keilbaca Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Check this out, I spotted this, costed me $50 but I didn't care, as its unique, in my opinion at least. They made a pong unit, apparenly in 1977, as the date on the box. Well, here's the pictures! The box is pretty beaten up, but other than that, the console is in mint condition. http://premium1.uploadit.org/keilbaca/Nint...o-Pong-unit.JPG http://premium1.uploadit.org/keilbaca/Nint...pong-unit-2.JPG http://premium1.uploadit.org/keilbaca/Nint...pong-unit-3.JPG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Galaga Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Cool. I see that they were in to orange cabinets back then too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Very nice.. I'd say that's a fair price too There was a guy on ebay selling a mib copy of their breakout console not all that long ago too... but that went for a couple hundred I think. Nintendo had a couple of pre-famicom games going: -A laser shooting arcade in 1972. -Pong and Breakout style consoles in 1976 ((Nintendo 6, Nintendo 15, Nintendo Block) -Racing (Nintendo 112 Racing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 Hmm, I'll have to look out for those while I'm here. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 If you want.. here's a fanzine with some info on them. Check it out: http://www.retrogames.co.uk/magazine/html/...l/issue_22.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 One little tidbit related to this: the Japanese still use the generic term "TV Games" rather than "Video Games" - because of these Nintendo machines. Nintendo had a whole line of these that used the "TV Games" moniker and it just stuck as a generic term there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 IIRC, video games were originally called "TV games" over here too. I think some company started calling them video games and pretty much single-handedly popularized the term. I want to say Atari, but my memory of the article is extremely hazy, so I won't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Hey that's a neat Pong. Probably a pretty good price for a boxed one. Nice find. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 Does anyone have one of these? Because I think its powering up, but I'm not sure of the american tv's are tuned differently and is not displaying the japanese pong. Just wondering to see if this this the reason why its not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 Never mind, it was the power adapter. I hooked it up to my universal adapter and it works like a charm. Only one problem, my tv isn't japanese, so it doesn't sync up with any channels. You can play it on like channel 10, but it has static for sound, but it works. You can also hear the sound through the interference, so the sound works as well. At least I know the unit works... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdement Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 (edited) Do you happen to have a really old VCR handy? Some of those have manual tuning adjustments on them, you could manually try to dial in the correct frequency. I suppose old TVs might also have something similar. Edited April 12, 2005 by gdement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 I tried it on an old tv, to no avail. When it gets here from my move from japan next month, I'll try it out on my big tv, I found out today that it has a Channel 1. If all else fails, I have a capture card that I can set to Japanese frequencies and play it on Channel 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Nice find, kinda pricey, but it looks worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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