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title: Binatone Colour TV Game (model n° 01 / 4931)
categories:
- Pongs
params:
  name: Colour TV Game (model n° 01 / 4931)
  image: /media/museum/photos/binatone_colour-tv-game.jpg
  company: /companies/binatone
  company_name: Binatone
  tabs:
  - photos
  photos:
  - title: CONTROL PANEL
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/binatone_colour-tv-game_pc.jpg
  - title: BOX
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/binatone_4931_box.jpg
  comments:
  - author: Elizabeth (Scotland)
    date: Saturday 27th November 2010
    text: I''ve still got mine lol...
  - author: William (Australia)
    date: Tuesday 28th September 2004
    text: |-
      I use to have this machine,oh yeah my friends and me use to really want to play it so bad one day the end of the power cord was missing and me at 10 years old.decided to put the cord straight into the power point..lol yeah and BANG!

      This machine was really something..
  oc_id: 1034
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230614010954/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1034
    date: '2023-06-14'
---

This pong is one of the many Binatone systems. It is the first of the "Colour TV game" serie and offers 4 pong games (squash, squash practise, football, tennis).

In order to understand how this system fits into the Binatone pong range, here is simplified list of the systems :

TV Master MK IV\
TV Master 4 plus 2\
TV Master MK 6\
TV Master MK 8\
TV Master MK 10

Colour TV Game\
Colour TV Game 4 plus 2\
Colour TV Game MK 6\
Colour TV Game MK 10

The TV master serie are black & white pongs (first generation). The **Colour TV Game** system is the same as the **TV Master MK IV** except that the games are in colour.

So how to differentiate a **Colour TV Game** from a **TV Master MK IV** ? Well first, the name... ;-) The underside and switches of the former are grey while those of the TV Master are orange. The Colour TV Game has also a small 'colour' logo next to its name (upper right).

The paddles are rather small, with one knob each, but are detachable and connected to the system through two small sockets. One interesting feature is that there is a switch to turn sound on / off (great !).