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| | Coleco Telstar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This was the very first game to use the AY-3-8500 chip. | | | Telstar Combat - (model 6065, 1977) Four variations on Kee Games' Tank, four fixed joysticks (two per player), uses a General Instruments AY-3-8700 Tank chip. | | | Telstar Marksman - (model 6136, 1978) Four PONG variants and two gun games in color, larger light gun with removable stock, fixed paddles, uses AY-3-8512 chip. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar
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| | Pong-Story : Coleco Telstar systems |
| | "Telstar", Coleco's first video game system, was released in 1976 and played only three games with three difficulty levels. | | | The only differences between the Coleco "pong" systems were the number of games, the way the difficulty levels were used, and the type of pictured (color or black and white). | | | The AY-3-8500 chip played six games with more difficulty levels, and the games could also be played in color. |
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| | Coleco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While the system was quite popular, Coleco hedged their bet on videogames by introducing a line of game cartridges for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision. | | | When the video game business began to implode in 1983, it seemed clear that video games were being replaced by home computers. | | | Dozens of companies were introducing game systems that year after Atari's successful Pong console. |
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| | Classic Consoles |
| | Telstar Combat was one of Coleco's attempts to break away from the Pong-clone video game rut. | | | Their early Telstar line of Pong clones was very successful in the 70s but, as the 80s approached, their video game business dwindled. | | | After Atari's success with their home version of Pong Coleco, a leather manufacturing company that had shifted their focus to vacu-formed plastic toys in the 50s and 60s, decided to jump on the home video game bandwagon. |
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http://www.davesclassicarcade.com/consoles.html
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| | Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - The Coleco Story by Ralph Baer |
| | The the voice-over would then call for some simple button pushing by the child; the tape player would be paused by the Apple acting as a 2600 until the little game was over; then tape-player resumed playing while the next segment of the story-line would come on-screen, complete with voice-over and some music. | | | As I have reported elsewhere in the story of "How Video Games Invaded the Home TV Set", Magnavox' original Odyssey ITL100 home game was first announced to the public in May of 1972. | | | Thus Coleco became GI's first and preferred customer for the AY3-8500, a chip around which millions of off-shore games were built in Hong-Kong, Taiwan and in Europe- on all of which Sanders and Magnavox collected royalties, thank you very much! |
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http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Ralph_Baers_Coleco_Story.html
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| | Good Deal Games - Interview: Ralph Baer |
| | I first saw a Coleco KID-VID production unit at the same CES where ADAM was intoduced and was appalled by their choice of a black, ugly shoe-box-type tape player instead of the cute kiddie-player I had demonstrated. | | | Briefly, I had come up with the concept of controlling an audio-tape-player with the micro-processor in the Atari 2600 console to provide a means for pre-schoolers to play simple video games. | | | MT> You licensed Coleco the KID-VID unit, a device which during an appropriate point in a game, would start a tape recorder playing a sound effect or story narration, for use w/ the Atari 2600. |
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http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_baer.html
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |
| | The Telstar Arcade is maybe one of the most interesting systems made by Coleco, and also the most advanced PONG system released in America, although it played non-PONG games. | | | Made in a triangular case, the system could play three types of games, each being played on one of the three sides of the case. | | | Very few systems offering that type of games were released at this time, and the games were only played using rotary controllers or some sort of joysticks. |
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=661
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| | If the founding of Atari is monument to the entrepreneurial spirit, then the entry of Coleco into the video game field is a tribute to the positive power of corporate drift. | | | Among companies pulled into the home video game market by Telstar's performance was Atari. | | | The General Instruments AY38500 chip, for example, could carry enough program instructions to play four ball-and-paddle or two target video games. |
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| | VideoGames Collect |
| | Coleco (a contraction of COnneticut LEather COmpany) was the first company to introduce a "dedicated chip" home video game system, with the Telstar Arcade in 1976. | | | With the introduction of units with games stored on interchangeable cartridges, Fairchild and then Atari had eliminated any remaining market for the simple pong games. | | | But within a year, 75 other manufacturers had introduced similar units, and combined with with production snags, a shortage of chips, and a push towards hand held games, Coleco skirted with disaster. |
