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Gameroom Tele-Pong
Manufacturer	Entex Industries
Type	Dedicated home video game console
Release date	1976
Lifespan	1976-?
Units sold	Unknown
Display	TV
Mass	Unknown
Predecessor	Unknown
Successor	Unknown

The Gameroom Tele-Pong (sometimes also called Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong or ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong) is a dedicated first-generation home video game console developed, published and marketed by Entex Industries starting in 1976.^[2]^[3] It had a price of US$60.^[4] The Gameroom Tele-Pong displays the games in black and white. The score is built in the console. It has no sound.^[2] The Gameroom Tele-Pong is similar to the first Japanese video game console, Epoch's TV Tennis Electrotennis, released a year prior.^[why?]

The console does not contain a central CPU but uses 8 dicscrete SN74LS00 chips. It is only battery-operated (1.5V "C" cell x 4).^[5]

There was also a version released in the United Kingdom marketed by Binatone called the TV Game Unit.^[6] It had a price of £23.95.^[7]

References

^ TV games turn your set into a sports arena, By William J. Hawkins, Popular Science, Nov 1976, Page 91, Table: ...Entex / Tele-Pong / $60 / Tennis, table tennis, handball, practice / Digital scoring, sound, skill selector, (H-V movement on table tennis)...
^ ^a ^b ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong, OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum
^ Vox. "Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong is a video game console". Vox Odyssey. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
^ TV games turn your set into a sports arena, By William J. Hawkins, Popular Science, Nov 1976, Page 91, Table: ...Entex / Tele-Pong / $60 / Tennis, table tennis, handball, practice / Digital scoring, sound, skill selector, (H-V movement on table tennis)...
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201075922/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/forum.asp?c=1041&st=1 ^{[bare URL]}
^ "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum". www.old-computers.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-01.
^ "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum". 2023-06-01. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-09-12.