Pong On A Chip
The table lists only the most known consoles and relative used chip.
| Chip code/name | Year | Manufacturer | Colors | Games | Consoles |
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| AY-3-8500 | 1976 | General Instrument | No (1) | Tennis, soccer, squash, practice, 2 rifle games | Telstar (Telstar, Classic, Deluxe, Ranger, Alpha, Colormatic, Regent, Sportsman) Odyssey (300,2000,3000) Radio Shack TV Scoreboard Unisonic Sportsman/Tournament Philips Tele-Spiel ES2203 and ES2204 Zanussi/Seleco Play-O-Tronic Videomaster (Strika, Strika 2,ColourScore 2, SuperScore) APF TV Fun (Model 401) BSS 01 |
| AY-3-8510 | 1978? | General Instrument | Yes | Tennis, hockey, squash, jai alai | Telstar Colortron |
| AY-3-8512 | 1978? | General Instrument | Yes | Tennis, hockey, squash, jai alai, skeet, target | Telstar Marksman |
| AY-3-8600 | 1977 | General Instrument | No(2) | 8 games with balls and paddles | Telstar Galaxy Odyssey 4000 Philips Tele-Spiel ES2218 |
| AY-3-8610 | 1977 | General Instrument | No(2) | 8 games with balls and paddles + 2 rifle games | Videomaster Sportsworld Philco/Ford Telejogo II |
| AY-3-8550 | 1976? | General Instrument | No(1) | The same of 8500 but with the addition of horizontal movement of player | Philips Tele-Spiel ES2208 |
| AY-3-8700 | 1978? | General Instrument | 4 games with tanks | Telstar Combat! |
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| MPS-7600-001,002,003,004 (3)(4) | 1977 | MOS Technology | The four versions of chip usually support 4 games. | Telstar Gemini(only version 004). Telstar Arcade(all 4 versions). Commodore TV Game 2000K/3000H (only version 001). |
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| MM-57100/MM-57105(PAL) | 1976 | National Semiconductor | Yes | Tennis, Hockey, Squash | National Adversary Philips Odyssey 2001 Videomaster (ColourScore, VisionScore, ColourShot) Philco/Ford Telejogo |
| MM-57106/MM-57186(PAL) | 1977 | National Semiconductor | Yes | Tennis, Hockey, Squash, Breakout, Flipper e Football. | Philips N30 Philips Odyssey 2100 |
| F4301 | 1976 | Universal Research Labs | N/A | Two games with balls and paddles and two games of car racing | Indy 500 system (Video Action 4) Sears/Atari Speedway e Speedway IV Interton Video 2800 MBO Tele-Ball VIII |
| SN76410N | 1977 | Texas Instruments | N/A | Six games of balls and paddles | Tele-Match 3300R Ricochet Super Pro (modello MT-4A) Venture Electronics Video Sports VS-5 |
| 3659-1C/C2566 | 1975 | Atari | No | Pong | Atari PONG |
| 3659-3 | 1975 | Atari | No | Pong | Atari PONG Doubles Sears PONG IV |
| C010073-3 | 1976 | Atari | No | 4 Pong games | Atari/Sears Super PONG |
| C010073-01/C2607 | 1976 | Atari | N/A | 10 Pong games | Atari Super PONG Ten |
| C010765 | 1977 | Atari | N/A | Atari Ultra PONG Atari Ultra PONG Doubles |
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| C011500-11/C011512-05 (4) | 1977 | Atari | N/A | 7 games (example: Pinball, Basketball and Breakout) | Atari Video Pinball |
(1) Colors could be obtained adding the AY-3-8515 chip
(2) Colors could be obtained adding the AY-3-8615 chip
(3) PAL version code is 7601
(4) Advanced chip compared to classic Pong-in-a-chip: include a microcontroller and a little RAM.
Read more about this topic: History Of Video Game Consoles (first Generation)
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