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6,654 pages: 1,289 machines, 702 software, 460 companies, 64 history, 17 articles, 59 fun. 4,336 media files so far; references to files not downloaded yet are left out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: TV Hockey (4 players)
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tags:
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- ball and paddle
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- hockey
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- sport
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years:
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- '1973'
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params:
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specs:
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- label: year of release
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value: '1973'
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- label: companies
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value: Amutronics
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- label: type
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value: game
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- label: media
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value: arcade cabinet
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- label: systems
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value: Arcade
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- label: number of players
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value: 2 - 4 players (versus)
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screenshots:
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- title: Screenshot
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: MOA exhibition nov.1973
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: Arcade cabinet
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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machines:
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- /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
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company: /companies/misc
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oc_id: 1852
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603013747/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=1852
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date: '2023-06-03'
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TV Hockey from Amutronics is an early arcade videogame from 1973, largely inspired by Pond Doubles from Atari released the same year.
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It's a "ball and paddle" game for 2 or 4 players. Each player control his paddle with a dedicated knob. In two players mode, each player control two paddles at the same time (to be confirmed).
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The gameplay mimics a game of Hockey, though it could be also played as a soccer game, as it's often the case whith these early paddle games.
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The differences with Pong Doubles are:\
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\- The boundaries of the playfield are displayed as white borders (none in Atari's game)\
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\- There is a serve button to launch the ball after each points (automatic in Pong Doubles)\
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\- The goals are particularly well represented, a nice graphical touch for 1973 !
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There was also a two players version of TV Hockey from Amutronics released earlier the same year (1973), but it's a different game, very similar to Hockey TV from Sega, where mid-fields paddles move automaticaly during the game...
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