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MBO Schmidt & Niederleitner GmbH & Co. KG, a german manufacturer for measuring systems and small electronic items also tried to get their share of the videogame market. The Teleball Cassette I has ten small buttons, horizontaly arranged, used to select the different games offered by the inserted cartridge. The playing options are activated by the several switches. It has a springy protection lid for the cartridge slot.

It uses joysticks, detachable and connected to the system through connectors placed on each side. According to the manual it is capable to display 4 colors: green, white, yellow and blue. On the box is a game mentioned that makes use of a lightgun therefor I suggest, that the MBO I is capable to handle a lightgun.

The cartridge released are the classic ones for these systems using cartridges based on General Instrument chips: In these chipsets were "ready to run" games and pong manufacturers had almost only to put these chipsets into their system cases to make them work !

This system was also marketed as

• Palladium - Tele-Cassetten-Game
• Hanimex - Optim 600

Other MBO Pong systems in our collection:

• MBO - teleball
• MBO - Tele-ball VII

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Museums Collection

Our collection includes: Console, original shipping box (slightly torn due to age and former storage), detachable external joysticks, powersupply (AC/DC 9 volt), modules: 610 (Pong) and 765 (Race Games)

The console is tested, the controllers work reliable. The original PSU is defect.

Any informations, inputs, contributions, descriptions or anything related to this Pong console will be greatly appreciated! Please contact us.

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