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In 1967, Bill Rusch, who was working with Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison on the development of the Magnavox Odyssey, suggested a ping pong type game. This game would go on to become Table Tennis and be packed in with the new Odyssey as Cart 1. In May 1972, Nolan Bushnell visited a Magnavox Odyssey demonstration in Burlingame, California where he played this table tennis game. Bushnell would later have Allan Alcorn design a similar game, and Atari released their first Pong arcade machines later that year, which would influence the design of many arcade clones and eventually the Pong home consoles themselves. Through the Magnavox Odyssey and the Atari Pong, table tennis would launch the home video game market.

Pong Comes Home

Allan Alcorn designed Pong in 1972 as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey. Surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work, Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney decided to manufacture the game, which became the first arcade version of Pong. Within 3 months, other companies were cashing in on the success of Pong with their own versions. There was little Bushnell could do about the "jackals" who stole the game, as he did not patent it. Ironically, Magnavox later sued Atari (and many other manufacturers) for stealing their Table Tennis game.

With the success of Pong, it was only natural that people would want to take the game home. Along with the many arcade clones, companies started to manufacture home versions of the game. In 1974, Atari engineer Harold Lee proposed a home version of Pong that would connect to a television. The system began development under the codename Darlene. By the end of 1974, several manufacturers in both the US and Europe had already started selling home versions of Pong. In 1975, Atari developed the first Pong on a Chip, and started selling their Pong version through Sears in time for Christmas as Tele-Games Pong. Atari's new microchips were not made available to other game manufacturers, and by 1976 Texas Instruments, General Instruments, National Semiconductors, and others began designing their own Pong chips.

With easy access to Pong chips, every radio, television, and electronics manufacturer (a leather company, department stores, and many other industries) all hopped on the Pong bandwagon. Magazines started running ads for DIY Pong kits. Food manufacturers licensed Pong systems to promote their products. By 1977, companies all around the world were developing Pong clones: Eastern Europe, USSR, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and several countries in South America. Pong flooded the toy, sports, and electronic sectors, and by 1978 the newly established video game industry experienced its first market crash.

Categorizing Pong Consoles

Pong home consoles are essentially Plug and Play video gaming systems (meaning they have built in games played on your television) found within the First Generation of video gaming consoles. Because there is such a large number of them, they're getting a section of their own, separate from other Plug and Plays. This list has over 940 unique consoles listed. I've consolidated several different lists found on the internet, but not all of them (I had to stop somewhere). Compared to other lists this may be one of the largest, but it should not be considered a complete list.

What is and is not on the list

The list is broken up into 3 sections:

Discrete Circuitry is a bit of a misnomer, as most Pong systems are discrete logic. Discrete logic circuitry refers to systems that didn't use a processor (CPU) to run software or memory (ROM) to store software. That is to say, it is incapable of running a game program. All consoles from Generation 1 were strictly hardware. Although a Pong chip isn't necessarily software, this Discrete Circuit category is essentially everything before the Pong chips that came out in 1976. The first systems (Magnavox Odyssey 100, Zanussi Ping-O-Tronic, Epoch Electrotennis) were made with a circuit board full of resistors, capacitors, and transistors. Later, these components were shrunk down into early forms of integrated circuits, or microchips, and you began to see improvements with things like character generators (paddle, ball), game logic (serve, ball rebounds, collision detection, etc.), and on-screen scoring.
Pong on a Chip became a reality with advances in integrated circuitry. Atari made the first Pong chip, 3659-1, which played 1 game, Pong (obviously). Later in 1975, General Instruments designed the AY-3-8500, which was the basis for a majority of Pong consoles on the market. Other chip manufacturers were Mostek, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductors, Universal Research Labs, Mitsubishi (for Nintendo), and others.
Advancements in integrated circuits continued, and chip manufactures started to make more complex characters (cars and rocket ships for example), and more complex game logic. Some of the more popular, more complex games of the time included Tank Battle, Car Racing, Stunt Cycle, Breakout, and others. These are listed as a separate category: others/not Pong.

What you won't find on this list are systems that incorporated a lot of these "other" chips, but did so in cartridge form. I've chosen to list these cartridge-based, first generation consoles separate from the dedicated Plug and Play consoles listed here. Some of the systems you won't see here is the Magnavox Odyssey, the PC-50x family of systems, Coleco Telstar Arcade, and others.

