Television Tennis

The Television Tennis is a Pong variant released in 1975 by Executive Games, Inc. Two players bounce a ball around the screen with their paddles. The player scores when the ball hits the other side of the screen. The game also features a single player practice mode where one side of the field has a paddle that spans the entire height of the screen. Electronic Television Tennis was the third American home video game system. It passed the FCC tests only a month after Atari Pong and began selling in the fall of 1975. Executive Games continued to sell Television Tennis until October 1976. Despite being a small company, Executive Games managed to sell approximately 65,000 Television Tennis games during that time (Magnavox produced 140,000 Odyssey units in 1972, and only around 60,000 in 1975).