thought it was interesting to remember. Only in the 80s would people have thought that cassettes are so awesome that you can sell a board game that has nothing to do with music by packaging it like a tape. You even had to spin the tape heads to roll numbers.

(I mean, when I was 8-9 and was presumably the target market for this, a new tape was the most exciting thing ever.)

I don't remember those directly, but I feel like part of me does, or why else did I get super little-kid-style stoked when I saw that photo?