June 1, 1977 · Computer or hardware
Nintendo Color TV-Game 6 (1977)
Nintendo's first video game system, a Pong-style dedicated console built with Mitsubishi.
The Color TV-Game 15 followed a week later, then Racing 112 (1978) and Block Kuzushi (1979), together selling three million. Its aggressively low pricing created Nintendo's philosophy of selling consoles at a profit and led to the Famicom.
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Facts
- Date
- June 1, 1977
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Dedicated console
- Maker or publisher
- Nintendo
- Media
- Built-in 6 Pong variants
- Units sold
- 1 million (Model 6)
- Generation
- 1st
- First sold in
- Japan
- Notable games
- Pong variants
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Related
- Nintendo Famicom (Japan) (successor, 1983)
- Home Pong (rival, 1975)
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