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| | Video Game History Information- British Encyclopedia Online |
| | The success of Pong sparked hundreds of clone games, including the Coleco Telstar, which went on to be a success in its own right, with over a dozen models. | | | It wasn't until Atari's home version of Pong (at first under the Sears Tele-Games label) in Christmas of 1975 that home video games really took off. |
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http://www.british-encyclopedia.com/video-game-history-information.html
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |
| | The "World of Video Sports" system seems to be a variant of the Telstar, but not different in any way...apart from the plastic overlay of course... | | | All these features are quite weird when you know that AY-3-8500 chipset offers 6 different games and more setting options... | | | There's a 3 positions switch that controls difficulty (beginner : slow ball, big paddles / advanced : fast ball, big paddles / expert : fast ball, small paddles). |
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=665
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| | Coleco Telstar |
| | When it was originally concieved in 1975, Coleco had decided to use the General Instruments AY-3-8500 PONG chip for their own gaming machine. | | | Many variations of the Coleco Telstar followed from 1976 until 1978. | | | In 1976, the first Telstar (in a series of Telstar machines), with three games sold over a million copies. |
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http://members.shaw.ca/kaidon/cpsc509/06_telstar
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| | Secret Weapons of Commodore: The TV Game 2000K, 3000H |
| | Variant -002, for example, is in Telstar Arcade cartridge #1 and plays "road race, tennis and quick draw" while cartridge #2 contains "hockey, tennis, handball and target [practise]," and because this sounds suspiciously like the games in the TV Game, this probably contains the same TVG variant -001. | | | Thus, the 7601-001 in the TV Game series, while being programmable in a crude sense, is hardwired to generate the graphics for the TV Game series' internal games only and cannot be coerced into drawing other kinds of shapes. | | | Introduced Based on Commodore's MOS acquisition, the appearance of the Telstar Arcade and Pong's twilight, the TV Game series most likely appeared around 1976. |
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| | Coleco |
| | E.T. was actually one of 2 Atari games (the other was the 2600 version of Pac-Man) that was mainly responsible for the Video Game Crash of 1983. | | | I can't remember if it was for Atari or Coleco though. | | | Anybody here remember a video game console called Coleco? |
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http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=14945.0
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| | ClassicGaming.com - Features |
| | Baer also played a major role in the success of Coleco's Telstar home TV game console, which paved the way for Coleco's dominant position in the videogame industry of the early 1980s. | | | I ran out of the room and stuck one of those ferrite rings on the output lead of the Telstar machine, and bingo!" | | | Other companies didn't receive full shipments of game chips, and as a result, Telstar enjoyed great success when it was released. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/cgexpo2000/baerkeynote/baer_d.shtml
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| | mycoleco |
| | In 1982, while Atari and Mattel were busy trashing each other's products, Coleco released the superior ColecoVision with Donkey Kong as the pack-in. | | | Accessories included a steering wheel (with gas pedal) and a 2600 adapter that let you play Atari 2600 games on your ColecoVision. | | | Most Coleco games were solid arcade ports, usually almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and quickly became the hardcore videogamers' system of choice. |
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http://vgcollect.freehosting.net/mycoleco.htm
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| | Coleco Telstar Arcade Cartridges |
| | Telstar Combat - Joystick based system that played variations on Kee Games' "Tank" | | | Telstar Colortron - Four games, in color, built in sound | | | Telstar Alpha - Four games (hockey, handball, tennis, jai alai) |
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http://bopedia.com/en/wikipedia/c/co/coleco_telstar_arcade_cartridges.html
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| | Gaming Faction - Clones of Consoles |
| | Coleco decided to take a gamble and clone the Atari 2600. | | | Though it had less games than the Coleco Telstar it was still a hit. | | | Sold for 19,800 Yen, the Othello Multivision had 8 new games made for it which are abviously also compatible with Sega's SG-1000 models. |
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http://gamingfaction.bravehost.com/consoleclone.html
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| | Telstar - Wikipedia |
| | For the Coleco games see Coleco Telstar Arcade Cartridges | | | The name Telstar is used to this day for a number of television broadcasting satellites. | | | It relayed its first television pictures (of a flag outside its ground station in Andover, Maine) on the same day. |
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| | Pelikonepeijoonit - Coleco Telstar Arcade |
