Gameroom Tele-Pong

{{Short description|Home video game console}}

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| name = Gameroom Tele-Pong

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| manufacturer = Entex Industries

| type = Dedicated home video game console

| releasedate = 1976[https://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tele-Pong+Entex&pg=PA91 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)...

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| lifespan = 1976-?

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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.[https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1041&st=3 ENTEX Gameroom Tele-Pong], OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum{{Cite web|url=https://www.voxodyssey.com/gameroom-tele-pong/|title=Entex Gameroom Tele-Pong is a video game console|last=Vox|website=Vox Odyssey|language=en|access-date=2019-06-17}} It had a price of US$60.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tele-Pong+Entex&pg=PA91 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)... The Gameroom Tele-Pong displays the games in black and white. The score is built in the console. It does have sound. The Gameroom Tele-Pong is similar to the first Japanese video game console, Epoch's TV Tennis Electrotennis, released a year prior.{{Why|date=September 2024}}

The console does not contain a central CPU but uses 8 discrete SN74LS00 chips. It is only battery-operated (1.5V "C" cell x 4).https://web.archive.org/web/20230201075922/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/forum.asp?c=1041&st=1 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

There was also a version released in the United Kingdom marketed by Binatone called the TV Game Unit.{{Cite web|title=OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum|url=https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1041|website=www.old-computers.com| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201075922/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1041 | archive-date=2023-02-01 }} It had a price of £23.95.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-01 |title=OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |url=https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=1040 |access-date=2024-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601055153/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=1040 |archive-date=2023-06-01 }}