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Coleco Telstar series

The Coleco Telstar brand is a series of dedicated first-generation home video game consoles produced, released and marketed by Coleco from 1976 to 1978. Starting with Coleco Telstar Pong clone based video game console on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 chip in 1976,[1] there were 14 consoles released in the Coleco Telstar series. About one million units of the first model called Coleco Telstar were sold.[2]

The large product lineup and the impending fading out of the Pong machines led Coleco to face near-bankruptcy in 1980.[3]

Model comparison

References

  1. ^ "The Next Generation 1996 Lexicon A to Z: Coleco". Next Generation. No. 15. Imagine Media. March 1996. p. 31.
  2. ^ Herman, Leonard (1997). Phoenix: the fall & rise of videogames (2nd ed.). Union, NJ: Rolenta Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-9643848-2-5. Retrieved 16 February 2012. Like Pong, Telstar could only play video tennis but it retailed at an inexpensive $50 that made it attractive to most families that were on a budget. Coleco managed to sell over a million units that year.
  3. ^ "Coleco Industries. -ColecoVision History". colecovision.dk. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ a b c d e f Kaplan, Deeny, ed. (Winter 1978). "The Video Games". Video (Buyer's Guide). Vol. 1, no. 1. Reese Communications. pp. 17–30. ISSN 0147-8907.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Kaplan, Deeny, ed. (Winter 1979). "Video Games". Video (Buyer's Guide). Vol. 2, no. 1. Reese Communications. pp. 33–42. ISSN 0147-8907.

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