| | By then advanced game machines such as the Fairchild Channel F & Atari 2600 & Bally Astrocade and Odyssey^2 were already out and the Telstar Arcade died instantly which caused Coleco a 27 million dollar loss. | | | We worked on the Arcade and several other Coleco games of that year. | | | I also worked with them on a whole range of interactive video disk based game products that never made it all the way to production because Coleco's ADAM computer was a big flop and virtually killed the company...and aborted all of of those neat things on which we were working with them." |
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http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi-bin/page.cgi?pkpcode=telstararcaade
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| | PROGRAMMABLE CONSOLES |
| | An add on peripheral that allowed the user to play Atari 2600 game carts on the Intellivision II. | | | A redesigned Atari 2600 for the Japanese market | | | A Coleco Gemini clone which in turn is an Atari 2600 clone |
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http://www.geocities.com/decpdp1/consoles.html
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| | Weird Info |
| | Atari never counted on the Game Brain to sell in large numbers; rather, it was designed as a way to get rid of all the dedicated game CPUs that they thought would be obsolete with the release of the then-forthcoming VCS. | | | Basically, the Game Brain was a cartridge-based system, with its game library to consist of "Atari's Greatest Dedicated Console Hits." The unit had the paddle controllers built onto the machine itself, and an area near the top of the console where game instructions could be stored for quick and handy reference. | | | Magnavox Odyssey (1972) THE very first home game system, released in 1972 and designed by Ralph Baer of Sanders and Associates. |
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin/ATARI/OTHER/weirdinfo.html
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| | Nintendo Entertainment System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Although the game had been produced without Nintendo’s permission or support, Atari took its release as a sign that Nintendo was dealing with one of their major competitors in the market. | | | ↑ Atari broke off negotiations with Nintendo in response to Coleco’s unveiling of a unlicensed port of Donkey Kong for their Coleco Adam computer system. | | | Super Mario Bros. 3, with 17.28 million copies sold, is the best-selling video game never packaged with a console system [1]. |
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| | Gaming Systems |
| | But there are some instances where a gaming system is essentially just a barely upgraded form of a predecessor (like the Coleco Telstar and Coleco Telstar Marksman) which would not be worth doing two of. | | | But the Playstation and Playstation 2 are different in many ways (a completely different kind of game is produced for them) so I'd say do both separately, which I will do. | | | I will do Coleco Telstar (with Marksman), Colecovision, Arcadia 2001, Sega CD all of the Ataris and Sega Saturn as well. |
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http://www.annoyatorium.com/tm.aspx?m=178751
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| | Vidgame.net: Coleco Home |
| | In 1984 they gave a free Cabbage Patch doll away with the purchase of a Colecovision and game. | | | By the 1950's Coleco had begun making plastic moulds and above ground swimming pools. | | | Coleco had picked up Xavier Robert's 'Little People' and marketed them into the Cabbage Patch Kids. |
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| | Carlisle Media Site - Content |
| | Electromagenetic games like "Speedway," made by Chicago Coin, may seem archaic by today's standards, but it was popular in the early 1970s. | | | But it was Atari that made the biggest splash in both the home arcade market. | | | The Coleco Telstar Arcade, released in 1976, offered the best equipment of that time period — a wheel and a gear box. |
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| | Retrocactus.com: Consoles - Colecovision |
| | It didn't have a power supply or any games but the controllers were in pretty good shape. | | | The same Salvation Army that had the Coleco Telstar also had a Colecovision in the "AS IS" bin for $5 so I picked it up. | | | I never had a Colecovision when I was a kid but a few of my friends did and I always wished I had one. |
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http://www.retrocactus.com/consoles/colecovision.html
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| | - Two players - 6 AA batteries or 9VDC * Telstar Alpha: - 4 games - built-in sound * Telestar Arcade: - 3 Triangle carts:# 1-Road Race/Tennis/Quick Draw # 2-Hockey/Tennis/Handball/Target # 3-Bonus Pinball/Shooting Gallery/... | | | * Telstar Colortron: - 4 Games - Runs on 2 9Volt batteries or AC Adapter - Sound comes from Unit * Telstar Marksman: - in Color - 6 games with 2 moving target games. | | | A microchip called the "AY-3-8500", made by General Instrument in 1975?, was THE chip that Coleco installed in their "PONG" system and that many manufactuers did based their systems on this chip, more than 75 other companys had issued similar video game units. |
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http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/faqs/pong.txt
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| | Pac-Man board game NCrew phonecard Atari 2600 games (loose) : Tron Deadly Discs, Sky Jinks, Shark Attack, Starmaster + some common doubles The Secret of Monkey Island (Sega CD) Tiger Q*Bert Arcade Games table top (cheap-o) Aug 19th Lots going on. | | | June 17th Thanks to Petri, we got some more Jaguar games, Theme Park being one of them. | | | Some links had gone bad, so fixed them (Thanks to KA for pointing them out) June 19th Received mail from mr. |
