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TV Tennis, Anyone?

December 17, 2009

Go back to 1975 and the dawn of the home-video-game era, and build a Pong clone with this kit (bring your own soldering iron). It features modern A/V outputs so you can hook it up to a flat-screen TV.

Credit: Joshua Scott

Product: Classic TV game

Cost: $21.80

Availability: Now

Source: vellemanusa.com

Company: Velleman

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