5/27/2023 0 Comments Bally astrocade bios![]() In 1979 Bally grew less interested in the arcade market and decided to sell off their Consumer Products Division, including development and production of the game console.Īt about the same time a 3rd party group had been unsuccessfully attempting to bring their own console design to market as the Astrovision. In this form it sold mostly at computer stores and had little retail exposure (unlike the Atari VCS). Delays in the production meant none of the units actually shipped until 1978, and by this time the machine had been renamed the Bally Professional Arcade. Originally referred to as the Bally Home Library Computer, it was released in 1977 but available only through mail order. The system Nutting delivered was used in most of Midway's classic arcade games of the era, including Gorf and Wizard of Wor. In the late 1970s Midway contracted Dave Nutting Associates to design a video display chip that could be used in all of their videogame systems, from standup arcade games, to a home computer system.
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