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title, categories, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	origins	years	cpus	params
Blaupunkt TV-Action	Pongs	Germany	1977	AY-3-8500 from General Instruments	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos emulators links related oc_id source TV-Action /media/museum/photos/blaupunkt_tv-action_1s.jpg /companies/blaupunkt Blaupunkt label value NAME TV-Action label value MANUFACTURER Blaupunkt label value ORIGIN Germany label value YEAR ? 1977 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE 4 (Tele-Tennis, Tele-Pelota, Tele-Hockey, Tele-Squash) label value KEYBOARD Built-in sliders label value CPU AY-3-8500 from General Instruments label value SPEED Start label value CO-PROCESSOR Ball angle, Ball Speed, Paddle Size label value RAM On screen label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Unknown label value OS No label value POWER SUPPLY Unknown (from TV?) label value PERIPHERALS No label value PRICE Unknown photos emulators links 1062 title subtitle text image TV-ACTION /media/museum/photos/blaupunkt_tv-action_1.jpg title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/blaupunkt_tv-action_box.jpg title url platform text www.pong-story.com http://www.pong-story.com/pcpong.htm Multiplatform Several pong emulators (simulators) presented here title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com /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 1092 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230613001108/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1092 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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