Professional Arcade



"Just wait till you get us home."

As the name implies, the Bally Professional Arcade was the Neo Geo of the 1970s. While it came out the same year as the Atari 2600, it was far more powerful, on par with the arcades of the time. However, it was too expensive, difficult to code for, and received about no third-party support. When Bally quit the console market, they licensed the system to Astrovision, who then re-released it as the Astrocade and kept selling it until the Great Crash of '83.

A keyboard expansion to transform it into a full-featured computer was promised, but it is uncertain if it was ever released.