The Bildschirmspiel 01 (BSS 01) is the only game console that was developed and manufactured in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

A successor device with more game options and additional colored image output did not pass the prototype stage.

In the 1980s, video games in East Germany were to introduce children and young people to technology and show that the GDR was a progressive country.

[1][2][3] The BSS 01 was manufactured between 1979[4] and 1981[5] by the to the Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt belonging VEB Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder)[6][7][8] as a part of the Konsumgüterproduktion.

The basis for this was the Pong integrated circuit AY-3-8500,[9] imported by American company General Instrument from the Nichtsozialistisches Wirtschaftsgebiet (NSW).

[13] In the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, you can play on an old chair in the style of the 1980s on a tube TV with the BSS 01.

[16] If none of the game selection buttons is pressed when the power is off and the console is then switched on, the activated, but often hidden, handicapped version of soccer, which is included in the AY-3-8500-7 chip, is activated, in which the right player directly hits another racket right striker, which makes the game more difficult for the left player.