Gameroom Tele-Pong Explained

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]} It had a price of US$60.^[4] The Gameroom Tele-Pong displays the games in black and white. The score is built in the console. It has no 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 dicscrete SN74LS00 chips. It is only battery-operated (1.5V "C" cell x 4).^[5]

There was also a version released in the United Kingdom marketed by Binatone called the TV Game Unit.^[6] It had a price of £23.95.^[7]

External links

• (Feb 18, 2015. By Sly DC.)
• Gameroom Tele-Pong at www.old-computers.com
• Gameroom Tele-Pong on MobyGames

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tele-Pong+Entex&pg=PA91 TV games turn your set into a sports arena
2. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1041&st=3 ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong
3. Web site: Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong is a video game console. Vox. Vox Odyssey. en. 2019-06-17.
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tele-Pong+Entex&pg=PA91 TV games turn your set into a sports arena
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201075922/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/forum.asp?c=1041&st=1
6. Web site: OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum. www.old-computers.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201075922/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1041 . 2023-02-01 .
7. Web site: 2023-06-01 . OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum . 2024-09-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601055153/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=1040 . 2023-06-01 .