Coleco Telstar

Mais outra consola da 1ª geração raríssima. Teve muito pouco lançamento e muito pouco sucesso no mercado, esta consola teve 14 versões também cada uma delas com jogos embutidos e nem um jogo para comprar individualmente, a maior parte dos jogos eram apenas versões diferentes do Pong. Provavelmente algumas versões nem sequer chegaram a sair para o mercado.

Uma imagem do chip AY-3-8500.

Esta consola e todas as suas versões contavam com o chip AY-3-8500 da General Instrument, os gráficos e a jogabilidade nela não mostravam nada de especial.

Aqui deixo as imagens de cada uma das versões:


Coleco Telstar



Coleco Telstar Classic


Coleco Telstar Ranger



Coleco Telstar Deluxe



Coleco Telstar Alpha



Coleco Telstar Colormatic



Coleco Telstar Sportsman


Coleco Telstar Colortron



Coleco Telstar Marksman



Coleco Telstar Combat



Coleco Telstar Galaxy



Coleco Telstar Gemini


Coleco Telstar Arcade

As especificações de cada uma das versões:

. Telstar - (model 6040, 1976) Three Pong variants (hockey, handball, tennis), two paddle controllers fixed on console. This was the very first game to use the AY-3-8500 chip.[1]
. Telstar Classic - (model 6045, 1976) Same as the Telstar, with deluxe wood case.
. Telstar Deluxe - (1977) aka "Video World Of Sports", same as the Telstar but brown pedestal case with wood panel, made for Canadian market with French and English text.
. Telstar Ranger - (model 6046, 1977) Four Pong variants (hockey, handball, tennis, jai alai) and two gun games(target, skeet), black and white plastic case, includes revolver-style light gun and separate paddle controllers. Uses the AY-3-8500 chip.
. Telstar Alpha - (model 6030, 1977) Four Pong variants, black and white plastic case, fixed paddles. Uses the AY-3-8500 chip.
. Telstar Colormatic - (model 6130, 1977) Same as the Telstar Alpha but with detached wired paddles as well as color graphics. Uses the AY-3-8500 game chip and the Texas Instruments SN76499N chip for color.
. Telstar Regent - (model 6036, 1977) Same as the Telstar Colormatic but no color and black and white case.
. Telstar Sportsman - (1978) Similar to Telstar Regent, but with an additional light gun and different setting switches.
. 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 Colortron - (model 6135, 1978) Four Pong variants, in color, built in sound, fixed paddles, uses AY-3-8510 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.
. Telstar Galaxy - Separate joysticks and fixed paddles, uses AY-3-8600 game chip and AY-3-8615 color encoder.
. Telstar Gemini - (1978) Four pinball games and two light-gun games in color, light gun, two flipper buttons on left and right sides of case, pinball launch button and field adjustment sliders on top, light gun, uses a MOS Technology MPS 7600-004 chip.
. Telstar Arcade - Cartridge-based, triangular case includes light gun, steering wheel with gear shift, and paddles, one on each side. Each cartridge includes a customized MOS Technology MPS-7600 chip. The chip contained custom logic circuits driven by a basic processor which ran a very small program stored in ROM.

Não há muito a dizer sobre esta consola, pois foi mais uma das consolas raras e com pouco sucesso no mercado.