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Audiosonic Tele-Sports IV	Consoles	Europe	name company company_name specs tabs photos links comments related oc_id source Tele-Sports IV /companies/audiosonic Audiosonic label value NAME Tele-Sports IV label value MANUFACTURER Audiosonic label value ORIGIN Europe label value YEAR Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD Two controllers with analog joysticks and a fire button label value CPU None. Chipsets are located in each cartridge label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknown label value COLORS Yes label value SOUND Yes label value I/O PORTS Power in, TV RF video output label value BUILT IN MEDIA Cartridges label value OS 7 cartridges (maybe 8) label value POWER SUPPLY DC 9v, 800 mW / 6 x 1,5v UM2 battery cells label value PRICE Unknown photos links title subtitle text image BOX Thanks to Udo Hutschenreiter for this picture. null title url text INTERNAL LINK http://www.old-computers.com/magazine/view.asp?r=2&a=4 Article comparing the different GI catridge based systems author date text James Skilton (UK) Sunday 20th June 2010 Me and my sister had one of these when we were kids. we would have been about 10. It was really basic but I think we only had a b/w telly at the time! the scoring only went up to 15 indicating 4-bit registers! We only had the original pong/hockey/target etc cartridge. I think the target was our favourite game. the little analogue joysticks were a delight and much nicer than the switching digital joysticks that became commonplace soon after. We loved this game, but I think after we got a BBC computer it went under the stairs for a few years before being chucked out. author date text Conrad (Zoetermeer, Netherlands) Friday 25th February 2005 I have a different Audio Sonic game system somewhere at my parents house, it was more powerfull than this one. Don't whicht type it was, I have/had several games with it including Space Invaders, Tank Battle and Breakout. I will take it with me and take some pictures shortly! author date text Craig Chester (UK) Wednesday 15th December 2004 I had one of these system when I was very young. I spent hours in front of a 14" TV playing pong with anyone who couldn't get away! I remember it being well built, the controllers seemed indestructible. The 'Colour' buttons on the front allowed the player to select a range of colours for the foreground/background. Each button had a predifined combination. Combinations being different for each game, if I remember correctly. /museum/bandai-tv-jack-5000 /museum/h-g-s-electronic-telesport /museum/hanimex-sd-070-colour-programmable-tv-game-console /museum/mbo-teleball-cassetten-system /museum/palladium-tele-cassetten-game /museum/polycon-pg-7-programmable-tv-games /museum/poppy-9015 /museum/prinztronic-micro-5500 /museum/rollet-video-secam-system-4-303 /museum/s-h-g-black-point-fs-1003-fs-2000 /museum/sanwa-9015 /museum/teleng-colourstars /museum/unimex-mark-ix 761 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230614010959/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=761 2023-06-14

This is a typical system using catridges based on the different chipsets developped by General Instruments in the late 70s. Each GI chips was able to generate several games, ball games for a start, then later car racing, motorcycle, submarines, tanks and shooting games.

The system has two detachable controllers with one analog joystick and one fire button each. The control panel is composed of 10 buttons to select the different games offered by each cartridge (10 being the maximum). Difficulty switches, power switch and a start button can also be found. There are also three small buttons labeled "color 1, 2 & 3" which are used to change the display background colour! This is quite an original function on this type of system.

See the Prinztronic Micro 5500 for more info.

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Thanks to Udo Hutschenreiter for the picture.

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