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Gameroom Tele-Pong

Home video game console

Home video game console

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manufacturerEntex Industries
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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. It had a price of US$60. 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.

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).

There was also a version released in the United Kingdom marketed by Binatone called the TV Game Unit. It had a price of £23.95.

References

References

  1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tele-Pong+Entex&pg=PA91 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)...''
  2. [https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1041&st=3 ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong], OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
  3. Vox. "Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong is a video game console".
  4. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tele-Pong+Entex&pg=PA91 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)...''
  5. (August 2024{{Unreliable source?). (January 2026)
  6. "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum".
  7. (2023-06-01). "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum".
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