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VEB (RFT) TV Spiel Bildschirmspiel BSS 01 Modification/Test Unit ?

This was the only Pong system that was produced and sold in the GDR (East Germany). Though only one model was produced, it was sold with slight colour modifications: knobs could be either orange, red, yellow or black. The housing was light grey or black. The system was sold under the RFT or VEB (Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt-Oder) "brand".
VEB stands for "Volkseigener Betrieb" which could be translated as "People's own production plant" - remember GDR was a communist ruled country! The system is not too rare but it is almost impossible to find a boxed speciment. Another interesting detail is, that old sales slips that were found along with few of these systems clearly state that these systems were sold from 1982-85 which is very late for a common GI AY 8500 chip based system. That means that West Germans started to enjoy the Commodore C-64 while East Germans started to explore Pong systems...

The pictured system is a modificated system with a built in LED light that alights when the ball is hit.
It is unclear why this system was modified, maybe it was a sort of test console.

Thanks to Elke Hesse & Marco Liebeskind for letting us have this rare speciment!

Marco tells us in his auction's description "Offered here is a once highly sought after and extremely expensive system in former GDR if you consider it's original price of 550 GDR Marks - almost a month's income of an employee. The picture system once found it's way to our pre-christmas table of presents only with the help of our good connections. It was produced at "Halbleiterwerk" Frankfurt/Oder in the production facility for consume goods. When the wall came down I bought me a new sealed one for 20 DM cause no one was interested in games like this anymore. This lack of interest lead to the decline of many valuable East-German companies like for example Simson / Suhl"

Besides this interesting find Jens Brinkmann sent us these fantastic scans taken from several old GDR magazines.

Radio Fernsehen Elektronik 08/1980 (Pages 511 & 512)

Radio Fernsehen Elektronik 08/1982 (Page 523)

Funkamateur 01/1986 (Page 38)


The "Stromlaufplan" which means schematic.


The warranty folder - please note date of sale and the small glued on paper showing the serial number of this unit.


The folder for VEB Service addresses.


Here we added our scans of the Bildschirmspiel BSS-01 manual for download (Please click on thumbnail to start download):

This one was added to our catalog on Sunday 13 December, 2009.

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