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+title: TV Hockey (4 players)
+tags:
+- ball and paddle
+- hockey
+- sport
+years:
+- '1973'
+params:
+  specs:
+  - label: year of release
+    value: '1973'
+  - label: companies
+    value: Amutronics
+  - label: type
+    value: game
+  - label: media
+    value: arcade cabinet
+  - label: systems
+    value: Arcade
+  - label: number of players
+    value: 2 - 4 players (versus)
+  screenshots:
+  - title: Screenshot
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: MOA exhibition nov.1973
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Arcade cabinet
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  machines:
+  - /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
+  company: /companies/misc
+  oc_id: 1852
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603013747/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=1852
+    date: '2023-06-03'
+---
+
+TV Hockey from Amutronics is an early arcade videogame from 1973, largely inspired by Pond Doubles from Atari released the same year.
+
+It's a "ball and paddle" game for 2 or 4 players. Each player control his paddle with a dedicated knob. In two players mode, each player control two paddles at the same time (to be confirmed).
+
+The gameplay mimics a game of Hockey, though it could be also played as a soccer game, as it's often the case whith these early paddle games.
+
+The differences with Pong Doubles are:\
+\- The boundaries of the playfield are displayed as white borders (none in Atari's game)\
+\- There is a serve button to launch the ball after each points (automatic in Pong Doubles)\
+\- The goals are particularly well represented, a nice graphical touch for 1973 !
+
+There was also a two players version of TV Hockey from Amutronics released earlier the same year (1973), but it's a different game, very similar to Hockey TV from Sega, where mid-fields paddles move automaticaly during the game...