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Pong consoles
The collection includes Pong consoles from Atari and other manufacturers. The inventory lists models, technical details and quantities.
The tiles link to documentation pages. To see which objects are in the collection and in what quantities, see the inventory further down this page.
Magnavox Odyssey
In 1966, Ralph Baer - The father of the home consoles (1922–2014) had the idea of using television sets to play games. In 1969, the German-born inventor, who …
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Atari Pong
Following Pong’s huge success in arcades from 1972, Atari decided to develop a home console version. Three years later, it introduced its first home Pong …
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EPOCH ELECTROTENNIS
The ELECTROTENNIS is the first Japanese Pong console from the Japanese manufacturer Epoch. An antenna cable is not necessary, the console generates a reception …
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Interton Video 2400
The compact black Pong console Video 2400 from German manufacturer Interton is based on the General Instruments AY-3-8500. A special feature is an additional …
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Zanussi Ping-O-Tronic Model PP6
Zanussi is a well-known Italian manufacturer of household appliances, and brings a total of 2 consoles to the market. The one shown here is already equipped …
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Philips Odyssey 200
The Philips Odyssey 200 home Pong console belongs to the Magnavox Odyssey series, which appeared between 1972 and 1978. Marketed as “America’s interesting home …
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Commodore Colour TV Game (2000K, 3000H)
The Colour TV Game (Model 2000K) is a Pong console by Commodore.
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Conic TVG-201
The Hong Kong Pong console offers the four typical games based on the AY-3-8500. In addition to the Conic TVG-201 sold in a light case, the Conic TVG-201-4 …
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exclusive TVG-409/4/8
Pong console, with four games: tennis, hockey, squash, handball for one or two players.
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Heru Ellipses T. V. Games
Characterless pong console with the GI AY-3-8500 chip, i.e. with four games: tennis, soccer, squash, practice. Similar to other models of the TG-621 series …
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Honeybell Video Sports 55
Honeybell's Pong console is based on an AY-3-8500 chip and offers the usual four games of tennis, hockey, squash and practice. The console itself is kept white …
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Open pageIntel Super Telegame
The Super Telespiel is a German Pong console from Intel. Its four built-in games are implemented using the familiar AY-3-8500 chip. A large rotary switch in …
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LEM 2000 by Cabel Electronic
The LEM 2000 is an Italian game console designed by CABEL electronic. The company came from Curno (Bergamo), but is no longer present on the market. The …
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Magnavox Odyssey 3000
The Odyssey 3000 appeared in 1977 with a completely different design from the preceding Odyssey 2000. Both the 2000 and 3000 use the AY-3-8500 as their main …
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match spectrum 6 COLOR TEACHING PLAY
The spectrum 6 of match is a simple console with AY-3-8500 chip, which makes the games tennis, hockey and handball possible; the games can run one or two …
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MBO tele-ball II
The Pong console of MBO Schmidt & Niederleitner GmbH & Co. KG (companies from Munich and once market leader in calculators) is based on the AY-3-8500 …
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Mustang 9009 Video Game
The 9009 Video Game belongs to a series of Pong consoles sold in Germany in the late 1970s under the name Mustang, but also as Poppy and under other brands. It …
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Novex TV Sport
The Novex TV Sport is a pong console, about which little information can be found; probably it is one of the many consoles from Hong Kong that are sold in …
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Philips Odyssey 2001
In 1972, Magnavox introduced the Odyssey, the first video game console. Philips bought the American company in 1974 and released the Philips Odyssey 2001 in …
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Philips Tele Game ES 2208 Las Vegas Super Color
The Tele-Spiel ES 2208 Las Vegas belongs to the Tele-Spiel range released by Philips between 1975 and 1978. Compared with its ES 2203 and ES 2204 predecessors …
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Philips Tele game Travemünde ES 2207
Philips launched a series of tele games in the 1970s, carrying the abbreviation ES for "Electronic Games". Four of them form a family: Las Vegas ES 2203 (with …
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Radofin Tele Sports
With Tele Sports, Radofin from Hong Kong is building one of the early pong consoles based on the chip AY-3-8500 from General Instrument; according to the …
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Regina TV Game (T-338)
The Regina is identical to other consoles like the Hanimex T-338.
