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Poppy TVG-4

There are very less or no information about the game consoles from the manufacturer Poppy. The game console with the designation TVG-4 was mainly sold in Germany from 1978. Some of Poppy's devices were also marketed under other names.
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The console itself offered only 4 games, tennis, soccer, squash and pelota. This is also a console that ran on the AY-3-8500 pong chip developed by Genaral Instruments. In the late 1970s, many consoles were sold around the world that had exactly this chip in them, so the consoles always offered pretty much the same games. The games were shown in black and white. Back in 1976, Atari released a much better console with games displayed in color and sound coming directly from the TV, not like the Poppy console which played sound from a built-in speaker. In addition to the on/off switch, there were various switches for e.g. faster play or the racket could also be set to small, etc...

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