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title	categories	origins	years	cpus	params
MBO Tele-Ball II	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 Tele-Ball II /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-2.jpg /companies/mbo MBO label value NAME Tele-Ball II label value MANUFACTURER MBO label value ORIGIN Germany label value YEAR 1977 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Tennis, Hockey, Handball, Practice label value KEYBOARD Two detachable controllers with one slider each label value CPU AY-3-8500 from General Instruments label value SPEED Reset, Manual serve, Game selection, Power on/off, Speed fast/slow, Bat size large/small, Serve auto/manual label value RAM On screen label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in speaker label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output label value OS 4 x 1,5v cells label value POWER SUPPLY 6v DC label value PERIPHERALS No photos emulators links 675 title subtitle text image TELEBALL II /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball2_3.jpg title subtitle text image INSIDE /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-2_inside.jpg title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/mbo_teleball-2_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/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/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-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 691 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230613002729/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=691 2023-06-13

This is a nice looking system from MBO, a famous electronic brand from Munich. It doesn't look at all like the other pongs. An original shape for both the unit (quite triangular in depth) and the remote controllers which are largely curved. The best part is that it has absolutely no switch, only buttons to select the different options. This system was sold in Germany as all the texts on the box are in german.

It is a classic pong system which uses the GI AY-3-8500 chipset, thus playing the 4 basic pong games. No shooting games here although the AY-3-8500 chip has got these games built-in. They simply did not implement the gun hardware :(

MBO produced a large serie of pong systems that they named "tele-ball" with numbers from 1 to 9. But there did not seem to be any real evolutivity as this model 2 for example, displays nearly the same features as the model 7 except for the 2 shooting games. Undoubtly it was just for marketing purposes. The chip included in the Tele-ball VII is dated from 1977 as the one included in the tele-ball II. So maybe they made different shapes at the same time just to propose "different products" and to sell more. The original Tele-Ball system for example, offers exactly the same 4 games...

An odd detail: whereas all the systems including a GI AY-3-8500 chip run with a 9 volts voltage, this one runs with only 6 volts.