As a vintage gamer and collector, I scored one of these several years ago. Works fine as is other than typical scratchy pot in the paddle. Great Atari collectible. Obviously Atari as stated on the bottom of the unit and the built on 2600 paddle. Haven't opened mine up yet either
Certainly a cool device. I don't recall this one at all. We had the Sear Tele-Games unit with the lightgun and all the pong games. The color on this is nice!
Seeing that game and today,so simple I cant beleive I once played it at our local pool hall in town back in the 70s and fed $100s maybe $1000 in quarters to play.
I don't think this is an Atari product. Its more likely to be based on of general instruments family of mono and color game ICs. The AY-3-8500 "Ball & Paddle" integrated circuit was the first in a series of ICs from General Instrument designed for the consumer video game market. These chips were designed to output video to an RF modulator, which would then display the game on a domestic television set. The AY-3-8500 contained six selectable games - tennis (a.k.a. Pong), hockey (or soccer), squash, practice, and two shooting games. The AY-3-8500 was the 625-line PAL version and the AY-3-8500-1 was the 525-line NTSC version. It was introduced in 1976, Coleco becoming the first customer having been introduced to the IC development by Ralph H. Baer.[1] A minimum number of external components were needed to build a complete system. The AY-3-8500 was the first version. It played seven Pong variations. The video was in black-and-white, although it was possible to colorize the game by using an additional chip, such as the AY-3-8515.
3:53 That's no Atari 2600. It's running off a single custom 40 pin Atari chip, maybe a re-badged 6501. Pity you didn't open it. Next time when you have something rare to show please open it up fully and we can all learn something.
As a vintage gamer and collector, I scored one of these several years ago.
Works fine as is other than typical scratchy pot in the paddle.
Great Atari collectible.
Obviously Atari as stated on the bottom of the unit and the built on 2600 paddle.
Haven't opened mine up yet either
I started video gaming on an Atari 2600, I think I was 4 years old lol good times, thanks for sharing
Certainly a cool device. I don't recall this one at all. We had the Sear Tele-Games unit with the lightgun and all the pong games. The color on this is nice!
Seeing that game and today,so simple I cant beleive I once played it at our local pool hall in town back in the 70s and fed $100s maybe $1000 in quarters to play.
Amazing that a 50 year old electronic device still works.
Im an almost 53 year old device and i still work lol but i think i need a cap kit😆
And yet a device nowadays is lucky to survive 3 years.
Wow, cool old game machine !! Where did you get this ?
I don't think this is an Atari product. Its more likely to be based on of general instruments family of mono and color game ICs.
The AY-3-8500 "Ball & Paddle" integrated circuit was the first in a series of ICs from General Instrument designed for the consumer video game market. These chips were designed to output video to an RF modulator, which would then display the game on a domestic television set. The AY-3-8500 contained six selectable games - tennis (a.k.a. Pong), hockey (or soccer), squash, practice, and two shooting games. The AY-3-8500 was the 625-line PAL version and the AY-3-8500-1 was the 525-line NTSC version. It was introduced in 1976, Coleco becoming the first customer having been introduced to the IC development by Ralph H. Baer.[1] A minimum number of external components were needed to build a complete system.
The AY-3-8500 was the first version. It played seven Pong variations. The video was in black-and-white, although it was possible to colorize the game by using an additional chip, such as the AY-3-8515.
This is developed and manufactured by Atari, using their own Pong-on-a-chip Design. They released it under their own name as Video Pinball.
@@lascheque It's a shame you didn't pop the RF shield off the chipset so we could see.
@@G7VFY How could I have opened it, I don't own one. Look it up online, there are pictures out there, people have opened it up.
3:53 That's no Atari 2600. It's running off a single custom 40 pin Atari chip, maybe a re-badged 6501. Pity you didn't open it. Next time when you have something rare to show please open it up fully and we can all learn something.