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TELE-MATCH Game Cassette
ITT Schaub-Lorenz, Graetz and Ingelen TV sets with "replaceable operating cassettes" came on the market in 1977 as a "concept with future security". (picture …
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Teleball Cassette II Color (teleball cassette system II)
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Tomy TV Fun Color Model 601
The TV Fun Color Model 601 is a Pong console produced by Tomy. There is a model in brown and white (today more cream color). Internally, an AY-3-8500 chip is …
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Open pageTV 18 Color (Unknown Manufacturer)
The TV 18 Color is a console from Hong Kong with games like squash, tennis, football, hockey, shooting. The manufacturer is unknown. The console has two analog …
Open pageTV game TEC-FS4
The TEC-FS4 is a pong system that came on the market under different names, such as when Alex TG-621 or MBO TG-621, and then was produced in different colors …
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Ultrasound TV-9010
The TV-9010 is a German pong console produced by Ultrasound in Hong Kong. It is a typical General Instruments AY-3-8500, with which you can play tennis …
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Unimex Mark III
The Mark III of Unimex is one of the many pong consoles of the late 1970s that build on the chip AY-3-8500 from General Instrument. The chip brings the games …
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Universe Color Multi Game 4006
German mail-order retailer Quelle sold many Pong consoles under its Universum brand. The Color Multi-Spiel 4006 is the colour successor to the Universum …
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Universe TV Multi game
The TV multi-game of Universum (technology division of Quelle) was produced by Italian manufacturer Zanussi under the brand name Sèleco. (Since 1984 Zanussi …
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Universe TV Multi Game 2006 and Electronic Light Gun
Universum is the electronics brand of the former Quelle mail-order business (later Arcandor). It offered many Pong consoles in the 1970s, including the …
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9015 Pong console (mustang/poppy)
The 9015 is a game console of a Hong Kong manufacturer, distributed in Germany from 1978 by Poppy, Unimex, Mustang, Sanwa and TV-10 (and then called Poppy …
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Open pageIntel TV Sport 4010
Successor of the model Intel TV Sport 3006 with 4 additional games. The console also comes on the market under the name Gamatic 7600.
Open pagematch COLOR JOY-STICK
match was a German manufacturer that released several consoles in 1977 and 1978. These included the JOY-STICK, with three games: football, squash and tennis …
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Palladium Tele Cassettes Game (825/530)
The Palladium Tele-Cassetten Game is a German pong console. The console itself does not offer games, but the electronics for the games sits in the modules that …
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Körting Tele-Multiplay 6000 with light gun
Körting Tele Multi Play console model 6000 Color from 1979. The console can be operated via batteries or power supply. The console offers the standard games …
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Tele-Multiplay 8000 (Tele-Multi-Play Color)
Game console from 1979 by Körting. 8 games (basketball solo, basketball double, gridball, football, tennis, hockey, squash, pelota) with 2 removable MATCH …
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Videomaster Star Chess
Star Chess is a telegame from the British company Videomaster, which differs from the other games of the time, because the console contains only one game …
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BSS 01
The BSS 01, short for Bildschirmspiel 01 (screen game 01), is a German TV game console from the former GDR.
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Palladium Tele-Match Color R
Under the brand name Palladium, Neckermann AG brings technology products to the market, such as the Tele-Match Color R 825/352, a German game console. The …
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Home video game 9012 of R10 or Sanwa
The 9012 is a game console produced in Hong Kong with the standard chip, the AY-3-8500. The console came on the market under various brand names, including R10 …
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Richin Telegame
Pong console with 4 games tennis, football, squash, hockey.
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SHG black point
In the 1980s, the Munich-based company SHG (Süddeutsche Elektro-Hausgeräte GmbH & Co. KG) the ping-pong console black point. (In the operating instructions …
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Microelectronics advanced rapidly during the 1970s, and television sets became affordable for ordinary households. In 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey, developed by Ralph Baer – the father of home consoles, became the first game console on sale that could be connected to a home television. Thomas Gottschalk introduced the consoles to a wide audience in late 1977 on the television programme “Telespiele”.
The first generation of game consoles offers only a fixed set of games, as these devices have no CPU in the usual sense. The games are implemented using simple electronic circuits. Later, General Instrument developed the AY-3-8500 chip, which was used in thousands of consoles. Pong was among the most popular games, which is why these first-generation systems are commonly called Pong consoles.
The era of these dedicated consoles ended in the early 1980s, when consoles with 8-bit CPUs and interchangeable cartridges reached the market.
