Gameroom Tele-Pong

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.[2][3] The Gameroom Tele-Pong displays the games in black and white. The score is built in the console. It has no sound.[2] The Gameroom Tele-Pong is similar to the first Japanese video game console, Epoch's TV Tennis Electrotennis, released a year prior.

Gameroom Tele-Pong
ManufacturerEntex Industries
TypeDedicated home video game console
Release date1976[1]
Lifespan1976-?
Units soldUnknown
DisplayTV
MassUnknown
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorUnknown

There was also a version released in the United Kingdom marketed by Binatone called the TV Game Unit.[4] It had a price of £23.95.[4]

References

  1. 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, tabble tennis, handball, practice / Digital scoring, sound, skill selector, (H-V movment on table tennis)...
  2. ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong, OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
  3. Vox. "Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong is a video game console". Vox Odyssey. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  4. "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum". www.old-computers.com. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
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