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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APF M1000
The M1000 is the first console that can be expanded into a home computer. Its Imagination Machine expansion is considerably larger than the console itself. It …
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Atari Paddle Controllers (CX30)
Paddle controllers are analog potentiometers that allow an object to move over the screen at a chosen speed. They are technically identical with the …
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Atari Touch Me
Atari’s arcade game Touch Me appeared in 1974. Players press four buttons in a specified sequence, which grows by one button after each successful round. Three …
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Electronic Touchdown
Electronic Touchdown by Sears Electronic Games is a licensed version of Colecos Electronic Quarterback. The handheld simulates an American football game …
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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.
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Interton VC 4000
The VC 4000 (VC for Video Computer) is a popular game console from Germany. First experience is gained by Interton with Pong consoles, such as the typical Pong …
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Master Merlin
Master Merlin is one of the first handheld computer games. The game is very successful at the time and sells over five million copies in the USA alone.
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match 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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Mattel Basketball
The display of the Mattel Basketball Handheld shows a basketball field and small LED lights that represent the players on the field. You must get past the …
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Mattel Sub Chase
In Sub Chase, the player commands a destroyer and must sink a submarine. A bright LED represents the destroyer on the round playing field. The submarine is …
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MBO Pocket Computer 2000
Calculator with 4 languages translation modules
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Open pageMustang 9016 Telegame Computer
The Mustang 9016 is a clone of RCA Studio II. Such technologically identical variants are available from the unknown systems of the second generation. Some are …
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Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P
Ohio Scientific (OSI) was founded in Hiram, Ohio, in 1975 by Mike and Charity Cheiky and Dale A. Dreisbach. It began building 6502-based Challenger computers …
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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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Philips Videopac G7000
Magnavox, the odyssey manufacturer, is purchased by Philips in 1974. Therefore, the Odyssey 2, the successor model of the legendary first home console, is sold …
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Philips Videopac G7200
The Philips Videopac G7200 is a technically identical variant of the G7000 and fully compatible with its software. It differs from the G7000 in the additional …
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Science of Cambridge MK14
In 1961, Clive Sinclair founded his first company in Cambridge, UK: Sinclair Radionics Ltd. He produces hifi devices, radios and calculators. He renamed the …
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Sharp Mz-80
MZ-80 stands for a number of home computers with Z80 processor from Sharp. The line starts in 1978 with the MZ-80K (1978), and forms the basis for the MZ-80B …
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Super Play Computer 4000
The Super Play Computer 4000 is the most well-known of several compatible versions of the Interton VC4000. It is identical to the VC4000, apart from the color …
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Texas Instruments TM 990/189
The TM 990/189 is a Texas Instruments 8-bit microcomputer. Built from 1978 to about 1981, the circuit board computer found its place in the training, was …
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Open pageWaddingtons 2001 The Game Machine
The Game Machine from the British company Waddingtons House of Games, is a handheld who acts as a calculator but also offers four fixed games for playing. The …
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