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    The Bally Astrocade (also known as Bally Arcade and initially as Bally ABA-1000) is a second-generation home video game console and simple computer system...
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  • as the Bally Computer System. When Astrovision changed their name to Astrocade in 1982 they also changed the name of the console to the Astrocade to follow...
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  • Bally Pin is a pinball-based video game released in 1979 for Bally Astrocade. It was programmed by Bob Ogdon with sound by Scot L. Norris. The game is...
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  • 2600, and Atari 5200 and renamed to The Incredible Wizard for the Bally Astrocade. The original cartridge came with a cash prize offer to the first person...
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  • Artillery Duel (category Bally Astrocade games)
    an artillery game originally written for the Bally Astrocade by Perkins Engineering and published by Bally in 1982. John Perkins wrote the game first in...
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  • the name Chase. That same year, a similar game was launched for the Bally Astrocade as Checkmate. Mattel released Snafu for the Intellivision console in...
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    programs such as the Type & Talk cartridge and the Voice module), the Bally Astrocade (using the built-in Scribbling program or the more advanced Creative...
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  • Astro Battle 2009 (category Bally Astrocade games)
    model number) is a Space Invaders clone published by Bally Manufacturing in 1979 for the Bally Astrocade arcade system. The aim is to defeat waves of aliens...
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  • of APF Imagination Machine games List of Arcadia 2001 games List of Bally Astrocade games List of BBC Bridge Companion games List of browser games List...
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    much use in console system. There were some attempts, such as the Bally Astrocade and APF-M1000 using tape drives, as well as the Disk System for the...
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  • and Japan only), NEC PC-8801, Famicom (Japan only), and Sharp X1. A Bally Astrocade version was published as Galaxian, but the name was later changed to...
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  • standard upright, cocktail, and Bally's Mini-Myte reduced size cabinet. An official port of Space Zap for the Bally Astrocade was released in 1981 as Space...
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    competitors at the time—the Atari 2600, Mattel's Intellivision and the Bally Astrocade—were its "weakest point". Of these systems, the Odyssey 2 was listed...
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    invalid pointers, which caused the strange patterns to be drawn. ... The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users...
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  • Midway Games (redirect from Bally Midway)
    Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known simply as Midway) was an American video game company that existed...
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    Studio II January 1977 RCA (U.S.) ca. 60,000 RCA 1802 8-bit (CPU) Bally Astrocade April 1978 Midway (U.S.) ? Zilog Z80 8-bit (CPU) Atari 2600 September...
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    available in the late 1970s included the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600, Bally Astrocade, and Magnavox Odyssey². The first handheld console, the Microvision...
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  • Gun Fight (category Bally Astrocade games)
    of 1976 and fifth highest arcade game of 1977. It was ported to the Bally Astrocade video game console as a built-in game in 1977 and later the Atari 8-bit...
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  • early consoles such as the Fairchild Channel F, the RCA Studio II, the Bally Astrocade, and APF-MP1000, which all contained similar illustration modes. Surround...
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    depending on the sound card used. The Fairchild Channel F System II and Bally Astrocade use DE-9 connectors for their detachable joystick as well. Both are...
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  • based on soccer) 1984 Colecovision Coleco Coleco Football 1978 Bally Astrocade Bally Bally NFL GameDay 1995 PlayStation 989 Sports 989 Sports NFL GameDay...
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    that are typically only gaming systems, like the Atari 2600 and the Bally Astrocade, even though these systems could sometimes be upgraded to resemble...
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  • Arcade Mouse Trap, Exidy, Arcade Ms. Pac-Man, Bally Midway, Arcade Muncher, Astrovision, Bally Astrocade Munchkin / KC Munchkin, Magnavox, Odyssey² Munchyman...
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  • exhaustive. The Bally Astrocade supported a horizontal blank interrupt to select the four screen colors from a palette of 256 colors. The Astrocade did not support...
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  • PlayStation 2, PSP PC, GameCube Activision Gun Fight 1975 Arcade, Bally Astrocade, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 Taito Midway First video...
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    second highest-grossing arcade game of 1976. The game was ported to the Bally Astrocade console and several computer platforms. Gun Fight's success helped...
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    the Atari Video Computer System, the Fairchild Channel F, and the Bally Astrocade, as well as seeing the introduction of the first mass produced home...
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    video game console with programmability USA Bally Consumer Products Bally Astrocade Z80 1977 TV Cassette, cartridge A video game console with programmability...
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    such as Outlaw (1978) for the Atari 2600 and Gun Fight (1978) for the Bally Astrocade were derivative of Midway's Gun Fight. These early video games featured...
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  • on the CPU. The microcode was implemented by Dan Ingalls. 1978: The Bally Astrocade home console ships with primitive blitter hardware. 1982: In addition...
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