Discrete Circuitry

Binatone (UK)

TV Gaming Unit 01-4990 (Analog) 1976

EA (Germany)

TV-Ping-Pong DN 76 (Digital) 1976

Entex (USA)

Tele-Pong 3047 (Analog) 1976
Gameroom Tele-Pong (Analog) 1976

Epoch (Japan)

TV Tennis ElectroTennis 1975 (first home console in Japan)
TV Tennis ElectroTennis 1976 silver case version

Executive Games (USA)

Television Tennis 35 (Analog+Digital) 1975
Face Off Rev. C (Analog+Digital) 1976
Face Off Rev. E1 (Analog+Digital) 1976
Face Off Rev. C-1 (Analog+Digital) 1976
Face Off (Analog+Digital) 1976 PAL Prototype

First Dimension (USA)

Video Sports model FD-3000W (Analog (CMOS)) 1975
Tele Sports (Digital (CMOS)) 1976

General Home Products (USA)

Gulliver Triple Challenge (7701) Odyssey 300 clone

Henry's Radio (UK)

VideoSport MK2 (gold lettering) (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1974
Videosport MK2 (no gold lettering) (Analog (TTL/trans)) 1975

Interfab (USA)

PONG IV Kit assembled (TTL) 1976
PONG IV Kit RF oscillator tuned (TTL) 1976
PONG IV Kit unassembled (TTL) 1976

Lasonic (France)

Lasonic 200 (Analog) 1976

Magnavox (USA)

Odyssey 100 7010 (Digital (TI)) 1975
Odyssey 200 7020 (Digital (TI)) 1975
Odyssey 400 7516 (Digital (TI)) 1976
Odyssey 500 7520 (Digital (TI)) 1976

Mestron (Denmark)

Fernseh Spiel TVG 2006 (Analog (TTL/Transistor)) 1976

Orelec (France)

PP-2000 (Analog (TTL)) 1976

Packel Instrument (Australia)

Tennis Game Machine 1975

Philips (EU)

Odyssey 200 (Digital (TI)) 1976 =Magnavox Odyssey

Pizon Bros (France)

Visomatic 101 (Alcatel chipset) 1973

Superlectron (EU)

TV Challenger 2000 (Analog) 1976

Universal Research (USA)

Video Action VA2 (Digital (TTL)) 1975
Video Action 3 VA3 (Digital (CMOS)) 1976

Video Marketing Corp. (USA)

Handi Pong IV kit (1976)

Videomaster (UK)

Home TV Game VM 577 (Analog (TTL)) 1974
Home TV Game (MK2) VM 577 (Analog (TTL)) 1975 Bronze metal
Home TV Game MK3 VM3 (Analog) 1975
Home TV Game MK3 VM3 (Analog) 1975 With scoring add-on
Olympic VM3 MK2 (Analog) 1975
Rally VM4 MK1 (Analog (CMOS)) 1975

Videotronic (UK)

Videotronic II 1976

Zanussi / Seleco (Italy)

Ping-O-Tronic PP-2 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975
Ping-O-Tronic PP-3 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975
Ping-O-Tronic PP-4 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975
Ping-O-Tronic PP-5 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975
Ping-O-Tronic PP-6 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975
Ping-O-Tronic PP-9 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975
Ping-O-Tronic PP-10 (Analog (TTL/Trans)) 1975

? (unknown brand)

(Netherlands) Television Gaming Unit (Analog) 1976 =Entex Tele-Pong

Integrated Circuitry "Pong on a Chip"

A10 (Germany)

Telespiel 9010 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Telespiel 9012 (AY-3-8500) 1977

ABN Bank (Netherlands)

TV Spel 800C
TV Spel AU-807 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Spel T-338 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Academy (UK)

Video Game D-5614 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Video Game D-5654 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TVG-406-6

Adman (UK)

Model 1000 Sportsvision

AER (Japan)

CT-57100K kit (MM-57100N) 1977
MT-8500K kit (AY-3-8500) 1977
Color TV Game kit AER-8500C (AY-3-8500) 1977
CT-7600K kit (MPS 7600-001) 1977
AER-7600V kit (MPS 7600-001) 1977 orange case
AER-7600V kit complete (MPS 7600-001) 1977 orange case
AER-7600 kit (MPS 7600-001) 1977 blue case
AER-7600 kit complete (MPS 7600-001) 1977 blue case
AER-57100 kit (MM 57100) 1977
AER-57100 kit complete (MM 57100) 1977
AER-500A Car racing kit (F-4301) 1977
AER-500A Car racing kit complete (F-4301) 1977
AER-8500 A / CA (complete kit) (AY-3-8500) 1977
AER-8500 A / CA (board kit) (AY-3-8500) 1977
AER-8550 A / CA (complete kit) (AY-3-8500) 1977
AER-8550 A / CA (board kit) (AY-3-8500) 1977
AER-8600A / CA (complete kit) (AY-3-8500) 1977
AER-8600A / CA (board kit) (AY-3-8500) 1977
AER-8600VA (MPS 7600-001) 1977
AER-8600Z (MPS 7600-001) 1977
AER-8600C (MPS 7600-001) 1977 joystick version

AGS (US)

