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Video 2400

Dedicated Console published 49 years ago by Interton Electronic

Not listed in MAME yet

Video 2400 © 1975 Interton Electronic.

Second Pong console from Interton.

BUILT IN GAMES: Tennis, Hockey, Practice, Squash.

TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.
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CPU: AY-3-8500 from General Instruments
COLORS: Black & white
SOUND: Built-in speaker

TRIVIA

This system is like the Video 3000 system but with paddles and without the gun option. It's very compact compared to the larger Video 2800 or Video 3000 systems.

It's based on the AY-3-8500 chip from General Instruments. It was designed to be sold worldwide as there are no text labels but only logical pictograms. The Thomson JV1T for example, is an example of rebadged Video 2400 system for foreign markets (France here).

The main particularity of the system is that despite the fact that it uses a common AY-3-8500 GI chipset, if offers 5 games, one more than what the chip can normally do. The bonus game is a 5 paddles soccer game (in fact 2 paddles for left player and 3 for right one). It is a non-documented game. It is normaly possible to play it on any pong system (GI chipset powered) if you can manage to not select any game (game switch must not indicate any game). Some systems, like the Interton Video 2400 can play this game natively though.