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---
title: TV Hockey (4 players)
tags:
- ball and paddle
- hockey
- sport
years:
- '1973'
params:
image: /media/museum/software/tv-hockey%284p%29_amutronics_1973_ss_1.png
specs:
- label: year of release
value: '1973'
- label: companies
value: Amutronics
- label: type
value: game
- label: media
value: arcade cabinet
- label: systems
value: Arcade
- label: number of players
value: 2 - 4 players (versus)
screenshots:
- title: Screenshot
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tv-hockey%284p%29_amutronics_1973_ss_1.png
- title: MOA exhibition nov.1973
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tv-hockey%284p%29_amutronics_1973_article-nov-1973.jpg
- title: Arcade cabinet
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/tv-hockey%284p%29_amutronics_1973_arcade-cab_1.png
machines:
- /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
company: /companies/misc
oc_id: 1852
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603013747/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=1852
date: '2023-06-03'
---
TV Hockey from Amutronics is an early arcade videogame from 1973, largely inspired by Pond Doubles from Atari released the same year.
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).
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.
The differences with Pong Doubles are:\
\- The boundaries of the playfield are displayed as white borders (none in Atari's game)\
\- There is a serve button to launch the ball after each points (automatic in Pong Doubles)\
\- The goals are particularly well represented, a nice graphical touch for 1973 !
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...