--- title: INTERTON Video 2400 categories: - Pongs origins: - Germany years: - '1975' cpus: - AY-3-8500 from General Instruments params: name: Video 2400 image: /media/museum/photos/interton_video2400.jpg company: /companies/interton company_name: INTERTON specs: - label: NAME value: Video 2400 - label: MANUFACTURER value: INTERTON - label: ORIGIN value: Germany - label: YEAR value: '1975' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Tennis, Hockey, Practice, Squash - label: KEYBOARD value: 2 detachable paddles with no fire button - label: CPU value: AY-3-8500 from General Instruments - label: SPEED value: Reset - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Power on/off, Ball speed pro/am, Ball angle pro/am, Paddle size pro/am - label: RAM value: On screen - label: COLORS value: Black & white - label: SOUND value: Built-in speaker - label: I/O PORTS value: RF TV video output - label: OS value: 9v battery - label: POWER SUPPLY value: 9v DC - label: PERIPHERALS value: 'No' tabs: - photos - software - emulators - links photos: - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/interton_video2400_inside.jpg - title: BOX subtitle: '' text: Excellent! image: /media/museum/photos/interton_video-2400_box.jpg screenshots: - title: TENNIS subtitle: '' text: |- There is one bat per side, a top and bottom boundary, and a center net. The individual scores are counted and displayed automatically. Considering the option where all bats and four angles are used, after the reset has been applied, the score will be 0-0 and the ball will serve arbitrarily to one side at one of the angles. If the ball hits the top or bottom boundary it will assume the angle of reflection and continue in play. The player beeing served must control his bat to intercept the ball. When a hit is detected by the logic circuit, the section of the bat which made the ball contact is used to determine the new angle of the ball. To expand on this, all bats are divided logically into four adjacent sections of equal length. When using the four angle option, it is the quarter section of the bat which actually hits and determine the new direction of the ball. The direction does not depend upon the previous angle of incidence. With the two angle option, top and bottom pairs of the bats are summed together and only the two shallower angles are used to program the new direction of the ball. The ball will be then sent back to the other player, bouncing on top and bottom noudaries as necessary until it reaches the other player. This action is repeated until one player misses the ball. The circuitry then detect a score and automatically increments the correct score counter and updates the score display. The ball will then serve automatically towards the side which has just missed. This sequence is repeated until a score of 15 is reached by one side, meaning the end of the game. The ball will still bounce arround but no further hits or scores can be made. While the game is in progress, 3 audio tones are generated by the system to indicate top and bottom reflections, bat hits and scores. image: /media/museum/software/gi_ay-3-8500_tennis.gif - title: FOOTBALL subtitle: Also called soccer and hockey text: With this game each player has a keeper and a striker. The layout is such that the keeper is in his normal position and the striker is positioned in the opponent's half of the playing area. When the game starts, the ball will appear going from one goal line to the other side. If the oppoenent's striker can intercept the ball, it will shoot it back towards the keeper. If the ball is missed, it will go to the other half of the playing area. The first team's striker will have then the opportunity to intercept the ball and deviate it at a new angle according to the playing option used. If the ball is intercepted by the keepr or it bounced back by the end-field boundary, the same striker will have another opportunity to intercept the ball and send it back to the keeper. A score is made by shooting the ball through the defined goal area. The circuitry then detect a score and automatically increments the correct score counter and updates the score display. The ball will then serve automatically towards the side which has just missed. This sequence is repeated until a score of 15 is reached by one side, meaning the end of the game. The ball will still bounce arround but no further hits or scores can be made. While the game is in progress, 3 audio tones are generated by the system to indicate top and bottom reflections, bat hits and scores. image: /media/museum/software/gi_ay-3-8500_football.gif - title: SQUASH subtitle: '' text: This is a two players games. Players alternately hit back the ball into the playfield. The right-hand player is the one that hit first, then it goes over to the other player. Each player is enabled alternately. image: /media/museum/software/gi_ay-3-8500_squash.gif - title: SQUASH PRACTICE subtitle: '' text: This game is similar to Squash except that there is only one player. image: /media/museum/software/gi_ay-3-8500_squash-practice_ss.gif 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: '' comments: - author: BaldGuy (Ireland) date: Wednesday 25th August 2021 text: We had one as kids in IRELAND back in the mid 1970''s . I recall it was a great wonder at the time . - author: Polent date: Tuesday 24th November 2015 text: I also have one. So possibly not too rare. But mine still works after 40 years. - author: Faliorn (Spain) date: Thursday 22nd September 2011 text: I also just got one of these, boxed with manual and working! I also was wondering how rare this was. - author: pasotex date: Sunday 22nd August 2010 text: |- i have this one. my father gave it to me.\ and: it is working fine!\ i love this little machine, but: release must have been in 1975 because got it then and has a few reasons to be sure:)\ how rare is this one? 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/blaupunkt-tv-action - /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/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: 686 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230614011010/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=686 date: '2023-06-14' --- One more pong from the famous german manufacturer. This system is like the Video 3000 system but with paddles and without the gun option. It's very compact compared to the larger Video 2800 or Video 3000 systems. It's based on the AY-3-8500 chip from General Instruments. It was designed to be sold worldwide as there are no text labels but only logical pictograms. The [Thomson JV1T](/museum/thomson-jv1t/) for example, is an example of rebadged Video 2400 system for foreign markets (France here). The main particularity of the system is that despite the fact that it uses a "common" AY-3-8500 GI chipset, if offers 5 games, one more than what the chip can normally do. The bonus game is a "5 paddles" soccer game (in fact 2 paddles for left player and 3 for right one). It is a non-documented game. It is normaly possible to play it on any pong system (GI chipset powered) if you can manage to not select any game (game switch must not indicate any game). Some systems, like the Interton Video 2400 can play this game natively though.
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