Hi there! I've found this old relique at the flea market this morning for about 10 US $. Although the brand name isn't printed on the console, I'm pretty sure it's Soundic's SD-05 (same layout, even the game I bought looks the same). This console was released over the late 70's and early 80's and 6 Pong-like games were ever released for it. I have taken a picture of it with my mobile phone - look below: Gamepads can be taken out from the console so that you can use it from a distance of ~40 cm. If I'm not wrong, this kind of videogame systems had their processors inside the game's cartridge and the console had to colorize it, so that you'd get a 6 colour display! The only sellers I've seen selling this ask for a relative big amount of money for them (10$ for each game and even 80$ for a pack with the console and 4 games). I have to do some more research though. Greetings!
These things are quite common being part of the PC-50x family. The "console" is basiclly nothing more then the controllers, buttons, PSU and RF encoder with each cartridge being a General Instruments AY-3-8(6/7/8)xx chip which has a selection of games. The chips output colour as there are NTSC / PAL versions of the chips. Most of these were made in Hong Kong, with a large number of resllers including Soundic, Hanimex, ITMC, Grandstand selling them in various parts of Europe. The cartridges are compatable across systems. You can find more information on these systems here http://www.pong-story.com/sd050.htm http://www.pong-story.com/sd_other.htm http://www.pong-story.com/pc-50x.htm
