Bally Computer System

In 1980, deciding to focus on casino and stand-alone video arcade machines, Bally sold their Consumer Products Division to AstroVision, Inc., a Columbus-based company that controls E. F. Johnson, the CB two-way radio manufacturer. Johnson had been constructing the Bally motherboard for some time under subcontract. The system is relaunched as the Bally Computer System.

At the outset of 1982, AstroVision's right to use the Bally trademark expired, so they changed the company name to Astrocade. The computer system was also renamed as the Astrocade.


For more info see the entry of Bally Professional Arcade.