1981 · Computer or hardware
Entex Select-A-Game (1981)
A tabletop/handheld console with a VFD screen and static overlays, with a microprocessor in each cartridge.
Released in 1981 with Space Invader 2 bundled, it had no CPU of its own. Titles included Basketball 3, Football 4, Pinball and Baseball 4. Pacman 2 was pulled after Coleco sued over handheld Pac-Man rights. Entex dropped it in 1982 for the Adventure Vision. The concept resembled Milton Bradley's Microvision.
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Facts
- Date
- 1981
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Handheld console
- Maker or publisher
- Entex
- Graphics
- 7x16 red/blue VFD dot array
- Media
- cartridge with CPU
- Generation
- 2nd
- First sold in
- United States
- Notable games
- Space Invader 2; Basketball 3; Pacman 2
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Related
- Microvision (rival, 1979)
- Entex Adventure Vision (successor, 1982)
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