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Stellar Electronique Combat lunaire	Consoles	France	1978	GI AY-3-8710 from General Instruments	name company company_name specs tabs photos comments oc_id source Combat lunaire /companies/stellar-electronique Stellar Electronique label value NAME Combat lunaire label value MANUFACTURER Stellar Electronique label value ORIGIN France label value YEAR 1978 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Combat lunaire (aka Tank battle), 2 modes : normal and lazeroïde label value KEYBOARD 4 directions and fire buttons for each player, built-in the console label value CPU GI AY-3-8710 from General Instruments label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in beeper label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output label value POWER SUPPLY 220V AC with built-in transformer photos title subtitle text image INSIDE No screw, no bolt, just some hot glue. null title subtitle text image FRONT VIEW null author date text Alex Martin (Seattle, WA) Saturday 4th February 2006 Just pick up one of the numerous General Instruments-based systems and get the appropriate version of Tank Battle for it if you would like to play the game and see how it looks on your tv. Some of the more obscure GI systems are quite rare but most are dirt cheap. They were very popular in Europe as Atari did not release the 2600 there for a little while. The craze caught on, but without the original article lots of companies started churning out simple GI-based consoles to satisfy the demand. author date text Pierre-Emmanuel (Bordeaux, France) Tuesday 10th June 2003 As this system is based on a GI AY-3-8710 chip which is very similar to the GI AY-3-8700 that you can find in the Coleco Combat!, just look at the Combat! screenshot to see what the game looks like.\ Playing is very simple : each player has 4 control buttons (forward/reverse for each side of the tank) an a fire button. author date text Elisha (male) (USA) Tuesday 10th June 2003 This is the weirdest system i have ever seen !!! I would like to know how you play the thing and what it the game looks like on your tv screen... 733 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230613002708/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=733 2023-06-13

A weird and rare french system, built by Stellar Electronique from Grasse, France. The games are two variation of the classic Tank Battle.

Everything on this system have been designed in order to reduce the costs. No joysticks or paddles, just some buttons built-in the console. The case is made of two thermoformed plastic sheets, just stuck with hot glue. The board itself is hot-glued on the lower half of the case ! No screw or bolt were used to built this cheap console, and all the wires and components are hand soldered, suggesting that only a small number of units were built. 1978 is an estimated year of production, as the chip itself was released in 1978.

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