Television Magazine, october 1974 (England).

This system was announced in october 1974 by Television Magazine, and was sold either ready-made or as in kit form. As you can see on the picture, the system is digital without using dedicated game chip and displays digital scores on the screen. We could wonder who would have designed such a system.

Excepted those who know the PONG story, people would say "a talented electronician". False !!! The board that you see is nothing else than a bootleg (copied from Atari PONG or its clones: Chicago, etc.. )

The board is nearly the same as the one of the Atari PONG arcade machine, and has been modified a little bit. We can obviously say that the screen showing the game is not a real screen-shot, and this is not a hazard. As a matter of fact, the real game would have been immediately recognised as it is the same as the Atari PONG.

We still ignore if it was legal to copy an analog or digital system, since it did not use a software. What we can say is that Atari patented their games at the end of 1973 (one year after the release of the first arcade PONG machine). But PONG games began to be copied no later than a few weeks after their introduction on the market in 1972.


http://www.pong-story.com/

http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/bronzeage/tvtennis/

http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Arcade_Manuals_and_Schematics/

http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Arcade_Manuals_and_Schematics/Pong%20Doubles.pdf

CHICAGO (with no schematics)
https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameManualTvpingpong



ATARI PONG X2 (with schematics)
http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Arcade_Manuals_and_Schematics/Pong%20Schematics.pdf

ATARI PONG X4 (with schematics)

http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/P/PinPong.pdf

Digital games 474 (with schematics)
http://discrete.mameworld.info/Rough/474/DigitalGames474.pdf

ALLIED Paddle Battle (with schematics)

http://discrete.mameworld.info/Rough/PaddleBattle/PaddleBattle.pdf



ALLIED TennisTour (with schematics)
http://discrete.mameworld.info/Rough/TennisTour/TennisTourney.pdf


http://www.pong-story.com/LAWN_TENNIS.pdf

https://archive.org/details/arcademanuals?sort=-publicdate

http://www.pong-story.com/leisure.htm

http://www.pong-story.com/intro.htm

http://www.pong-story.com/atpong1.htm

http://www.pong-story.com/atpong2.htm

http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/T/tagteam_wr.pdf

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/userfiles/337181-20150224_235928.jpg

http://discrete.mameworld.info/Rough/Rough.htm



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