1977 GRANADA® TV GAME Magnavox EP-500 4-in-1 Vid Arcade Game Console TENNIS PONG

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1977 VINTAGE GRANADA® TV GAME Magnavox® EP-500 4-in-1 Video Arcade Game Console. Complete. Plays 4 variations of the PONG® game: Tennis, Hockey, Squash, and Practice (Single Handball). (b) There are settings for Bat Size (Big or Small), Serve (Manual or Automatic), Speed (Slow or Fast) and Angle (20% or 40%). A Power (Off or On) switch is next to these switches. Battery compartment is clean, probably never used. There is a crack in the power supply housing. I couldn't figure out how to get the game video to work on a modern-day TV, and do not have an old TV to try it out on. The game switch has two screw connections at the end. Video in this listing sounds like it works perfectly. The last photo is an example of what the game would look like when playing. Original box is a little out of shape and comes with original packaging. Great condition. Everything is well packed for shipping. Information I found about this item: Granada TV Game EP-500:A console classified as "not very common" in the world of retro consoles. A good qualifier that describes it in its entirety is "mysterious", mainly due to the lack of information that refers to it. It was one of the many consoles that had its heyday at the end of the '70s with the mythical game Pong. History:Of American origin, but manufactured in Hong Kong, the Granada TV Game is a video console with very little information today. Due to the passing of the years, it has been completely forgotten, like many other consoles that lived only for the boom of the first video game in history (Pong), in the '70s. A company called E & P Electronic (HK) LTD. Located in Hong Kong, it was in charge of manufacturing the console, developing two models: the TV Game EP500, and the TV Game EP800; to later be marketed under the Granada brand in the United States. It is characterized by using the famous AY-3-8500 chipset, widely used by the consoles of the time; and like its companions, has 4 variations of Pong: tennis, hockey, squash and fronton (called "practice" on the console). This console has the typical controls (as potentiometers) that were used to play Pong incorporated into the body of the console, and also has two separate controls, which are connected to each side of it. The console consists of 5 switches on the front that correspond to options such as regulating the speed of the ball (SPEED), the angle (ANGLE), the size of the bars (BAR), manual or automatic game mode (SERVER), and turning it on (POWER). It also has a button on the top of the console that allows the reset (RESET) of the console. It is also worth mentioning that the Granada TV Game has a direct tender from Magnavox (founding company of the Pong game), which makes it different from the thousands of companies that dedicated themselves to this field in those years. Data sheet:Granada TV GAME EP-500BrandGrenadeModelTV Game EP-500GenerationFirstRelease year1977Country of originUSAProcessor – CPUAY-3-8500Bits–RAM–Videoblack and whiteSoundbuilt-in monkeyVoltageDC 7.5v 500mA with center positive or 5 batteries type C (or UM2) of 1.5vTicketsElectric powerDeparturesRF with built-in cableGame supportincluded in memorylaunch price$15 USDSold units–Best selling video game–PredecessorDoes not haveSuccessorTV Game EP-800 Models:Granada launched two models that included the pong game on the market: the EP-500 and the EP-800, which are exactly the same in terms of playability. For the rest, they only differ in the structure of their appearance. Both are from 1977. TV Game models from GranadaTV Game EP-500TV Game EP-800 Accessories:The TV Game includes separate controls, with the basic control to play pong: the already so characteristic potentiometers. In total, the console was sold with two joysticks, which are connected to each side by two plush, for the player's comfort, called Remote Control. Facts and curiosities:A curious fact is that the same EP-500 model can be found in other brands such as Mecca, Nobility, Windsor and E & P Electronic itself; which leads to deduce that this last manufacturing company from Hong Kong sold the model to different brands located abroad, changing only the impression of the console casing referring to the marketing brand. Also, it is strange to note that the packaging is quite similar as well.

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