---
title: Blaupunkt TV-Action
categories:
- Pongs
origins:
- Germany
years:
- '1977'
cpus:
- AY-3-8500 from General Instruments
params:
  name: TV-Action
  image: /media/museum/photos/blaupunkt_tv-action_1s.jpg
  company: /companies/blaupunkt
  company_name: Blaupunkt
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: TV-Action
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Blaupunkt
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Germany
  - label: YEAR
    value: ? 1977
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: 4 (Tele-Tennis, Tele-Pelota, Tele-Hockey, Tele-Squash)
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: Built-in sliders
  - label: CPU
    value: AY-3-8500 from General Instruments
  - label: SPEED
    value: Start
  - label: CO-PROCESSOR
    value: Ball angle, Ball Speed, Paddle Size
  - label: RAM
    value: On screen
  - label: COLORS
    value: Black & white
  - label: SOUND
    value: Unknown
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: Unknown
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: Unknown
  - label: OS
    value: 'No'
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Unknown (from TV?)
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: 'No'
  - label: PRICE
    value: Unknown
  tabs:
  - photos
  - emulators
  - links
  photos:
  - title: TV-ACTION
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/blaupunkt_tv-action_1.jpg
  - title: BOX
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/blaupunkt_tv-action_box.jpg
  emulators:
  - title: www.pong-story.com
    url: http://www.pong-story.com/pcpong.htm
    platform: Multiplatform
    text: Several pong emulators (simulators) presented here
  links:
  - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
    url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
    text: ''
  related:
  - /museum/a10-telespiel-9010
  - /museum/alex-video-spiel-tg-621
  - /museum/apf-match
  - /museum/apf-tv-fun-model-401
  - /museum/audiosonic-pp-800
  - /museum/bentley-compu-vision
  - /museum/coleco-telstar-alpha-model-6030
  - /museum/conic-tv-sports-tg-621
  - /museum/conic-tvg-209
  - /museum/dms-telesports-mini
  - /museum/grandstand-t-v-game-model-3000
  - /museum/hanimex-666
  - /museum/hanimex-7771
  - /museum/hanimex-t-338
  - /museum/intel-germany-super-tele-sport-d-688-36
  - /museum/interton-video-2400
  - /museum/jostykit-multi-tv-game-hf-344
  - /museum/magiclick-teleclick
  - /museum/match-sd-01c
  - /museum/mbo-tele-ball
  - /museum/mbo-tele-ball-ii
  - /museum/mbo-tele-ball-iii
  - /museum/mentor-sport-tg-20
  - /museum/novoton-tj-141
  - /museum/novoton-video-sports
  - /museum/playtech-telesport
  - /museum/polistil-v-g-2
  - /museum/r-f-t-bss-01-bildschirmspiel-01
  - /museum/radofin-electronics-limited-tele-sports
  - /museum/riva-t-800c
  - /museum/roberts-paddle-iv
  - /museum/roberts-rally-iv
  - /museum/sands-3000
  - /museum/societe-occitane-d-electronique-oc-4
  - /museum/sonolor-telematch
  - /museum/sportron-101u
  - /museum/superlectron-tv-challenger-series-3000-tvc-3000
  - /museum/tele-flip-paris-video-sport-fy-707
  - /museum/thomson-jv1t
  - /museum/ultrasound-tele-sports
  - /museum/ultrasound-tv-9010
  - /museum/universum-tv-multi-spiel-handheld
  - /museum/universum-tv-spiel-1004
  oc_id: 1092
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613001108/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1092
    date: '2023-06-13'
---

The Blaupunkt TV-Action pong console is one of the few video games system not to use a standard TV Video output. This way, the TV-Action is only compliant with a short range of TV, all designed and created by Blaupunkt : Jamaica, Riviera, Nevada and Columbia series. Some other companies, such as Grundig, had the same politic and created some system that were only compliant with their own brand’s TV sets.

It’s important to notice that, on this system, no external power supply is required, as it comes directly from the TV set on which the video game system is connected to... using the same cord as for game display (video).

Except for this connectivity weirdness, the TV-Action is nothing but a classic Pong system, providing 4 different games (Tennis, Pelota, Hockey and Squash), with the classical speed/size/angle options. It’s composed of two controllers : the main one is directly connected to the TV set and contains all the games options & hardware (GI chip), while the second controller, connected to the first one, is smaller and offer a slider used by the second player to move his paddle.

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Text, info & pictures by **François Houste**.

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