Gameroom Tele-Pong
Template:Short description Template:Infobox information appliance The Gameroom Tele-Pong (sometimes also called Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong or ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong) is a dedicated first-generation home video game console developed, published and marketed by Entex Industries starting in 1976.[1][2] It had a price of US$60.[3] The Gameroom Tele-Pong displays the games in black and white. The score is built in the console. It does have sound. The Gameroom Tele-Pong is similar to the first Japanese video game console, Epoch's TV Tennis Electrotennis, released a year prior.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The console does not contain a central CPU but uses 8 discrete SN74LS00 chips. It is only battery-operated (1.5V "C" cell x 4).[4]
There was also a version released in the United Kingdom marketed by Binatone called the TV Game Unit.[5] It had a price of £23.95.[6]
References
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- ↑ ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong, OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
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- ↑ TV games turn your set into a sports arena, By William J. Hawkins, Popular Science, Nov 1976, Page 91, Table: ...Entex / Tele-Pong / $60 / Tennis, table tennis, handball, practice / Digital scoring, sound, skill selector, (H-V movement on table tennis)...
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External links
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- Gameroom Tele-Pong at www.old-computers.com
- Gameroom Tele-Pong on MobyGames