Rare console sold in New Zealand by Grandstand Leisure NZ Ltd. and based on the Philips Signetics hardware platform and the 2637 chipset. Variants of the systems were sold worldwide under many different brands: Emerson Arcadia (worldwide), Advision Home Arcade (France), Bandai Arcadia (Japan), GiG Electronics Leonardo (Italy), Hanimex HMG-2650, Leisure-Dynamics Leisure-Vision (USA), Intercord XL 2000 system, Eduscho / Tchibo Tele-Fever, Cosmos, Schmidt TVG 2000 (Germany)... Read more on: Old Computers.
The Grandstand Video Master Colour Computer Game is almost indentical to the Orbit Electronics UVI Compu-Game. However the UVI Compu-Game has control paddles that could also be found with the Trakton (Australia, NZ), Palladium, HGS Mr. Altus, Polybrain (Germany) Video Computer Game while the Video Master uses the control paddles of the
MPT-03 systems
such as the Poppy, Robdajet (Germany), the Intelligent Game (USA), the Radialva, Prestige, Principal (France), Rowtron (UK) Tempest (Australia), Soundic (Finland and other countries) and Tryom (Sweden ?).
A couple of pictures to compare both systems:
Thanks to Clinton Rowe for the nice pictures.
Please visit his wonderful "The Retrowe Museum
" website and learn more about this interesting system!
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