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Bally Astrocade
Manufacturer
Bally Manufacturing Astrovision
Type
Home video game console
Generation
Second generation
Release date
April 1978; 46 years ago (April 1978)
Introductory price
US$299 (equivalent to $1,500 in 2023)
Discontinued
1983 (1983)
CPU
Zilog Z80 clocked at 1.789 MHz
Memory
4 KB–64 KB (with external modules) RAM 8 KB ROM
Removable storage
ROM cartridge
Graphics
160×102 or 320×204 in 4/8 colors
Sound
3 × oscillators with noise mixing and hardware global vibrato
The Bally Astrocade (also known as Bally Arcade and initially as Bally ABA-1000[1]) is a second-generation home video game console and simple computer system designed by a team at Midway, at that time the videogame division of Bally. It was originally announced as the "Bally Home Library Computer" in October 1977 and initially made available for mail order in December 1977. But due to production delays, the units were first released to stores in April 1978 and its branding changed to "Bally Professional Arcade". It was marketed only for a limited time before Bally decided to exit the market. The rights were later picked up by a third-party company, who re-released it and sold it until around 1984. The Astrocade is particularly notable for its very powerful graphics capabilities for the time of release,[citation needed] and for the difficulty in accessing those capabilities.
The BallyAstrocade (also known as Bally Arcade and initially as Bally ABA-1000) is a second-generation home video game console and simple computer system...
as the Bally Computer System. When Astrovision changed their name to Astrocade in 1982 they also changed the name of the console to the Astrocade to follow...
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2600, and Atari 5200 and renamed to The Incredible Wizard for the BallyAstrocade. The original cartridge came with a cash prize offer to the first person...
programs such as the Type & Talk cartridge and the Voice module), the BallyAstrocade (using the built-in Scribbling program or the more advanced Creative...
much use in console system. There were some attempts, such as the BallyAstrocade and APF-M1000 using tape drives, as well as the Disk System for the...
an artillery game originally written for the BallyAstrocade by Perkins Engineering and published by Bally in 1982. John Perkins wrote the game first in...
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and Japan only), NEC PC-8801, Famicom (Japan only), and Sharp X1. A BallyAstrocade version was published as Galaxian, but the name was later changed to...
standard upright, cocktail, and Bally's Mini-Myte reduced size cabinet. An official port of Space Zap for the BallyAstrocade was released in 1981 as Space...
invalid pointers, which caused the strange patterns to be drawn. ... The BallyAstrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users...
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Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer...
available in the late 1970s included the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600, BallyAstrocade, and Magnavox Odyssey². The first handheld console, the Microvision...
competitors at the time—the Atari 2600, Mattel's Intellivision and the BallyAstrocade—were its "weakest point". Of these systems, the Odyssey 2 was listed...
of 1976 and fifth highest arcade game of 1977. It was ported to the BallyAstrocade video game console as a built-in game in 1977 and later the Atari 8-bit...
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second highest-grossing arcade game of 1976. The game was ported to the BallyAstrocade console and several computer platforms. Gun Fight's success helped...
exhaustive. The BallyAstrocade supported a horizontal blank interrupt to select the four screen colors from a palette of 256 colors. The Astrocade did not support...
Gun using Intel's 8080 microprocessor, she also later worked on the BallyAstrocade. In 1978, Jamie created an early example of glitch art entitled Digital...
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