TVG-101

Ajax

TV Sports Game T-338 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Game 406-6 1977
Video Games TG-621 1977
TV Game T-800 1977
TV Game T-800C 1977
TV Game AU-807 1977
Color Video Game BM-1000 1977

Akur

TVG-SD-01-8 Color

Alex (Germany)

Videospiel TG-621 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Allied's (USA)

Name Of The Game A-100 (MCS-7600-001) 1976
Name Of The Game II A-300 (MCS-7600-001) 1976

Alltronic

Electronic TV Game Centre Model 15
HK 1350

Alpha Electronics (Australia)

Videotronic 3388
Videotronic II 8550C

Ameprod (Poland)

TVG-10 (AY-3-8500) 1981

APF (USA)

Match SD-1 405 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Match SD-1c 405 (AY-3-8500) 1977 white case
TV FUN 401 (AY-3-8500) 1976
TV FUN 401A (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV FUN Sportsarama 402 (MPS-7600-001) 1977 pistol
TV FUN 405A (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV FUN 406F (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV FUN 442 (TMS-1955N) 1977
TV FUN 444

Asaflex (France)

"6" (AY-3-8500) 1977
Video Sports (AY-3-8500) 1977
Video Sports 2000 (AY-3-8500) 1978
Inno-Hit GT 66-C (AY-3-8500) 1977

Atari (USA)

PONG C-100 (3659-1C) 1976
PONG Doubles C-160 1976
Super PONG C-140 (C010073-3) 1976
Super PONG PRO-AM C-200 (C010073-01) 1977
Super PONG PRO-AM TEN C-202 (C010073-03) 1977
Super PONG Ten C-180 (C010073-01) 1976
Ultra PONG C-402 (S) (C010765+Cxxxxx) 1977
Ultra PONG Doubles C-402(D) (C010765+Cxxxxx) 1977
Video Pinball C-380 (C011500, C011512) 1977 white color
Video Pinball C-380 (C011500, C011512) 1977 woodgrain
Stunt Cycle C-450 1977

Atomic (Germany)

TV-Player 1
TV-Player 2

Audiosonic (EU)

PP-150
Color TV Game PP-160 (AY-3-8500) 1982
PP-420
Home TV Set PP-600 (AY-3-8500) 1977
PP 800
PP 900
PP 920
PP-930
PP 940
TVG-201
TVG-4
TVG-6
Tele-Sports Mini

Bandai (Japan)

TV Jack 1000 (TMS 1955) 1977 black case
TV Jack 1000 (TMS 1955 clone) 1977 cream case
TV Jack 1200 (TMS 1955 clone) 1977
TV Jack 1500 1977 (Packel TV Mate Duke)
TV Jack 2500
TV Jack 3000 (?) 1977 [pong + car race]

Bang Bang Electonic Co., Ltd. (Australia)

TV Master Mark II (AY-3-8500) 1977

Bentley (UK)

Compu-Vision 440 (AY-3-8500) 1983

Bianchi (Spain)

Telesport

Binatone (UK)

TV Tron 01-4982 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Master MK IV 01-4974 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Master 4 Plus 2 01-4869 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Master MK 6 01-4907 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Master MK 8 01-4823 (AY-3-8610) 1978
TV Master MK 10 01-4834 (AY-3-8610) 1978
Colour TV Game 01-4931 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Colour TV Game 4 Plus 2 01-4850 (AY-3-8500) 1978
Colour TV Game MK 6 01-4761 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Colour TV Game MK 10 01-4842 (AY-3-8610) 1978

Bingo (France)

TVG 203 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TVG-205
Video Game HI-1012 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Blaupunkt (Germany)

TV-Action (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Action Color 100 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Action Color 200 (AY-3-8500) 1977
(Argentina) Telejuego (AY-3-8500) 1977

BMC

Video Game TVG-5000
Video Game TVG-8000

Boots (UK)

Audio TG100 (AY-3-8500) 1977

C&G Elettronic (Italy)

Bream Play Special
Breamcolor
TVG Teleplay

Calfax (US)

Bag-a-Tel EP-800 (TMS-1955) 1977

Canadian Tire Corp. (Canada)

Video Sports 84-6072 (AY-3-8500 )1976 VS-1 clone

Car Safety (Germany)

Atomic TV Player 1 (AY-3-8500) 1977

CIT Alcatel (France)

Visiomatic 101 (AY-3-8500) 1977 Pistol

CIC

TVG-406-6 1977

Co-Ocean Industry (Japan)

Homer

Coleco (USA)

