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content/museum/mbo-tele-ball-vii.md

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+title: MBO Tele-Ball VII
+categories:
+- Pongs
+params:
+  name: Tele-Ball VII
+  company: /companies/mbo
+  company_name: MBO
+  tabs:
+  - photos
+  photos:
+  - title: INSIDE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: BOX
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: LIGHT GUN BOXED
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  oc_id: 692
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613152943/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=692
+    date: '2023-06-13'
+---
+
+MBO was a famous electronic german brand from Munich. This is a quite sober pong system... actually, not a very fun or nice looking one. At least, it is complete and offers the 6 games of the AY-3-8500 from General Instruments. The detachable controllers have a serve button. Each of them can be stored on the sides of the main unit.
+
+MBO produced a large serie of pong systems that they named "tele-ball" with numbers from 1 to 9 (or more ?). But there did not seem to be any real evolutivity as this model 2 for example, displays nearly the same features as the model 7 except for the 2 shooting games. Undoubtly it was just for marketing purposes. The chip included in the Tele-ball VII is dated from 1977 as the one included in the tele-ball II. So maybe they made different shapes at the same time just to propose "different products" and to sell more.
+
+An odd detail: whereas all the systems including a GI AY-3-8500 chip run with a 9 Volts voltage, this one is powered with only 6 Volts.