Bally Professional Arcade (1978)

the Bally Professional Arcade released in 1978, was a video game maker Bally's only entry into the home console market, complete with typical late 1970's woodland grain. The little console from the 70's. it enjoyed some rebirths analogous to the Fairchild VES Channel F and significant home brew/customer following.

In 1972, Bally missed an early item into video games, by telling one Mr. Nolan Bushnell they were not interested in his Pong game. With Pong early the video game arcade revolution, by 1975 Bally decided to make a video game division named Midway (termed Bally/Midway) for the intent of entering this market.

It was decided to base the new console around the Zilog Z-80 microprocessor. A processor making its way into an arcade games and becoming the choosen processor of wealth in the still developement microcomputer progress. The graphics system was to have an advanced display system that known as bit mapped graphics. In pixel on the screen mapped to a corresponding memory.