Its controllers were built onto the system, and included 4 directional buttons, a paddle, and a fire button. Games would be inserted in the top of the system by opening a door, and the door had a small instructions booklet on top of it.
The system was never supposed to be a huge seller for Atari. Instead, the system was just their way of clearing out their CPUs from their unsold dedicated consoles.
Noting this, Atari cancelled the Game Brain. Today, only 3 Game Brain consoles are known to exist, as well as 5 prototype cartridges. Coleco Telstar Ranger Screenshots. It came with 6 games, two paddle controllers and a gun. Tennis, Squash, Soccer, Practice and two gun games. This was the first Telstar released to have a completely different design from the original. It was also the first to include detachable controllers. Released in a few months after the release of the Fairchild Channel F, it would have been the first programmable console Fairchild beat them to the release gate.
The console was doomed from the start. The lack of a color display and control paddles made the unit old and dated. Atari Video Pinball Screenshots. Atari Video Pinball Released February In , Video Pinball appeared as another Atari coin-op to stand-alone home console translation by bringing the game Breakout to home players.
Offered first in the late 's Atari "first edition release" standard wood grain also to be used on the Atari and then a second edition white molded plastic model. Bumper controllers on the sides or a dial on the front were used to control the games depending on the game selected.
There were three game types - Pinball, Basketball, and Breakout. Interestingly enough, Atari did follow up with an actual Video Pinball coin-op, two years after the release of their home console.
It was a unique hybrid between video game and pinball technology that still has not been duplicated to this day. While some before and after tried using the video game part as a game within the game or simply to display unique animations such as Baby Pacman, or the more recent Star Wars pinball hologram effect model , this was the first to actually use both technologies as an integral part of the game play.
Atari Stunt Cycle Screenshots. Atari Stunt Cycle Released March All the thrills and chills of real stunt motorcycle riding right in your home living room, so much fun Evil Knievel must have had one! Stunt Cycle originally was an Atari arcade coin-op, then made into a stand-alone console shown here. The original coin-op had been released in to take advantage of the then popular motorcycle stunt man Evel Knievel. Originally a motorcycle salesman who began doing stunts to draw attention to his store, by the early 70's he was a household name.
Atari 's coin-op attempted to capture the feel and fun of the stunt jumping Evel Knievel was famous for, and was a mild success. Stunt Cycle gave the player a first person feel of riding a motorcycle, even though the image on the screen wasn't first person. You could jump cars and buses, if you played with the controls just right you could jump right off the screen, lots of fun!
Coleco Telstar Combat Screenshots. The console was a modest success but due to having too many similar dedicated console products, Coleco nearly went bankrupt in Telstar Combat was one of Coleco 's attempts to break away from the Pong game video game rut.
It's certainly unique, no other company manufactured a dedicated console with such elaborate controls. The console plays four variations of a tank battle game, very similar to the Atari Combat game cartridge.
Atari Video Pinball Model 2 Screenshots. It basically played the same games as the earlier wood grain version. The Pinball and Basketball games in this version were slightly updated. Coleco Telstar Alpha Screenshots. They managed to grab a huge share of the early home video game market partly through good marketing their original Telstar console was half the price of Atari's Pong and partly through good luck Coleco was the only company that got their full shipment of the popular microchip that everyone used to manufacture their home Pong systems in late The Telstar Alpha model was released in It is a classic from Coleco , and uses the AY game chip.
The system plays 4 games in three difficulty levels. Like the first Telstar, this system was sold in large quantities as it was cheap. It was also released in Europe as the "Telstar Alpha Europa". Magnavox Odyssey Released May While not the first electronic game, the earliest form of an electronic ping-pong game dates back as a game played on an oscilloscope, by William A. Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in His game was titled Tennis for Two.
The Odyssey , and were arguably the most advanced dedicated PONG console systems of the 's. It is similar to the offering the same games in a newly styled, more modern case. The Odyssey also featured detachable controllers which allowed more freedom when playing. This was not a feature on the Odyssey model.
In three years, the technology had completely changed the PONG universe. The Odyssey featured 8 exciting games in full color. The console also featured real joysticks like those offered on other console models. After the Odyssey , Magnavox goes on to release a completely different system known as the Odyssey 2, also known as Videopac in Europe. This system was designed to compete with Atari and Colecovision cartridge based game consoles.
Atari VCS Screenshots. It was originally known as the Atari VCS, for Video Computer System, and the name " Atari " taken from the unit's Atari part number, CX was first used in , after the release of the more advanced Atari When Fairchild learned of Atari 's naming they quickly changed the name of their system to become the Channel F.
Atari expanded the family with two other compatible consoles. Magnavox Odyssey As the first home console ever, the Odyssey ran on batteries and games came on removable circuit cards, not cartridges. The Odyssey tragically lacked sound capability, but that was later rectified. Also looks uncannily like a defibrillator. Atari Pong While the Odyssey used separate electronic components for its chip system, the Atari Pong used in integrated circuit on one chip - or in simple speak: it was the most complex chip for home use at the time.
Thinking they could turn a mighty profit that Christmas, Sears offered to help produce enough units to meet a healthy demand. Thusly, they became the exclusive retailer of Pong. Magnavox Odyssey Ralph Baer - the creator of the Odyssey - wanted to improve on his original design and signed a contract with Texas Instruments they make killer graphing calculators.
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