1977 · Computer or hardware
Coleco Telstar Arcade (1977)
A triangular dedicated console with a different control on each side: steering wheel, light gun and paddles.
Released in 1977 as the most advanced Telstar, it used four triangular cartridges, each holding three games, for 12 games in all (such as Road Race, Quickdraw and Naval Battle). Players rotated the console to the side that fit the cartridge. It used MOS MPS-7600 microcontroller chips with 512 words of ROM each.
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Facts
- Date
- 1977
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Dedicated console
- Maker or publisher
- Coleco
- CPU
- MOS MPS-7600 microcontroller
- Media
- triangular cartridge
- Generation
- 2nd
- First sold in
- North America, Europe, Japan
- Notable games
- Road Race; Quickdraw; Naval Battle
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- Coleco Telstar (predecessor, 1976)
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