• 1976

Hardware Description

Face-Off is a dedicated console that plays two Pong variations. The games are hockey and soccer and both can be played in expert or novice mode. The paddles are controlled with joysticks on the device. Score is kept by separate LED displays on the device rather than on the screen. Approximately 18,000 Face Off units were produced and approximately 13,000 units were sold between October and December 1976. The remaining 5000 units were either sold as surplus in 1977 or went missing in a robbery of the Executive Games' Dorchester, Massachusetts plant just before the close of the 1976 Christmas season.