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comments:
- author: Yves Kien (France)
date: Thursday 24th March 2011
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I was an Alcatel technician in charge of this design in 1973!!!!The product was designed by Alcatel and sold by Pizon Bros. We produced approximately 10000 of this type. You can remark that it is possible to play alone against a "robot" (this is a plus i added).
The chipset is an hybrid circuit designed for that product. I still own one. After this i designed another type with colors (green for the tennis and red for soccer). This application was developped to start a new hybrid circuit prduction line in alcatel factory in Arcueil. This game is working on old TV set through the antenna UHF.
- author: Sly DC (Canada)
date: Thursday 15th July 2021
text: The color version as described by Yves Kien was called the Colormatic 211 ans was going to be sold in 1978 but got cancelled. The story Yves is telling is true except for the year (not 1973...must be a typo). The "Robot" is in fact a small circuit add-on and not implanted in the GI chip. I still don''t know why that is has the "AY-5-8500-G" inscription instead of the usual "AY-3-8500" found in many European consoles.
- author: Loup Solitaire
date: Monday 12th April 2010
text: I got this one from a cousin, I never was able to play with it (old antenna system), I checked ebay and found out it had no value (25$) so I gave it.
- author: j4ck (us)
date: Wednesday 30th March 2005
text: that's a cool looking system. like something a 1970's French kid would play James Bond or Mission Impossible with
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613001132/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=716