conic vintage system

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this is new to my eyes can anybody tell me what this is

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this is new to my eyes can anybody tell me what this is

There are tons of systems that used cartridges that contained chips made by GI -- who made "pong-on-a-chip" chips found in many pong machines -- so that it was kind of halfway betwee pong and a true programmable system. Because GI only produced ~10 different chips, there's definitely a limit on these systems. Most only have 7 games listed in their catalog, but I'm not sure how often all 7 were actually released.

GI also made a couple "card game" chips, and I know of at least one system that used cartridges with them, but I've yet to see a system that played the pong/etc chips and the card game chips; it's possible they weren't entirely compatible?

You can find some info at http://www.pong-story.com, though right now I'm not sure what links to follow. There were also similar systems by Philips and others, using other chips, that should be on that page too.