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.

Thanks for these notes! Maury 22:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image and fair use

I'll simply quote the template:

An image of an object is not reasonably replaceable if:

• It is not located where the general public has access to it, or where photography is not regularly permitted.
• It is a product that has not yet been released to the market, or is sold only in extremely limited quantities, or has been off the market for a long enough period of time that only limited quantities exist.

The Astrocade clearly falls into the later category. I'm sure there are remaining owners, and this image appears to be taken by one of them, but until they can be contacted and donate a free version, there's little reason to suggest this one should be removed. Maury 22:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)