Talk:Bally Astrocade

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Actually, the group that bought the Bally Professional Arcade from Bally was not formed from a group of users. Known at first as Astrovision, the group had already been involved in producing another video game system that had failed to mature. The buyer that had brought the Bally Professional Arcade into Montgomery Ward put the groups together when he learned that Bally was interested in selling the home video game system. The company name was changed from Astrovision to Astrocade shortly after the purchase took place.

The reason for the confusion is that users did play a vital role in spreading the word about the system, including having key users attend the Consumer Electronic Shows to work as demonstrators.

While Dave Nutting's group may have built several of the Zgrass 'add-under' modules, only two working versions were delivered to Astrocade. The language was marvelous and it's a shame that they were never able to get the add-under into production.