Although the Magnagvox Odyssey was released in Europe between 1973 and 1975, Philips released the Tele-Spiel (Tele-Game in german), model ES 2201 in late 1975.

The system has a blue rectangular case and was one of the first PONG systems that used game cartridges. Like the Magnavox Odyssey 100, there is no on-screen scoring, hence the presence of cursors on the system case to manually record the scores. The controllers use uncommon linear potentiometers (usually, rotative models would be used).

In France, this system was initally at the price of 400F (that would be around 60 euros in 1975), but its expensive price did not make it successful. It is rumored that it was imported in France by CEJI Arbois. The system is made of semi-analog circuits: it only discrete components including seven basic integrated circuits (CMOS type).

In addition to the Tennis cartridge supplied with the system, several others were available separately at the price of 45F each. Each cartridge contains a small electronic board with discrete components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, diodes, etc.) and no integrated circuits. Thus, each cartridge enables the necessary graphics generators, set the shape of these graphics (square, rectangle, vertical line, etc.) and manage various events such as collisions. Amazingly, the controllers plug to the cartridge instead of the system.

Another smart feature of this game is the use of adjustable video frequency, allowing to select a free channel on the TV set and ajust the frequency on the game until a clear picture appears on the screen.

Some companies even advertised the game through contests (see the HIT scan).

Close-up on the game box showing elementary graphics in Tennis.