General NewsAVOID MISSING BALL FOR HIGH SCORE...
February 8, 2009
Although "AVOID MISSING BALL FOR HIGH SCORE..." cannot claim to be the first set of printed, player-directed instructions in the history of video games, or even arcade machines, the phrase is nonetheless particularly evocative of a simpler age.Read the definition by Ashley Pomeroy
EgoPong & ToPong 
German Pong system sold by Palladium (Neckerman) - model 825/182, sold in many countries under different labels. The version sold by Palladium was enhanced with a gun port on the back and the classic shooting games. 
The Koerting - Tele Multiplay L - model ID 825/050 is a huge Pong console made by German manufacturer Koerting (Neckermann). It has two detachable controllers with turning knobs.
The Unimex - Mark-V is a quite small Pong system that was sold in Germany under the Unimex brand and in Great Britain under the Ingersoll brand. The game option buttons are included on the controllers: Speed, Angle and Restet buttons.
The Heathkit GD-1380 kit was released in 1976 and it looks like an old car radio... It plays the six games of the AY-3-8500 chip, and has several interesting features. First, it requires a Heathkit TV set to operate because of its composite output. 
TOMY - Blip - “The Digital Game.” Uh-huh, yeah, right. A mechanical Pong-type game that was invented by Hikoo Usami (Tokyo). All of the game play is mechanical, powered by a wind-up timer mechanism. The batteries are only there to light up the single red LED light that represents the ball. You can actually play the game with no batteries in a bright enough setting.
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