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title	categories	origins	years	cpus	params
SAFT LECLANCHÉ TV8 Sports	Pongs	France	1978	AY-3-8610	name image company company_name specs tabs photos screenshots links comments related oc_id source TV8 Sports /media/museum/photos/saft-leclanche_tv8-sports_1.jpg /companies/saft-leclanche SAFT LECLANCHÉ label value NAME TV8 Sports label value MANUFACTURER Saft Leclanché label value ORIGIN France label value YEAR 1978 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Squash, Squash solo, Tennis, Hockey, Football, Basketball, Basket solo, Gridball label value KEYBOARD Two joysticks label value CPU AY-3-8610 label value SPEED Serve, Reset label value CO-PROCESSOR Power on/off, Ball speed pro/am, Right paddle size pro/am, Left paddle size pro/am, Service manual/auto label value RAM On screen label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in speaker label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output label value OS 9v battery cells label value POWER SUPPLY No label value PERIPHERALS No label value PRICE Unknown photos software links title subtitle text image TV8 SPORTS /media/museum/photos/saft-leclanche_tv8-sports_2.jpg title subtitle text image INSIDE /media/museum/photos/saft-leclanche_tv8-sports_inside.jpg title subtitle text image TENNIS /media/museum/software/ay-3-8610_tennis_ss.gif title subtitle text image FOOTBALL / SOCCER /media/museum/software/ay-3-8610_football_ss.gif title subtitle text image HOCKEY /media/museum/software/ay-3-8610_hockey_ss.gif title subtitle text image BASKETBALL /media/museum/software/ay-3-8610_basket_ss.gif title subtitle text image GRIDBALL /media/museum/software/ay-3-8500_gridball_ss.gif title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com author date text Adrian Scheel (Germany) Friday 8th October 2010 This was also sold in France by an obscure company called Galaxica. While The Sauft Leclanché was in orange, the Galaxica is in off-white. Also the paddle knobs of the Galaxica are slightly different.\ Pictures can be seen on my website. author date text Tempest (France) Sunday 10th November 2002 Saft Leclanché was the french pioneer in battery manufacturing. Isn't funny that a battery maker sale a power-hungry and no-external-power-supply PONG system ? /museum/binatone-colour-tv-game-mk-10-model-n-01-4842 /museum/ingersoll-xk-410c /museum/mbo-tele-ball-ix /museum/universum-color-tv-multi-spiel-4010 736 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230614011102/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=736 2023-06-14

This is a real funky french pong system! It is orange and very round in shape. It doesn't look like any other pong system ! Its two round paddles are also quite unsual. They are identical to those of the OC5000 sytem.

This system includes the AY-3-8610 chipset from General Instruments. That explains why there are joysticks instead of simple sliders, since with this chip, you can move your paddle horizontally and vertically (whereas with the more comme AY-3-8500, you could only move it vertically).

The system offers 8 games, hence its name (TV8 Sports). The two shooting games of the AY-3-8610 are simply not implemented on this system.

We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.