Telstar 6040 (AY-3-8500) 1976
Telstar Alpha 6030 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Telstar Alpha Europa (AY-3-8500) 1977
Telstar Classic 6045 (AY-3-8500) 1976
Telstar Colormatic 6130 (AY-3-8500 SN76499) 1977
Telstar Colortron 6135 (AY-3-8510) 1978
(Canada) Telstar Deluxe "Video World Of Sports"
Telstar Galaxy 6150 (AY-3-8600, 8615) 1977 Joysticks
Telstar Marksman 6136 (AY-3-8512) 1978 Pistol
Telstar Ranger 6046 (AY-3-8500) 1977 Pistol
Telstar Regent 6032 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Telstar Sportsman (AY-3-8500) 1978
Telstar Gemini 6155 (MPS-7600-004) 1977

Comersa (Spain)

Videosport 4000
Videosport 4000 Color
Videosport Junior

Commodore (EU)

TV Game 2000K (MPS-7601) 1977
TV Game 3000H (MPS-7601) 1977

Concept 2000 (USA)

Spectrum 6 61025 (MM-57100N) 1977
TV +4 1004 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Nose T' Nose, model 1006

Conic (EU)

304 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Color Video Game
Colour 8
DX-702
TVG 101-4 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TVG 102-4 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TVG-201
TVG-201-4
TVG-202
TVG-204-4
TVG-209 (AY-3-8500) 1979
TV Color Sport TVG-406-6
TVG-4010-6 (AY-3-8610)
TVG-SD-01
TV Sport TG 621 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TV Sports TG-721

Continental Edison (France)

JV2701
JV-2703 (AY-3-8500) 1977
JV2705
JV2707

Creatronic

Bi.Bip 4 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Bi.Bip 8 (AY-3-8600) 1977
Bi.Bip 100

CVT Industries (New Zealand)

Videosport

Daedei Industries (Japan)

Video game kit (AY-3-8500) 1976
Video game kit (AY-3-8500) 1976 finished product
Video game wireless kit (AY-3-8500) 1977

Dayya Corp. (USA)

Marume 2000 VM-90C (MPS-7600-001) 1977

Dazzla (Japan)

TV-GAMES 007
Video Game Dazzler M-20-5 1977
Video game Dazura M-100-4 1977
TV game dazzler C-011-6 (MM 57100) 1977
TV game dazzler TVG 300

DDR (Germany)

TV-Spiele (AY-3-8500) 1977

Decca (UK)

Sport TV Game monochrome
Sports TV Game TG-0062 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Derby Master (UK)

Multi Color 777-JS (NTL 600) 1977

Diasonic (USA)

HVG-220 (AY-3-8500) 1977
(Australia) TV Game Y-1170

Dick Smith Electronics (Australia)

Y-1170 TV Game 1977
Video Ball Game Kit 1978

Digitek (USA)

TV Game 2001 (AY-3-8500) 1977

DKS

TVG-406-6

DMS (USA)

Tele-Action GMT513 (AY-3-8500) 1983
Telesports Mini (AY-3-8500-01) 1983

Dyn Electronics (US)

Rally IV

E&P Electronic (USA)

Mecca TV Game EP 460
Granada TV Game EP500
Mecca TV Game EP500
Nobility TV Game EP500
Windsor TV Game EP500
4 Electronic TV Sport Games EP800 (TMS-1955N) 1977

Eaca (Netherlands)

Hide-Away TV Game

Echo Electronics Corp (Spain)

TV-Games LU-009

Eiken (Japan)

Video fighter G2200 1977
Video fighter G6600 1977

Electronic Do Brasil

TV Bol 1978

Electrophonic

Pro-Sports TVG-1001

Elektronika (Russia)

Палестра-02 "Palestra-02" (K145IK17) 1978
Eksi-Video 01 (K145IK17) 1978
Eksi-Video 02 (K145IK17)
Эврика "Eureka" (K145IK17) 1978
Турнир "Tournament" (AY-3-8500) 1978
телеигра Лидер "TV Game Leader" (K145IK17) 1978
ВИДЕОСПОРТ "Videosport" (K145IK17) 1978
Videosport-2 (K145IK17)
Videosport-M (K145IK17)
Видеоспорт-3 "Videosport-3" (K145IK17) 1989

Electrophonic (USA)

Pro-Sports TVG-1001 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Electrosport

Colour T.V. Games TV-01 (MM-57105N) 1978

Eletron (Brazil)

Tv-Jogo
Tv-Jogo Canal 14

Elwro (Poland)

TVG-10 (AY-3-8500) 1978

Enterprex (USA)

Color Home Video Game Apollo 2001 (AY-3-8500) 1977
Color Home Video Game Apollo 2004 (AY-3-8600) 1977

Entex (Japan)

TV computer game TVG-200 1977

Epoch (Japan)

System 10
System 10-M2
System 10 MK II

Evadin (Brazil)

TVG 102-4 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Exclusiv

TVG-204 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TVG-209 (AY-3-8500) 1977
TVG-409 (AY-3-8500) 1977

Eximec (Germany)

TV-Spiel Color 1
TV-Spiel Color 2

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