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title, categories, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	origins	years	cpus	params
MBO Tele-Ball III	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 III /media/museum/photos/mbo_tele-ball_iii_1s.jpg /companies/mbo MBO label value NAME Tele-Ball III 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 knobs/dials label value CPU AY-3-8500 from General Instruments ? label value SPEED Reset, Manual Service label value CO-PROCESSOR Speed fast/slow, Ball angle 20°/40°, Bat size large/small, Service auto/manual label value RAM On screen label value COLORS No label value SOUND Built-in speaker label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output, power in label value OS Yes (specs unknown) label value POWER SUPPLY External power supply (specs unknown) label value PERIPHERALS No label value PRICE Unknown photos emulators links 1129 title subtitle text image TELE-BALL III /media/museum/photos/mbo_tele-ball_iii_1.jpg title subtitle text image PICTURE #2 /media/museum/photos/mbo_tele-ball_iii_2.jpg title subtitle text image GAME SELECTION KNOB /media/museum/photos/mbo_tele-ball_iii_cp_1.jpg title subtitle text image OPTIONS PANEL /media/museum/photos/mbo_tele-ball_iii_cp_2.jpg title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/mbo_tele-ball_iii_box_1.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-ii /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 1159 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230613001055/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1159 2023-06-13

MBO, a popular German electronics manufacturer, produced a large serie of pong systems named "tele-ball" with numbers ranging from 1 to 9. Though they had some cosmetic differences, all these systems were very close to each other in terms of functionality.

The Tele-Ball III is thus very similar to the original Tele-Ball or Tele-Ball II, offering only the 4 classic pong games in black & white. As usual with MBO, the different systems are quite different cosmectically, but very close in termes of functionality.

The dial on the front panel is used to select the different games. Then 6 switches are used to select the different game options. Two red buttons acts as Reset button and Manual Service.

All in all, not a very exciting pong system...