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http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/olds2001.txt
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| | History for Coleco |
| | Do not duplicate or redistribute in any form. | | | The company introduces the Coleco Adam home computer. | | | Company originally founded as Connecticut Leather Company by Maurice Greenberg to sell leather supplies to shoemakers. |
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http://www.mobygames.com/company/coleco/history
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| | My Coleco Telstar & other brand name Pong Collection |
| | Next Generation of the one above right - forget wood, go plastic!! | | | Just when I thought I had all the Telstars I found this one!! | | | My Coleco Telstar and other brand name Pong Collection |
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http://members.shaw.ca/pcollard/pong2.htm
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| | Telstar - PONG : Coleco Telstar |
| | Telstar Records hit the ground running in 1985. | | | Telstar Region High School serves students in five communities in Oxford County.At Telstar Regional High School children come first and it is our goal to | | | The Ben Vaughn Combo boasted the criteria that has become Telstar’s stock in trade. |
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http://bewinning.com/?q=telstar
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| | CVG Nexus: Features: CVG News: Press Releases |
| | He also worked on using a 5-inch version of the RCA Select-A-Vision videodisc player which was to interface with Coleco's ColecoVision system and Adam computer. | | | In addition to Odyssey, Baer was the creative force behind the Coleco Telstar(tm) Arcade system, Milton Bradley's Simon(tm), Coleco Gemini(tm) system and Coleco Kid Vid(tm) peripheral for the Atari 2600. | | | He has licensed products to numerous companies such as Milton Bradley and Coleco. |
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http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/nexus/features/news/pr/cge1999_02.shtml
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| | Pongs and Handhelds |
| | Quiz Wiz by Coleco w/cart #1 and quiz book..........$10.00 |
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| | Coleco Telstar Arcade |
| | Cartridge number 4 had Naval Battle, Speed Ball, and Blast Away. | | | This was actually three controllers built in to one console - pong, shooting, and driving (also the only 1970's console to have a steering wheel and gear shift). | | | The most advanced of the 1970's "pong" type units, designed by Ralph Bear (the father of consoles and creator of the odyssey unit) for Coleco. |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/gamingmuseum/telstararcade.html
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| | deBlip.com - Video Game Center |
| | The shape of the console was in a triangle, hence allowing for the three inputs. | | | In my opinion, the Telstar had more potential than any other system from its era. | | | The Telstar had three excellent input methods built into the console. |
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| | Coleco telstar ranger - AtariAge Forums |
| | Lots of Games And a 7800 for sale BIG LIST 5200, 7800, 400/800, commodore 64, Coleco, Intellivision and Texas Instruments | | | I haven't paid more than $7 for any of the pong units I have. | | | Of course none of those came with boxes and they don't have a gun accessory like the Telstar Ranger does. |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=52185
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| | Obsolete Computer & Video Game Collection |
| | I would like an authentic Atari Pong system, and perhaps also a Coleco Telstar. | | | Excellent condition with controllers still velcroed into holders. |
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| | CyberRoach Magazine #6 |
| | Intellivision: the old keyboard (computer), with PlayCable adapter (cable program was available in Canada and a few select US Cities), Japanese Bandai Bandai version with Soccer game, new ECS Computer (for Intv II) and Keyboard, Draughts (= Checkers). | | | Coleco Telstar Arcade - with the funky triangular cartridges! |
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| | FA: Coleco Telstar Ranger Free discussion |
| | Please be respectful to interlocutors, don`t use oath, don`t abuse capital letters, don`t publish advertising and also materials violate netiquette. | | | RYXI > Games > FA: Coleco Telstar Ranger 29 Mar 2005 06:15:37 |
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http://www.ryxi.com/games/13-390-fa-coleco-telstar-ranger-read.shtml
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| | Coleco Telstar Ranger |
| | In box (kinda rough, but still sturdy) with Manual and styrofoam insert and Coleco RF switch. |
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| | Armchair Arcade |
| | Despite being a glorified pong system, it managed to display color when the RCA Studio II - another contemporary - didn't. | | | The Telstar's unusual and versatile control panel, featuring knobs, a steering wheel and a light gun, makes it a unique system. |
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| | Coleco Telstar Arcade |
| | Here's the Closet Collection's original box for this Telstar Arcade (strangely enough, this unit has never been used, since the RF adapter and shift lever are still sealed in their plastic bag -- that's why the shift lever is not shown installed on the unit in the photo above) | | | Send mail to KC with questions or comments about this web site. | | | The Telstar Arcade is one of the earliest cartridge-based systems. |
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