---
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...