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Apple II
On 10 June 1977, Apple launched a new generation of home computers with the Apple II. It was supplied as an assembled product rather than a kit.
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Atari 2600
The Atari 2600, originally released as the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), was among the first consoles to use interchangeable cartridges containing …
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Atari Keyboard Controllers (CX50)
The keyboard controllers are an extension for the Atari 2600 Video Game System and are sold as a pair. They can be connected to the controller ports of the …
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Open pageAtari Kid's Controllers
The Kid's Controller is a variant of the Keyboard Controller, which is especially designed for smaller children with its large buttons. The seven games that …
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Bally Astrocade
"Astrocade" is only the most common name of this console. The device is announced in 1977 by the US manufacturer Bally as Bally Home Library Computer, and is …
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Color TV-Game Racing 112
Between 1977 and 1980, Nintendo released four different versions of the so-called "Color TV Game(s)", a successful first-generation console with built-in …
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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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Commodore PET 2001
At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1977, American company Commodore presented the Commodore PET 2001 (Personal Electronic Transactor), a computer with …
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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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Heathkit H8
Heathkit is known in the USA for electronics kits, from radios to measuring instruments. In July 1977, it announced the H8 kit computer, costing US$379 as a …
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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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Open pageMB Computer Logic 5
Computer Logic 5, usually called Comp IV. outside Germany, is based on the logic board game "Mastermind" (one of the most successful games of the 1970s), but …
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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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MCS ALPHA 1
The ALPHA 1 from the Berlin-based company MCS (Micronic Computer Systeme GmbH) is an unusual computer from 1977 -- which had the MOS Technology KIM-1 as its …
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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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North Star Horizon
The Horizon from North Star Computers reached the market in autumn 1977, priced at US$1,599 as a kit or $1,899 assembled. It uses the S-100 bus, then the …
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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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RCA Studio II
Studio II is technically much inferior to Channel F, which is already available at the start of the sale, and the Atari VCS, which is only a few months later.
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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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Rockwell AIM 65 (R6500 Microcomputer System)
The AIM 65 (also R6500 Advanced Interactive Microcomputer (=AIM)) is an American home computer from Rockwell and is based on the MOS 6502. At the same time, in …
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Tandy TRS-80 Model 1
The TRS-80 is one of the first home computers. The Z80 processor gives the computer its name: TRS-80 = Tandy Radio Shack - Z80. The American electronics …
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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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Open pageTelegames with Thomas Gottschalk
Telespiele was a German television show hosted by Thomas Gottschalk from 1977 to 1981. In the 1970s, “Telespiele” referred to computers connected to the home …
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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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VideoBrain 101A
Umtech introduced the VideoBrain Family Computer at the end of 1977 for 499.95 USD, but due to the low success the production ends already in March 1978. The …
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