Entex Adventure Vision

Control is through a single multi-position joystick and two sets of four buttons, one on each side of the joystick, for ease of play by both left- and right-handed players. Rather than using an LCD screen or an external television set like other systems of the time, the Adventure Vision uses a single vertical line of 40 red LEDs combined with a spinning mirror inside the casing. This allows for an effective screen resolution of 150 × 40 pixels. The mirror motor draws a great deal of power from the batteries, which can be avoided by using the built-in AC adapter.{{cite news |last1=Gechter |first1=Frédéric |title=Entex Adventure Vision - tu es si fragile ! |url=https://www.rom-game.fr/news/2414-Entex+Adventure+Vision+-+tu+es+si+fragile+!.html |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=www.rom-game.fr |date=December 22, 2016 |language=fr}}

Entex released four Adventure Vision games, all of them ported from arcades:

• Defender, originally by Williams Electronics
• Super Cobra, originally by Konami
• Turtles, originally by Konami
• Space Force, originally by Venture Line (similar to Asteroids)

• CPU: Intel 8048 @ 733 kHz
• Sound: National Semiconductor COP411L @ 52.6 kHz, headphone jack
• RAM: 64 bytes (internal to 8048), 1K (on main PCB)
• ROM: 1K (internal to 8048), 512 bytes (internal to COP411L), 4K (cartridge)
• Input: 4 direction joystick, 4 buttons duplicated on each side of the joystick
• Graphics: 150x40 monochrome red pixels
• Expansion port{{cite news |last1=Combs |first1=Jim |title=ADVENTURE VISION: A History of Entex and the rarest Tabletop system |url=http://www.videogametrader.com/archives/features/adventure_vision.htm |access-date=24 May 2022 |work= |issue=2 |date=February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717200042/http://www.videogametrader.com/archives/features/adventure_vision.htm |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• Dimensions: {{Convert|13.25|x|10|x|9|in}}{{cite web |title=Entex Adventure Vision |url=https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg80-entex.htm#page=reviews |website=Video Game Console Library |access-date=24 May 2022}}

A similar display technique combining red LEDs with a moving mirror was used by Nintendo in the 1995 Virtual Boy.

Because of the moving parts used by the system, many units no longer work, with an estimated 100 known operational units left.{{cite news |title=Bit Museum #4: what the hell is an Entex Adventure Vision? |url=https://www.destructoid.com/bit-museum-4-what-the-hell-is-an-entex-adventure-vision/ |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=Destructoid |date=16 July 2009 |language=en-CA}}

On March 31, 2013 at the Revision demoparty, the first-ever homebrew/demo ROM for the system was demonstrated[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61201 Revision 2013 demoparty entry on pouet.net] by MEGA - Museum of Electronic Games & Art. MEGA also released{{Cite web |url=https://mega.folderflex.com/sharefolder/MEGA/Adventure+Vision/id/51896 |title=Open Source Adventure Vision development kit including demo source code |access-date=2014-05-01 |archive-date=2021-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903200940/https://mega.folderflex.com/sharefolder/MEGA/Adventure+Vision/id/51896 |url-status=dead }} the source code for the demo as well as all development tools.

The system is supported by the MESS emulator and AdViEmulator.[https://web.archive.org/web/20180422063011/https://mega.folderflex.com/sharefolder/MEGA/Adventure+Vision/id/80892 AdViEmulator, a specialized Open Source Adventure Vision emulator]

• Vectrex

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg80-entex.htm#page=reviews Video Game Console Library]
• [http://www.thegameconsole.com/entex-adventurevision/ TheGameConsole.com]
• [http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Entex/AV.html Handheld Games Museum]
• [http://www.adventurevision.com/ AdventureVision.com]
• [https://www.miniarcade.com/entex/av.htm Mini-Arcade.com]
• [http://www.gamesdatabase.org/system-entex_adventure_vision Games Database.org]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101020072401/http://www.gameover.nl/oud/consoles/avision.htm Picture and some information about Entex Adventure Vision] (Dutch language)
• [http://www.adventurevision.net/ Information about the first Adventure Vision demo and the making-of] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810151931/http://adventurevision.net/ |date=2020-08-10 }}
• [https://archive.org/details/adventurevision_library Adventure Vision games] playable for free in the browser at the Internet Archive Console Living Room.

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