Pong console inventory
| Manufacturer | Product | Processor | Year | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | Alex TG-621 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| APF Electronics Inc. | Match | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Blaupunkt | tv-action | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Coleco | Telstar Europa Sportsman | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Coleco | Telstar Arcade (cartridges 2x1, 2x2, 3, 2x4) | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Conic | TVG-201 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| exclusiv | TVG-409-4/8 | AY-3-8500 | 1977? | 1 |
| FUJI ELECTRIC | Sportstron TV-Game (Coca-Cola Edition) | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Hanimex | Hanimex SD-050C [games PC-501, 504] | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Heru Ellipses | T.V. Games | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Intel | Super Telespiel | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Intel | TV Sport 4010 | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Interton Electronic | Video 2000 [CMOS chips and 5 cartridges] | 1975 | 1 | |
| Interton Electronic | Video 2400 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Interton Electronic | Video 3000 | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt | BSS 01 | AY-3-8500 | 1980-1984 | 1 |
| Körting | Körting Tele Multiplay (825/042) | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Magnavox/Philips | Odyssey 2000 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Magnavox/Philips | Odyssey 3000 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Magnavox/Philips | Odyssey 4000 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| match | spectrum 6 COLOR-FERNSEHSPIEL | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| MBO | tele-ball II | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| MBO | tele-ball VII | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Mustang | 9009 Video Game | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Mustang | 9015 Pong console | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Philips | Tele-Spiel ES 2207 Travemünde | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Philips | Tele-Spiel ES 2208 Las Vegas Super Color with camera | AY-3-8550 | 1977 | 1 |
| Radofin | Tele Sports | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| R10 | Heim-Video-Spiel 9012 by R10 or Sanwa | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Regina | TV Game | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Santron | Home TV Video Game, Model TG-101 (Home TV Game Electronic System) | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Sanwa | Heim-Video-Spiel 9012 by R10 or Sanwa (Color | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 2× |
| Sanwa | Sanwa 9015 | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Tandy | TV Scoreboard | AY-3-8500 | 1976-1981 | 1 |
| TEC | Fernsehspiel TEC-FS4 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Tomy | TV Fun Color Model 601 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Unimex | Mark III | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Universum | TV-Spiel 1004 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Universum | Color Multi-Spiel 4004 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Universum | Color Multi-Spiel 4006 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Universum | TV Multi-Spiel | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 2× |
| Universum | TV-Multi-Spiel 2006 and electronic light gun | AY-3-8500 | 1978 | 1 |
| Ultrasound | TV-9010 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Video Sports | Honeybell 55 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Video Sports | Skylark-124 | AY-3-8500 | 1977 | 1 |
| Philips | Tele-Spiel ES 2218 Las Vegas | AY-3-8600 | 1977 | 1 |
| Körting | Tele-Multiplay 8000 (Tele-Multi-Play Color) | AY-3-8600 | 1978 | 1 |
| Cabel Electronic | LEM 2000 | AY-3-8610 | 1977 | 1 |
| Universum | Color Multispiel 4010 | AY-3-8610 | 1977 | 1 |
| Universum | TV Color-Multispiel 4014 | AY-3-8610 | 1977 | 1 |
| Atari | Pong Model C-100 | CPU3659-1c | 1976 | 1 |
| Atari | Atari Super Pong Pro-Am Ten (Model C-202) | C010073-03 | 1977 | 1 |
| Commodore | Colour TV Game 2000K | MOS 7600 (NTSC), MOS 7601 (PAL) | 1977 | 1 |
| Epoch | TV Block | C011500-1/C011512-05 | 1979 | 1 |
| Epoch | ELECTROTENNIS | 1975 | 1 | |
| Intel | Fernsehspiel TV Supersport 1006 | 1977 | 1 | |
| ITT Schaub-Lorenz/Graetz/Ingelen | TELE-MATCH Spiele-Cassette | f8cpu.8colors 64bit RAM 8bit | 1978 | 1 |
| Körting | Tele-Multiplay 6000 with light gun | TMS-1965 | 1977 | 1 |
| Nintendo | Nintendo Color TV Game Racing 112 (Info) | CPU m58816p | 1978 | 1 |
| Nintendo | Color TV Block Kuzushi (CTG-BK6) | 1979 | 1 | |
| Magnavox/Philips | Magnavox Odyssey | Diode–transistor logic | 1972 | 1 |
| Magnavox/Philips | Odyssey 200 | Chip by Texas Instruments | 1975 | 1 |
| Magnavox/Philips | Odyssey 2001 | National Semiconductor MM-57105-N | 1977 | 1 |
| match | JOY-STICK | 1 | ||
| MBO | Teleball-Cassette-II Color | 1977 | 1 | |
| Novex | TV Sport | 1977 | 1 | |
| Palladium | Tele-Cassetten-Game | 1977 | 1 | |
| Palladium | Tele-Match 825/484 | 1977 | 1 | |
| Palladium | Tele-Match Color R | 1977 | 1 | |
| Poppy | 9015 Pong console | CPU pc-50x | 1978 | 1 |
| Reel | GIOCHI TV | 1978 | 2× | |
| Richin | Richin Telespiel | 1977 | 1 | |
| SHG | black point | 1982 | 1 | |
| SHG | black point (Type FS 2000) | CPU pc-50x | 1978 | 1 |
| Sipo | TV Spiel Color SD-050 | CPU pc-50x | 1978 | 1 |
| Sonesta | Hide Away TV Game | CPU tms-1965 | 1977 | 1 |
| Sportel | Sportel | 1977 | 1 | |
| Videomaster | Star Chess | ULA Ferranti ZNA 2HO72E | 1979 | 1 |
| Zanussi/Sèleco | Zanussi Ping-O-Tronic Model PP6 | 74xx components | 1974 - 1983 | 1 |
| (Distributed by HGS ELECTRONIC) | Programmable Game [Hanimex SD-070 Color Clone] | 1978 | 1 | |
| (unknown) | TV 18 Color (unknown manufacturer) | 1977 | 1 | |
| (unknown) | Unbranded console with Tennis, Hockey, Squash, Practise, Shooting-1/-2 | 1 |
Total: 85