The T.V. Game

"teevee game" has the same energy to it as "EeePeeCee"

This must be what Mike Butters was talking about in Pepsiman when he delivered the classic line, "Pepsi for T.V. Game!"

James is next level with two handed pong!

This seems to be an original version of one Lasonic 2000 TV Game. The lasonic 2000 was a french pong machine, and it is exactly what you have there. The interesting part is that the motherboard of the Lasonic 2000 has the words "TV game IEE-100" on it. It's really strange to see one saying IEE and Tee Vee Game on the label since no such console I can find exists. I truly think it might just be a prototype Lasonic 2000. Update: unsure if this is a whitelabel product made by IEE and distributed by Lasonic later on, but there are at least two, maybe three consoles with this name and 2 of the three are lasonic branded. Two of them might also just be the same console misnamed on the internet but it's hard to tell. Anyways the lasonic that seems would have made this product does not seem to have existed until 12 years after this product was branded as Lasonic. I am very confused and if anyone can figure it out I'd love the answer.

The "IEE" logo looks like a bootleg version of the IBM and ITT logos smashed together. I do like how all these pong consoles show how far back the idea of building a bunch of different no-name devices off a single chip and reference design goes (though arguably this concept can be traced back to the standardized American radio designs from the 1930s).

I love this channel because it reveals all these fascinatingly horrible details of playing retro games and whatnot, and I don't even have to subject myself to playing these agonizingly boring games to witness it.

"There was like 9,000,000 fucking Pong consoles!" - James Rolfe, 2010

I cannot believe that I have been fooled for years, I always thought TV meant television, and not Tee Vee. So glad that I get proper education on this channel.

James just casually pulling out one of the oldest video game consoles known to man lol E: Holy shit the fact that the board was hand-soldered is so cool to me, idk why, but it is.

As a youngin I love seeing the glimpses into the past, it's different, and that fascinates me

A LOT of electronics were hand made at the time. A LOT. It was being phased out by the mid 70s, but there was little automation in electronics before that. Most TVs made before 1970 were hand wired and hand soldered. Same with radios.

There's nothing like the directly coupled feeling of moving the bat on the screen with a potentiometer like in these games; gaming has come an awfully long way but the incredibly low latency and smoothness inherent in the simple design is an experience that cannot be replicated.

"it's doing a lot of weird things when I'm touching this knob." - James

man, those visual glitches are honestly super cool looking. I really want to try and recreate it in an animation or something

I love these old Pong clones, I have a few from "Rally IV" to "TV Fun" and its quaint to see how much imagination you needed just to play the game and incredible how far we have come. You look at Balders Gate 3 and have to think... this in some way is here because of stuff like "T.V. Game"

proffesional tv gamer

That's a nice cat. Also, I swear this thing looks like something I'd expect to see on Wish or Aliexpress that was made to capitalize on nostalgia for ancient Pong consoles, especially when I see that generic packaging.

I love this channel an absolute gem. Thank you fellow James your content is delightful

I love the additional Cat at the end. It really makes you think.

The same unit was sold as the "Lasonic 2000" - which there's a relatively decent amount of information about online. Same box, but it said "Lasonic 2000 T.V Game" instead - With the additional text added by a sticker. Same design, but the text is in French. Same games. Same everything.