Langile PCG System

The Langile PCG was a portable handheld radio player and game console with 20 ATBW Games and 10 others including Pong, Brick-Breaker, etc.. The game console was released on March 15, 1973 and also included 20 songs on small vinyl records including Merry Oldsmobile, Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy, and other songs from the 1900's decade (20 years before Langile Corporation existed and 25 years before ATBW Label Networks did).

The discs, due to their small portable size, were able to fit in slightly tighter areas than a conventional one can. The music played on the disc is 8 bit and uses a voice synthesizer for vocals, which was very hard to do considering this system was made in the 1970's, well before this technology was common, plus the sound compared to that of other game consoles like this is also high-fidelity even though this music is in low quality. These discs were partly manufactured by MCA, which at the time owned Universal Studios, most of the other parts were made by Langile Corporation. Langile Corporation initially made these discs themselves, but another version of this system by MCA was also around during this time, but excluding the ATBW Games initially made by Langile Corporation, making that one only a radio player, and ran from 1974 to 1976.

History
The PCG was conceived by Eric Langile in 1971 as a radio, but also a game console, as this was one of the earliest game consoles ever made, well before the A16 or even the A8 systems, both from the following decade. Langile then released it in 1973 after taking two years to develop, and would eventually sell this until 1977, lasting for 4 years. The system was included with all 30 games released on it, which is low compared to what it was like during the 1990's with a quantity of over 900. The system also had a 5 inch CRT that is black and white for the first two years, but eventually started releasing them with color in 1975 for its last few years, and the games were 4bit (significantly lower graphics than even the ATBW A8 a decade later).

Sometime in 1974, MCA eventually made a version of it that was exclusively a radio, which would be made until 1976, though this version is rare and there is still not enough evidence to this day suggesting this was ever released. It had the same features as the original one otherwise (excluding the aperture grille CRT the original one had).

Benefits
Due to the CRT TV being an Aperture Grille like that of the ATBW A-Tron, which Langile Corporation was manufacturing at the time, it was able to outperform other competitors. Competitors typically used the conventional shadow mask tube, which in turn lacked the quality the Aperture Grille had over it, as unlike the typical shadow mask, the Aperture Grille lined pictures vertically and horizontally flat, as where the shadow mask would scatter in all directions. This made the PCG outrun the competition.

Another advantage was that it also didn't use cheap speakers. The speakers in the PCG were stereo (competitors had typically only one and/or were mono only), which allowed clearer sound quality than its competitors. It was also able to last longer than the competition because of its D battery usage, which could last 4 to 5 hours, while competitors used C, which would wear out in as little as 3 hours. This made it a choice for people to use the PCG over others' due to its power.

The record discs and games always came in covers for those to find them in order to prevent them from losing them. Competitors used different covers that could easily be lost. It was also narrower in width than its other competitors, which allowed it to be placed in narrower locations.

Drawbacks
Unfortunately, this system did not have the proper functionalities that similar systems of that time had at the time. Most used a floppy disk to play music in this nature. However, the PCG instead used vinyl records that is 8 inches big and while they have benefits over floppy disks, which were becoming new at the time, which doesn't get erased by a magnet and can hold waves in easily than a floppy, it's design was considerably dull and it can still get easily damaged like the original vinyl records from the 1900s. These discs, unlike floppies, had lower quality of sound and were immensely dull and obsolete compared to audiocassettes and floppy disks used by competitors of the time that made similar devices to the PCG.

Considering this being portable and running on batteries, the system would always need batteries in order to be powered on without wall power. The system was powered by 4 D batteries, which are expensive (especially in the case of quality ones) and would drain them within around 4 to 5 hours. Most used C batteries for the time, but Eric Langile wanted D batteries as they can give out more current than a C battery, which solved the problem of short time that competitors had.

Another problem is considering the small CRT TV in this thing was always an Aperture Grille (like those from the ATBW A-Tron), the system was even heavier than competitors, even with a 5 inch tube. The MCA version used a shadow mask, which is lighter than the Aperture Grille design used in the Langile version. The Aperture Grille allowed better color and quality than the shadow mask tube competitors used for similar sets, but because of stricter requirements needed for it to work properly, the glass had to be made thicker in order for the tube to be able to withstand itself when producing images from the phosphors it had. Most competitors did not have to worry about this problem, as they used the shadow mask, which is far easier to create and also lighter than the Aperture Grille used in the PCG, but lacked the quality that would be seen in the Aperture Grille tube.

MCA Version
The MCA version of the PCG shared many of the same parts the one that Langile Corporation manufactured, but excluded the ATBW games and the Aperture Grille tube, and was also cheaper at $80.00 dollars instead of the staggering $120.00 for the original one by Langile Corporation.

After MCA ceased operations in 1996, the model is now owned and fully controlled by Langile Corporation and was passed over to Langile Consumer Branding in 2003 even though the set wasn't made since 1977, but had the rights to remake replacement parts. The model is now owned by Langile Consumer Holdings since 2013, which remakes parts for these sets, both the Langile and MCA versions.