October 1978 · Computer or hardware
APF-MP1000 (1978)
APF's Motorola 6800 console that became part of the Imagination Machine computer family.
It shipped with Rocket Patrol built in and launched with six cartridges. Its later Imagination Machine add-on turned it into a personal computer.
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Facts
- Date
- October 1978
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Home console
- Maker or publisher
- APF Electronics
- CPU
- Motorola 6800 @ 0.895 MHz
- RAM
- 1 KB
- Graphics
- 256x192, 8 colors
- Units sold
- about 50,000+
- Generation
- 2nd
- First sold in
- North America
- Media
- ROM cartridge
- Notable games
- Rocket Patrol; Catena; Space Destroyers; Baseball
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- Atari 2600 (VCS) (rival, 1977)
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