This pong is one of the many Binatone systems. It is the first of the "Colour TV game" serie and offers 4 pong games (squash, squash practise, football, tennis).
In order to understand how this system fits into the Binatone pong range, here is simplified list of the systems :
TV Master MK IV
TV Master 4 plus 2
TV Master MK 6
TV Master MK 8
TV Master MK 10
Colour TV Game
Colour TV Game 4 plus 2
Colour TV Game MK 6
Colour TV Game MK 10
The TV master serie are black & white pongs (first generation). The Colour TV Game system is the same as the TV Master MK IV except that the games are in colour.
So how to differentiate a Colour TV Game from a TV Master MK IV ? Well first, the name... ;-) The underside and switches of the former are grey while those of the TV Master are orange. The Colour TV Game has also a small 'colour' logo next to its name (upper right).
The paddles are rather small, with one knob each, but are detachable and connected to the system through two small sockets. One interesting feature is that there is a switch to turn sound on / off (great !).
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I''ve still got mine lol...
Saturday 27th November 2010
Elizabeth (Scotland)
I use to have this machine,oh yeah my friends and me use to really want to play it so bad one day the end of the power cord was missing and me at 10 years old.decided to put the cord straight into the power point..lol yeah and BANG!
This machine was really something..
Tuesday 28th September 2004
William (Australia)
NAME
Colour TV Game (model n° 01 / 4931)
MANUFACTURER
Binatone
ORIGIN
United Kingdom
YEAR
? 1978
BUILT IN GAMES
4 games : squash, squash practice, football, tennis
CONTROLLERS
Two detachable paddles with knob
CPU
Unknown
BUTTONS
Start, Manual serve
SWITCHES
Game selection and player options (power, speed, bat size, angle, serve, sound)
