The Bandai Super Vision 8000 is a video game console

Video game console

A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...

 released by Bandai

Bandai

is a Japanese toy making and video game company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third-largest producer of toys . Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs...

 in 1979 belonging to the second generation. The console can be directly connected to a TV.

This console was the last of the Bandai TV Jack console series but was completely different than the other consoles of the series. The Super Vision 8000 had a central CPU. The other consoles belonged to the first generation: they didn't feature a microprocessor

Microprocessor

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, and were based on custom codeless state machine computers

Finite state machine

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 consisting of discrete logic

Logic gate

A logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, that is, it performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has for instance zero rise time and...

 circuits comprising each element of the game itself (Pong

Pong

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-style console).

Technical specifications

• the CPU was an 8-bit NEC D780C  (Z80 clone), running at 3.58 MHz
  Hertz
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• 256 pixel
  Pixel
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   x 192 with 16 colors
• the audio chip was a General Instrument AY-3-8910
  General Instrument AY-3-8910
  The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice Programmable Sound Generator designed by General Instrument, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series of 8-bit microcomputers...
  
  . Three channel sound, with one noise generator
• selling price in Japan: 59,800 Yen

Games

All seven games released for the console have been developed by Bandai Electronics and sold since 1979.

• Missile Vader
• Space Fire
• Othello
• Gun Professional
• PacPacBird
• Submarine
• Beam Galaxian

External links

• The Video Game Console Library. You can view some images of the console