The 1976 CONIC TVG 101-4 Electronic Video Game Console

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[rEdf196]

I was 12 years old when I last played this game in 76-77 period. Sounds exactly as I remember it, It is the first time I have ssen this model in 35 years. Thanks for the memories.

[dmine45]

Wow.. and I thought that I had seen everything regarding those old video games... thanks for sharing!

[AMStationEngineer]

I can't believe that you didn't have to do a re-cap, as items from Hong Kong often arrived "fizzing" with bad capacitors (Lloyds Transistor radios were the worst offenders). Rivest266 is correct, retailers would refuse to honor the warranty on the CRT's when the phosphor dot screen showed signs of "pong burn". Most families would sacrifice an old BW TV. I remember selling a ton of 75/300-ohm matching transformers, and 6BN6's and 6BQ5's because the things overdrove the audio circuits (Zenith's)

[trviideoman]

cool how old where you when you got it

[vwestlife]

@78recordrepair Due to the fixed angles, the ball needs to bounce off the sides in order to make the game playable, because there is no way to hit it straight across. Anyway, the name "tennis" is a misnomer here, because Pong was designed to mimic ping-pong (table tennis), not real tennis.

[vwestlife]

There were endless variations of these Pong-clone consoles in the mid to late '70s, until the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 came along and let you do much more than just ball-and-paddle games. Still, the Pong consoles hung on for a while, with the nicer ones having color video and many more game variations.

[Synthematix]

similar version here in the UK made by binatone

[Christianpreaching]

A whole bunch of companies created these pong clones. I have several including the 1976 Super Pong, athe Coleco system, and a couple others. I never saw this unit before and it looks like nice system.

[HardKnocks60]

I remember back in '76 or so I owned a video game console quite similar to that one. It seemed quite fun to play at the time.

The Atari 2600 I purchased in 1982 was quite a step up from that, though, and it wasn't cheap either --it cost me $150.00, and that was just with the "Combat" cartridge.

[goldbergje]

No Atari Pong? :)